Pavement can add to the urban heat island, so some schools in California are ripping it up and planting trees for shade.
The State of California announced plans to spend $47 million to convert pavement into green space with trees to provide shade and cooler spaces at schools.
"Much of this land is paved and unshaded, leaving vulnerable students across the state exposed to extreme heat," said Alejandra Chiesa, California state director for Green Schoolyards America."We applaud California and CAL FIRE for creating this much-needed and unprecedented grant program which will bring nature to school grounds, improving students’ education and mental and physical wellbeing while strengthening their communities’ ecological health and climate resilience.
"For cities, which are densely composed of lower albedo surfaces, this means more intense heatwaves and higher air temperatures — a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect," said the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. "As a result, many cities have begun to increase the reflectivity of one of their most abundant surfaces: pavements."
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