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As someone who's spent one too many days in NYC's sweltering concrete jungle summers, praying to the gods for a cross-breeze through my apartment's windows doesn't always cut it. Even when I've done the good greenie thing and have piously renounced energy-zapping AC—turning on a fan only on the most unbearably hot days.
Trust me when I say I've learned to get creative when it comes to staying cool—and alive—during the stickiest, sweatiest, most sizzling summer months.
Here are seven tricks of the trade to keep you—and the planet—cool and collected.
