Welcome to The Buffer Project

The climate crisis is here. Alongside hotter summers and rising sea levels, we are only beginning to understand the health challenges it brings. Communities everywhere are already facing new stresses: from heatwaves that push our bodies to the limit, to shifting disease patterns, to the knock-on effects of food insecurity and air quality. These challenges compound one another and must be tackled together, yet coordinated responses are still largely lacking.

Why We’re Here

Our mission is simple: to help communities build resilience to climate-related health challenges. That means exploring practical, evidence-informed ways for people to buffer themselves against stress - whether that stress is environmental, physiological, or social.

Where We’re Starting

Our first step is to engage the community in exploring practical, accessible ways to strengthen resilience to climate-related health challenges. This could include nutrition strategies, lifestyle adjustments, modifications to the built environment, and understanding the evidence while monitoring what works. Everything will be approached transparently, with results shared openly so the community can learn together, adapt, and take informed action.

Why This Matters

This is just one step, but it points to something bigger. Climate change will keep testing us. Communities need more than slogans; we need tools, knowledge, and transparency. If we can show that it’s possible to do rigorous, open science together, then we can begin to build a culture of resilience — one where people feel agency in the face of global shifts.

What’s Next

This blog will chart our progress. Here you’ll find:

• Context — why climate and health are inseparable

• Science explained simply — what heat shock proteins are, why supplements may (or may not) help

• Updates from the trial — transparent, step by step

• Reflections on resilience — beyond supplements, toward broader community health strategies

  
  

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. The Buffer Project is one small effort to meet it with honesty, creativity, and community.

— Peter