{"id":374765,"date":"2026-10-16T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374765\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:42:44","slug":"houses-of-worship-in-new-york-city-prepare-for-growing-climate-threats-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374765\/","title":{"rendered":"Houses of worship in New York City prepare for growing climate threats \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transcript:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a disaster strikes, churches, mosques, and synagogues often provide relief and a safe place to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cummings: \u201cReligious communities \u2026 are places that people turn to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Lucy Cummings of New York Disaster and Interfaith Services says many houses of worship are themselves vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change, including flooding and extreme heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And many of the buildings are old and inefficient and cost a lot to heat and cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So last year, her group launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydis.org\/nyc-how-climate-ready-audit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC House of Worship Climate-Ready Audit Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It provides houses of worship with free inspections to assess their energy efficiency, heating and cooling systems, drainage, emergency preparedness, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each congregation gets a report with ways to improve resilience and save money. And they can apply for a small grant to start the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says the program reaches diverse congregations across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cummings: \u201cWe worked with a mosque in Brooklyn, a Lutheran church in Staten Island, a Seventh-Day Adventist church in the Bronx, a Pentecostal church in the Far Rockaways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So these trusted institutions can be better prepared to help the people who depend on them in a crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting credit: Sarah Kennedy \/ ChavoBart Digital Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: When a disaster strikes, churches, mosques, and synagogues often provide relief and a safe place to go.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,24,11,10,901],"class_list":["post-374765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}