7.9

Enhance communication and education around the impacts of extreme heat on human health - Increase community understanding of heat illness signs and symptoms and associated health risks; Collaborate with the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit to communicate heat warnings via email, website, social media, text, app etc.; Collaborate with partners to produce and implement a targeted heat education program for vulnerable populations including migrant workers, international students and new Canadians.

Lead: WEC Health Unit. Supporting Role: Communications; ESCC; Emergency Services; School Boards; Canadian Red Cross; Heart & Stroke Foundation; EMS; Unions; Environment Canada.

Heat Alert and Response Plan

Short-Term

$

Low

7.10

Implement the Community Energy Plan (including but not limited to the following) - Develop and implement home and building retro fit programs; Encourage a modal shift towards Public Transit and Active Transportation; Foster the adoption of electric vehicles; Continue to retrofit City of Windsor buildings to increase energy efficiency; Incentivize the use of energy efficiency technologies to decrease building energy demand. Designate and plan district energy areas; Promote and implement renewable energy generation such as solar photovoltaic energy systems.

Lead: ESCC. Supporting Role: Planning; Facilities; Engineering; Asset Planning; Community Energy Plan Task Force; Transit Windsor; School Boards; Private building owners.

Community Energy

Plan, Corporate

Climate Action Plan,

Community

Improvement Plans

Short-Term

$$$$

High

7.11

Incorporate native and/or drought tolerant plants into public and private landscaping - Educate the public about the benefits of native plants including drought tolerance, water retention attracting pollinators etc.; Review and encourage the selection of species more resilient to a changing climate; Encourage the selection of plants that are more mature and larger with deeper root systems; Explore native plant demonstration gardens in public spaces.

Lead: Parks; ESCC. Supporting Role: Essex County Field Naturalists; Friends of Ojibway Prairie; ERCA; DRCC; Private Landowners; Nurseries; Carolinian Canada; St. Clair Horticultural; CEA.

Parks Master Plan,

Environmental Master

Plan, Landscape

Manual

Short-Term

$

Low