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standing as our animals. Why
is it that we'll rescue a stray
animal off the street but not
think about buying a fellow
human a meal, or at least a
nice cold jug of water? Check
out my friend Jon Linton's The
I Have A Name Project for a
good reminder on the impor-
tance of practicing compas-
sion.
I left the streets feeling both
grateful and heartbroken.
When I got back to my car, I
broke into tears, overwhelmed
with emotion.
I needed more umbrellas.
A quick crowdfunding cam-
paign (https://www.indiegogo.
com/projects/for-the-love-of-
shade) generated the means
for me to purchase 150 more
umbrellas that several volun-
teers helped me pass out on a
Sunday afternoon. This is my
idea of church…
Now, nearly one year later,
I still see the red umbrellas
around town on occasion and
it almost makes me cry every
time. If any of you have ties to
an umbrella manufacturer or
want to buy me several thou-
sand umbrellas that would be
ridiculously awesome. And I'm
serious.
Heat related illness and death
is bound to increase in the
years to come from what stud-
ies such as this one tell us.
According to another study,
"Heat waves, commonly de-
fined as a few consecutive
days with high temperature
above a certain threshold, are
the leading cause of weather-
related mortality in the United
States" (Davis et al. 2003).
Even more alarming, the night-
time temperatures are going
to increase in Phoenix accord-
ing to a new Arizona State
University study published in
the journal Science of the Total
Environment.
Cities (including Phoenix)
would be wise to get their
Climate Change Adapta-
tion Plans in place quickly if
they haven't been done, start
busting butt on minimizing the
urban heat island effect and
work much harder to decrease
greenhouse gas emissions.
Speaking of which, a Wash-
