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A “heatshed” moment for communities in crisis | Ladd Keith | TEDxUofA
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-04 16:31
[Applause] [Music] In the summer of 2021, a record-breaking heat wave struck the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. What became known as the Pacific Northwest heat dome buckled roads across the region and melted light rail wires in Portland, Oregon. Homes that had been intentionally built with those large windows to capture sunlight on those rainy Pacific Northwest days suddenly turned into ovens, leaving the residents scrambling to cover those windows with tarps or newspapers, um cardboard, whatever the ...