Heat Response & Creative Action for Philly’s Rising Temps
EcoChampions: Billy Yalowitz, Creative Arts Practice Faculty and Cheyenne Flores, City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability
Listen to community voices and help creatively amplify their lived experiences to drive policy change and achieve equity across Philadelphia neighborhoods in response to rising temperatures. Gain an understanding of the social justice dimensions of extreme heat and urban climate change.
Join a conservation with student leaders to create a space to imagine a just and abundant future with insight and tools from the PHL Office of Sustainability equity framework, community wisdom, the creative arts and cultural practice.
This event is part of a three part series, Stories of Sustainability: Act on Climate, co-sponsored with the Department of Geography and Urban Studies. Together the Temple community will connect with local community voices, scholarship, and policy to explore different strategies to organize and govern for a just climate future and seek to fulfill Temple’s urban mission.