On a sunny, quickly warming morning at the East Blair Co-Op, resident Ember Woodruff is getting a new heat pump.
She’s had a window air-conditioner for years, but it can’t keep up with Eugene’s increasingly hot summer days. She said during the 2021 heat dome when temperatures reached 110 degrees, she had to find somewhere else to stay.
“My apartment is very hot because this side of the building, the kitchen, is in the southwest corner and there’s no shade up here,” Woodruff said. ”The kitchen is brutally hot and I get all the afternoon sunlight.”…