Cool Island Neighborhoods, West Mesa River Community

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Cool Island Neighborhoods is a community-based grassroots movement to change hot spots to cool spots through neighbors helping neighbors. The help can come in the form of a phone call to check on an elderly neighbor, help with planting trees, or setting up a sprinkler for the neighborhood kids. The movement has developed the following focus:

  • A grassroots movement to organize + build cool spots (islands)
  • Provide relief from the heat through community tree planting + more
  • Engage + empower communities to come together + join in neighborhood movement creating cool spots for increased comfort
  • Improve health and wellbeing

Join the movement!

Levels of engagement

Cool Island Neighborhoods welcomes all levels of engagement. This ranges from listening and learning to becoming a heat champion and advocating for urban heat solutions in your community.

Inform Give information to the community

Consult Give feedback on ideas, proposed projects, areas that are already cool, places that could use some shade

Cooling Champion Advocate for urban heat solutions in your neighborhood

Cool Island Neighborhoods is a community-based grassroots movement to change hot spots to cool spots through neighbors helping neighbors. The help can come in the form of a phone call to check on an elderly neighbor, help with planting trees, or setting up a sprinkler for the neighborhood kids. The movement has developed the following focus:

  • A grassroots movement to organize + build cool spots (islands)
  • Provide relief from the heat through community tree planting + more
  • Engage + empower communities to come together + join in neighborhood movement creating cool spots for increased comfort
  • Improve health and wellbeing

Join the movement!

Levels of engagement

Cool Island Neighborhoods welcomes all levels of engagement. This ranges from listening and learning to becoming a heat champion and advocating for urban heat solutions in your community.

Inform Give information to the community

Consult Give feedback on ideas, proposed projects, areas that are already cool, places that could use some shade

Cooling Champion Advocate for urban heat solutions in your neighborhood

West Valley Heat Stories

Heat is a challenge for many of our neighbors, but their heat stories often go untold. Here we want to hear your heat stories. This is a place for us all to learn about or neighbors experiences with heat.

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Page last updated: 12 Oct 2021, 03:53 PM