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chief heat officer

Published: June 22, 2022 | Updated: August 16, 2023

The position of Chief Heat Officer was created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Some responsibilities of a city’s CHO is to bring awareness to any extreme heat risk and the solutions with their constituents and peers. To work together on improving the planning for, and response to, heat waves.

L.A. County has been identified as the USA’s most vulnerable city to several natural hazards, including heat waves.

pathways:

Heat.gov / Extreme Heat Current Conditions and Future Outlooks

21.06.2022 / Smithsonian / Los Angeles Becomes Latest City to Hire ‘Chief Heat Officer’

03.06.2022 / CBS Los Angeles / Marta Segura appointed as Los Angeles’ first Chief Heat Officer

21.11.2021 / NBC News / ‘An invisible hazard’: Warming cities hire chief heat officers to tackle growing threat

Nature is the original artist. Everything else is a response.

The Frame That Started Everything
Pale Blue Dot — NASA Voyager 1, 1990
Pale Blue Dot NASA Voyager 1 · 1990
1
Frame
195
Countries
8.3B
Human Beings
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

From 3.7 billion miles away, Earth is a pale blue dot.

Up close...

it's a tide

a forest floor

a field of spring flowers

Earth Week Photo Journal | April 19 - 25
One week.
One white frame.
One collective exhale.

This upcoming Earth Week, Project White Frame is seeking artists, land stewards, and community members to document and celebrate what they love in their everyday Nature. The ask is simple: find a part of Nature you love — or something designed to protect it — and surround it with a white frame.

Somewhere along the way, Earth Day became a marketing tagline. A limited-edition product drop. This event is a small act of reclamation, designed to remember the why...

Nature is the art.
The white frame is a mark of unity.
A border that says: This matters. Look here.
Remember this...
How to Participate
Find: a part of Nature you love or something designed to protect it.
Frame: it with a white frame. Get creative, a frame is anything that supports the subject.
Share: why it matters #ProjectWhiteFrame2026
Earth Week · April 19–25, 2026
Project White Frame
Find. Frame. Share.
Documentary Camera Initiative Earth Week · April 19–25, 2026
frames@framesforchange.org