Tag: Media
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Data Centres, AI, Urban Heat, and Community Action comes together in Western Sydney
We are witnessing a data centre boom all across the globe and increasingly in Australia. Driven by growing demand for AI and digital services, data centres rely on heavy infrastructure and energy-intensive cooling systems. They attract billion-dollar global investment and in NSW, are being moved quickly through planning pipelines. This process has left limited clarity…
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Report Released: Summer Survey 2026
Summer Survey 2026 Reveals Millions Forced to Ration Cooling During Record Heat The Cost of Keeping Cool is Making Australians Sick Sweltering Cities has today released the findings of its 2026 Summer Survey, exposing a national health crisis driven by the rising cost of keeping cool. With data from over 2,600 respondents across 766 postcodes,…
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Extreme Heat Awareness Day 2026: Here’s how it went
On February 4th 2026, we marked the second Extreme Heat Awareness Day. It was the biggest ever national action on heat in Australia, and it happened because of people like you. Launched by Sweltering Cities and the Australian Red Cross, Extreme Heat Awareness Day brings people together for a powerful national conversation about the growing impacts…
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Australia’s biggest community heat survey launches ahead of dangerous 2025–26 summer
Sweltering Cities has today launched the Summer Survey 2026, Australia’s largest community survey on heat, health and homes, calling on people around the country to share their lived experience of rising temperatures and dangerous heatwaves driven by climate change. The survey collects qualitative and quantitative data on how people manage extreme heat; from cost-of-living pressures,…
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Sydney’s Busted Bus Stops: Read our Campaign Report
Thanks to your dedicated efforts in mapping over 2500 bus stops across, capturing photos of busted stops, and sharing personal stories about the challenges of using unsafe, unsheltered stops, Sweltering Cities has published a report with our key findings and recommendations from the Busted Bus Stops Campaign! Here are some of our results that demonstrate…
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‘Call your Nan’: When it’s hot it’s time to check-in on friends and family
MEDIA RELEASE: Call your Nan: New heatwave safety campaign asking people to check in on friends, family and others in the heat to save lives This year on January 27th, the deadliest day for heat-related deaths in Australia, we’re calling on people to help keep their loved ones and community safe. Sweltering Cities’ new heat…
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Sweltering Cities partners with Sydney University on Heat Stress Scale App
Sweltering Cities working with The University of Sydney’s Heat and Health Research Incubator on their Heat Stress Scale project. Did you know that more people die from heat related issues than all other natural disasters combined? Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a way to reduce loss of life and heat related illness and…
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Interview with Barbara Schaffer, GANSW Principal Landscape Architect
To celebrate National Tree Day, Sweltering Cities spoke to Barbara Schaffer, Principal Landscape Architect for GANSW (The Government Architect NSW), about designing liveable cities that ensure the health and wellbeing of communities. Barbara’s role involves guiding policy and advocacy to enable landscape architects to positively contribute to healthy, resilient and sustainable places. As a landscape…
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VIDEO: Sweltering Cities speaks to author Jeff Goodell on his new book ‘Heat: life and death on a scorched planet’
On 18 July 2023 our Executive Director Emma Bacon spoke to American author Jeff Goodell about his new book ‘Heat: Life and death on a scorched planet’. Watch their conversation here and let us know what you think. Read more of Jeff’s Goodell’s work here. About the book: “Extreme heat is the most direct and…
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Sweltering Cities joins 100 organisations calling for 7 Star homes
The way we build homes now will decide how safe people are in the extreme heat of our future. We need to increase minimum standards so that safe, sustainable housing isn’t only a luxury. We signed on with 100 organisations to a statement from sustainability organisation Renew to support higher building standards in the National…
