WCH is an important phenomenon to understand because it is a proposed risk factor for the development of sustained hypertension (SH), target organ damage (TOD) and possibly the occurrence cardiovascular (CV) events. It is still not clear what risk is conferred by WCH and whether it warrants treatment. 1 – 4 Despite this, there are considerable gaps in our understanding of WCH.
There has been a growing recognition of this phenomenon since it was first noted over three decades ago, and it now features in both national and international hypertension guidelines. The experience helped inspire him to launch the nonprofit NDN Collective in 2018, which will offer grants and fellowships to indigenous activists and educators to “defend, develop, and decolonize” Native nations - supporting efforts to counter resource extraction, expand access to renewable energy, and return to indigenous traditions.White coat hypertension (WCH) describes a blood pressure (BP) phenotype present in untreated individuals with elevated clinic BP, but normal out-of-office values. “There was an appetite to fund and support the movement.” The development project will be one of the nation’s first net-zero energy communities, with 100-percent water reclamation in 21 single-family homes, a 12-unit apartment building, and a community center.Īt Standing Rock, “so many indigenous people were alive again, reborn again,” says Tilsen, who chained himself to an excavator to stop construction. He was working to create a “regenerative community” that builds its own sustainable housing and produces its own energy and food on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline erupted in 2016, Nick Tilsen was the founding director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. Reames says his lab studies “the connection between energy, race, and place.” He’s applying that blend of environmental justice, civil engineering, and public administration to find other ways to promote clean-energy equity - and, crucially, savings. (It also sparked a similar study in the Twin Cities.) And it inspired one of the largest utility companies in Illinois to expand its discount-bulb distribution to underserved neighborhoods. The research, modeled after similar studies on food deserts, exposed the challenges of going green in low-income communities. The conversation sparked a pioneering investigation and a study published last year finding that, in higher-poverty neighborhoods, the gap between prices for traditional and energy-efficient light bulbs was twice as large. Nearby stores, she told him, “only have the squiggly ones, and they cost too much.” A tenant in his rental property asked him for light bulbs. One day while working with his students at the University of Michigan’s Urban Energy Justice Lab, Tony Reames mentioned a phone call he received years earlier. Without further ado please dive into the stories of these ambitious, relentless, and brilliant people. We know, we know, just get to it already. These people may look different, come from different places, and take varying approaches to their work, but they have one thing in common: They know that a better future is possible - and they’re making it happen. In Gryou’ll meet amazing urban planners and architects, scientists, a behind-the-scenes creator of the Green New Deal, a city sustainability director, a photographer, a podcaster, and an artist using murals and augmented reality to spark new conversations around climate change. The overwhelming response to our call for Fixers (that’s what we call these folks) tells its own story: There are thousands of people out there, across many disciplines, who can inspire us all.
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