Story: How to Beat the Heat Island Effect
Episode: 3
Presenter: Darren Seinor
Air Date: 18th December 2022

Darren tells you how you can play your part and shares his tips and tricks to combating the Heat Island Effect in your own backyard!

• Heat islands are urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas.
• Structures such as buildings, roads, and other infrastructure absorb and re-emit the sun's heat more than natural landscapes. Highly paved areas around homes add heat.
• Scientists say the “urban heat island” effect, which can raise temperatures in cities by several degrees compared with their surroundings, could be a risk to human health as growing urban populations exacerbate the heating effects of climate change.
• Trees, shrubs, green roofs, vegetation, and a cooling lawn can help reduce urban heat island effects by shading building surfaces, deflecting radiation from the sun, and releasing moisture into the atmosphere.
• To keep a cooling garden, you need to get your soil right. By amending your sandy soil into a mineral-rich loam with Soil Solver’s Clay Plus Minerals you can reduce your watering requirements by 50%. Healthy plants have a greater capacity to survive heat events.
• Soil Solver has the only Kaolin Clay product meeting Australian Standards enabling homeowners and business premises to economically shade their premises, growing healthy plants to cool your environment.
• A minimum of 10kg per sqm Clay Plus Minerals will give you the recommended 5% Kaolin Clay, silt, and minerals you need for healthy soil.

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www.soilsolver.com.au