10 Ways to Keep Your Home Cool This Summer

To protect your home from floods and fire, you can raise the house out of harm’s way or establish an ember-resistance zone around the dwelling. But how do you safeguard your home against extreme heat, an increasingly frequent climate-driven threat that now strikes historically temperate regions?

“Even here, it's definitely a leading concern,” says Chris Magwood, who’s an Ontario, Canada-based sustainable construction expert for RMI, a nonprofit that promotes decarbonization.