Tag: Air Conditioning

• September 30, 2025

  Too Hot to Learn: Cooling Argentina’s Overheating Schools

  

  In many countries, schools are seeking other solutions due to the purchase and operating costs of AC, combined with an electrical grid that cannot handle demand from these devices and suddenly shuts down. There are ways to reduce dependence on AC: changing the buildings, and changing the cities they exist in. But these are not…
• July 15, 2024

  Beat the Heat: How US Workers Are Winning Fans, AC, and Even Heat Pay

  

  In 2022, the latest year for which we have data, 43 U.S. workers lost their lives to heat on the job. That’s up from 36 in 2021, and we can expect this cruel number to keep climbing. But from warehouses to coffeehouses to construction sites, workers using solidarity and creative action—even without the protection of a union…