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Creating Natural Cooling Oases for Heatwave Management
The event is done, but you can still watch the recording!
You can still access the recording of our live mini-class that happened Saturday, July 20th, 2024. Sign up here.
Come learn how to quickly create a cool, natural oasis for yourself and your neighbors by managing the land surface and soil structure in your yard, farm, or neighborhood.
Much of what we suffer during heat waves has to do with factors we can change, such as:
the amount of transpiring vegetation
the amount of shade
the color of the surface
the water-holding capacity of the soil
One example: which do you choose to step on when you are barefoot on a hot day? Pavement or wet grass?
Dark solid pavement will burn your feet–and it will continue to retain and emit heat long after the sun goes down. Whereas if you jump onto a moist grassy surface, it will cool your feet, and your body as well. Trees, grass, and other plants actually remove heat from the air, as long as the soil is managed to retain water at the root zone–like a sponge.
We can think of greenhouse gasses as the cover over a cooking pan that holds in heat, but our management of land surfaces is how we turn down the flame under the pan, even when the sun is shining, and long into the evening hours.
This means we have far more influence over the temperature around us than we think.
This free class with international educator and author Didi Pershouse will lead you through science and strategies that will help you create cooling oases to get through heat waves, and potentially even help shift regional temperatures if enough of your neighbors get involved!
Sign up here to join the online class, or get access to the recording.
If you want to dive deeper into this topic, we have regularly occurring longer courses on the topic. Check what’s coming up.