Building Resilience: Greening, Heat & Urban Trees

Resilient communities use urban forestry to prepare for extreme heat events. Trees and vegetation can reduce heat by shading buildings, pavement, and other surfaces to prevent solar radiation from reaching surfaces that absorb heat, then transmit it to buildings and surrounding air. This is the fourth event in the 2020-21 North Bay Forward “Building Resilience” monthly speaker series, a year-long conversation to increase community collaboration on resilience to climate change.