Reduce Urban Heat with Depaving

What is depaving? Cate Mingoya-LaFortune, the Chief Officer of Climate Resilience and Land Use at Groundwork USA, describes how this satisfying process of removing layers of asphalt can benefit the environment by reducing urban heat island effect and making flooding less likely! Neighborhoods will host depaving parties to tear up the asphalt on an unused plot of land using crowbars and sledgehammers. Once the asphalt is gone, they reseed the land so it can grow with beautiful trees, bushes and flowers!