Name: Climate Change & Aging: How to Protect You and Your Home from Smoke & Heat
Start: 2026-05-16T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-16T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Shoreline Tool Library

Climate Change & Aging: How to Protect You and Your Home from Smoke & Heat

As climate change brings new challenges, gain the basics of how your home works and how to make it a safer space for little to no cost.
About this Event

Protecting you and your home from the effects of climate change is going to be more and more important. In this class, students will review the basics of how their homes 'work' - from identifying critical components to how to reduce a person's exposure. Low-cost or no-cost solutions will be discussed, and simple tools will be demonstrated that anyone can build.

About the instructor, Aileen Gagney: Aileen is an architect by trade, a former general contractor, home inspector, and pest inspector. She is also a Healthy Home Specialist and is Green-Advantage Certified. She has been teaching people about their homes for over 40 years. She spent 15 years as the Director of the Master Home Environmentalist Program and, for the past 12, as the Senior Technical Advisor and Trainer for a Tribal Healthy Homes non-profit. She helps people understand how their homes work by providing simple, effective advice and solutions to make homes safe, comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient.

ACCESSIBILITY:

The venue is wheelchair accessible and has an all-gender restroom. The restroom is ADA compliant.
Non-English and ASL interpreters are not provided at our classes and events, however attendees are welcome to bring their own interpreters.
Please contact us with any accessibility notes or requests.

GETTING THERE:

By transit: Served by King County Metro bus Rapid Ride E Line on Aurora Ave N and N 165th.
By bike: The venue is located one block west of the Interurban Trail. Shoreline Light Rail stations are each about 2 miles away. A bicycle rack is available outside the building.
Car parking: There is an asphalt parking lot that fits up to 20 cars. There is one ADA van accessible parking space with an access aisle.

Children are welcome at some classes with their parent or guardian on a case-by-case basis, either as a student or as an observer. If you would like your child to attend a class with you, please email [email protected] with their age and experience. Let us know if they will be a student or an observer, the name and date of the class, and we will determine if it is appropriate.