BECOMING ARIZONA
By 2100, Sacramento is expected to feel much like Phoenix. What can we do now to prepare for that hotter future?
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Part One: This Arid Life
As Sacramento heats up, how might our landscape change in the coming decades?
Part Two: Lessons from Phoenix
How Phoenix tracks, confronts, and reduces heat-related death and illness, what we can learn from them, and the challenges that remain.
Part Three: Urban Heat Islands
These islands are no escape. They arise in our most disadvantaged communities. It’s time to stop thinking about trees as beautification and more as a health and social equity solution.
Part Four: Cooling Sacramento
Low-carbon cooling in a warming city.

Part Five: Triple Threats in Triple Digits
How climate change, COVID-19, and racism intertwine, and what a warming city can do about it.