May 31, 2024

Newsletter May 2024

Preparation for Water Experiments at University in Makeni
On May 22, 2024, Dr. Ye Tao and the MEER Freetown team visited the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology campus in Makeni to share MEER's groundbreaking work and to explore new collaborative opportunities with the university.

Summary coming soon...

Download Summary

Video coming soon...

Other Resources

Cool Down Freetown!

Cool Down Freetown!

MEER's Founder Dr. Ye Tao arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January, to begin working with local city officials and university staff on MEER's "Cool Down Freetown!" project, the first of MEER's planned Urban Cooling project series.

March 7, 2023

Blog

Press June 2023

Press June 2023

People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are increasingly exposed to extreme heat due to climate change and the urban heat island effect, but covering homes in a reflective film significantly cut indoor temperatures

March 6, 2023

Press

MEERTALK March 2023

MEERTALK March 2023

Dr. Rupert Read sets out succinctly the case for building what has come to be called a new mass ‘moderate’ flank in climate action: reaching well beyond the ‘ghetto’ of existing activism, to those who won’t in fact consider themselves activists at all.

March 5, 2023

MEERTALK