Revelations of community heat mitigation

Revelations of community heat mitigation
Monday, January 26, 2026
6:00 p.m.
Free admission. Doors open to public at 5 p.m.

Mission Branch Library 3134 Roosevelt Avenue in San Antonio

Friends of Mission Branch Library and Gardening Volunteers of South Texas are co-sponsoring a panel discussion of local efforts to mitigation extreme heat at the residential level with water and land conservation and urban trees with local community leaders:

Nancy Parrilla and Patricia Santos of Fuerza Unida Urban Heat Resiliency Program

Kamala Platt, San Antonio environmental and community activist, poet and online professor of literary arts of Arizona State University

Marisol Cortez, writer and executive editor of Deceleration News, which regularly covers the impacts of extreme heat on the most vulnerable and community efforts to correctly record heat-related deaths.

Moderator: Adriana Rocha Garcia, PhD; president and chief executive officer of Center for Health Empowerment in South Texas; former San Antonio City Council representative of District 4 and current San Antonio Water System trustee representing its Southwest Quadrant.

Beginning at 5 p.m., Gardening Volunteers of South Texas will have information available on water-wise gardening and water conservation; along with the current San Antonio Water System programs and rebates for residential customers.

Friends of Mission Branch Library will host a post-discussion reception.

Event ends at 8:00 p.m.