Public Health

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Resource providing public health guidance on extreme heat risks.

Please utilize Delta’s open source CAD files for Green Infrastructure Designs used to reduce flooding, manage stormwater, expand access to greenspace, and achieve other quality of life indicators. Municipalities have provided their engineers and/or landscape designers with these CAD files to streamline the design and installation process–thus reducing costs and time.

This plan was completed as part of the Beat the Heat program. The Heat Management Plan serves to organize and prioritize the efforts of the Beat the Heat Program and help inform future City plans and initiatives. The reviewed heat management strategies are organized into four categories: The Heat Response Protocol, Public Outreach, Home Cooling, […]

From 2013 – 2015, Delta Institute conducted research on waste management practices in municipalities across Cook County to identify opportunities to maximize environmental and economic benefits. As part of this research, Delta collected and reviewed waste contracts from 128 municipalities, and these contracts revealed a wide variation in services, practices, and costs. Delta created these […]

Confronting environmental change through research, education, and community collaboration

State agency providing public health guidance including climate-related health risks.

Statewide nonprofit advancing clean energy and environmental health protections.

The Environmental Protection Network harnesses the expertise of over 650 former EPA career staff and political appointees from across the country to serve as a trusted resource, answering calls for objective analysis, scientific rigor, and a vision for a transformed 21st century EPA.

Frontiers is one of the world’s largest and most impactful research publishers, dedicated to making peer-reviewed, quality-certified science openly accessible.