An environmental activist and educator resides in a largely Mexican American area of south-central Phoenix, where segregation once forced Black and Hispanic people to live south of the railroad tracks
PHOENIX — Reggie Carrillo knows firsthand that where you live can determine how hot your neighborhood gets.
Carrillo has benefited from one of several nonprofit initiatives popping up around the United States to educate and engage residents about climate-fueled heat that disproportionately affects low-income neighborhoods of color. Gray, cool and drizzly much of the year, the Pacific Northwest roasted with triple-digit temperatures during an unusual heat wave last summer that was blamed for numerous deaths. The temperatures in Oregon and Washington state soared back up into the 90s this summer, a sign that global warming has created a new normal for hot weather in the region.
They distributed "Seedlings" coloring books designed by local artists with messages in English and Spanish in the heavily Hispanic Fairhill neighborhood and organized public art workshops on designing shade structures and mural painting in racially diverse Grays Ferry. "There is a lot of learning all of us need to do, and not just people living in these neighborhoods," said Franklin, noting that organizers learned from community members that they often sleep with closed windows on hot summer nights due to concerns about crime.
"We are trying to help people to work on solutions that will cool down their neighborhoods over the long term," said Anna Bettis, the healthy cities program director for The Nature Conservancy in Arizona. "Shade is a resource. If you just look around, you can see how unequally it is distributed in some neighborhoods."
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