WORKSHOP: Building Community and Individual Resilience to Extreme Heat and Cold

We would like to invite you, your colleagues, friends, and neighbors to participate in our Fisk University Environmental Program’s Virtual Community Workshop: Building Family and Community Resilience to Extreme Heat and Cold”. This workshop will be held Tuesday evening September 19, 2023, from 6:30-8:00pm on ZOOM.

Our most recent discussions have focused on mitigation of the rate of climate change and its devasting impacts. In this workshop we focus on adaptions strategies that communities and families can take to increase their resiliency to the impacts of climate change. Areas of focus include:

• Applicable hazards and their      potential impact

• Impacts of Extreme Heat and      Extreme Cold exposure on Health

• Nashville Heat Watch Campaign      and lesson learned

• Metro Nashville Climate and      Resilience Action Plan(under development)