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Introducing the Climate + Health Resilience Collections on GBIG

By Adele Houghton on 26 Sep 2013 • 4 minute read

Extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods do not affect everyone equally. Some populations are more at risk than others of disease, injury, and death because of the unique combination of social, economic, demographic, and environmental characteristics of the …

Number of LEED Certified Projects in Travis County (2001-2012) Overlaid on Austin Heat Vulnerability Index

As World Heats Up, Heat Map Tells Us Who is Most Vulnerable

By Sean McMahon on 18 Jun 2013 • 2 minute read

It has been widely reported that 2012 was the hottest year on record in the continental United States. This year has not been much different with NOAA recently reporting that not only was June 2013 one of the hottest month's of June ever, it represented the 340th straig …