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AC / DC: Unequal Access to Air Conditioning, with Kelly T. Sanders (Rebroadcast)

AC / DC: Unequal Access to Air Conditioning, with Kelly T. Sanders (Rebroadcast)

Update: 2024-08-12
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This week, we’re rebroadcasting an episode from the Resources Radio archive while the team is on a break through the rest of August. We’ll be back in September with new episodes; in the meantime, enjoy this throwback and poke around the archive at Resources.org for more topics you might be interested in.

In this week’s episode rerun, host Daniel Raimi talks with Kelly T. Sanders, an associate professor at the University of Southern California. With her coauthors, Sanders published a series of studies on air-conditioning use in southern California, with a focus on who does (and does not) have access to cooling on hot days. This work, which touches on issues of energy and environmental justice, has big implications for managing climate change in the decades to come.

References and recommendations:

“Utilizing smart-meter data to project impacts of urban warming on residential electricity use for vulnerable populations in Southern California” by Mo Chen, George A. Ban-Weiss, and Kelly T. Sanders; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6fbe/meta

“Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities” by Vaclav Smil; https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/growth

“These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore; https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393357424
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AC / DC: Unequal Access to Air Conditioning, with Kelly T. Sanders (Rebroadcast)

AC / DC: Unequal Access to Air Conditioning, with Kelly T. Sanders (Rebroadcast)

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