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CA-WN is taking steps to safeguard the very basics of life – the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat and the shelter we call home. Air pollution matters. It is essential to know what is in the air we breathe.

Things Can Only Get Better

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Things Can Only Get Better

Wouldn’t it be great if things could only get better. But they won’t if we carry on with ‘Business as usual’. Our headline image is taken from a recent peer-reviewed publication relating air quality (AQ) to public health outcomes1. The left image represents 2019 estimates of PM2.5

What's in our schools' air?

What's in our schools' air?

West Northamptonshire schools are being offered a free SAMHE air quality monitor and education resources. Why not sign up your school for the SAMHE project? Act now because registration closes at the end of May! SAMHE (pronounced ‘Sammy’) stands for Schools’ Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education. It is

Council Watch March 2024 - LCWIP and Air Quality Public Consultations

Council Watch March 2024 - LCWIP and Air Quality Public Consultations

Here at CA-WN we try to make a habit of both responding to relevant consultations issued by West Northamptonshire Council, and of sharing those responses with our audience. We did not respond to the recent consultations on Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) for Daventry, Brackley and Towcester as

Air Quality Statement to WNC meeting, 22 February 2024

Air Quality Statement to WNC meeting, 22 February 2024

Dave Pearson, a leading Northamptonshire campaigner for clean air, gave a statement to West Northamptonshire Councillors at their Council Meeting. Read it in full below, or watch the recording of the WNC meeting on YouTube - Dave's statement starts 17 minutes in. It's also worth watching

Council Watch - Council meeting September 2023

Council Watch - Council meeting September 2023

CA-WN watching West Northants Council for us all

Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by Sadiq Khan

Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan's interest in air pollution started on being diagnosed with asthma in his forties, when he was told by doctors that the cause was inhaling polluted air as he ran around London training for the London marathon. This is a fairly short and readable book which I

Grow a Garden to Clean the Air

Grow a Garden to Clean the Air

In nature, trees, shrubs and flowering plants of different shapes, sizes, textures and habits all grow together. In our towns and cities, plant diversity can mop up astonishing amounts of pollution from the air. We can play a part in cleaning our air by planting our gardens for air quality.

GBGW: Clean Air Day 2023

GBGW: Clean Air Day 2023

By Dave Pearson - Clean Air Northampton Yes. The 15th June 2023 was Clean Air Day. But shouldn’t everyday be a Clean Air Day? The Council, with statutory duties to ensure the good health of residents, must answer why Northampton is the town with the most polluted air in

Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley

Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley

Air pollution results in millions of premature deaths worldwide each year. This book explains how historical and ongoing human activities have resulted in air that damages our health, the different pollutants involved, and that we are still working to understand all the ways in which they affect our bodies. Tim

Walk to School Week

Walk to School Week

By Eluned Nicholls of Northampton Living Streets May 15th to May 19th was Living Streets’ National Walk to School Week in 2023. Kingsthorpe Parish Council and Northampton Town Council both offered to sponsor participating schools in their areas by buying the packs of classroom and advertising materials produced by Living

My View - Danielle Stone

My View - Danielle Stone

CA-WN gives a Councillor the space to speak about climate action

15 June is Clean Air Day

15 June is Clean Air Day

Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK every year.  The World Health Organisation and the UK Government recognise that air pollution is the largest environmental health risk we face today. 💡Local authorities must fulfil their statutory duties to make high quality, accurate air quality information available

No love for Northampton's air

No love for Northampton's air

In the week that gave us Valentine’s Day the Daily Mirror reported that Northampton is the worst town for its particulate matter (PM) air pollution. CA-WN decided to dig deeper. The Mirror story was picked up from indoor air quality experts at HouseFresh who used PM2.5 data collected

Air Quality in West Northamptonshire

Report for the week of Guy Fawkes night: CA-WN is monitoring air quality at several sites across West Northamptonshire. The green graphs show abnormal peaks of particulate matter (PM2.5) density at CA-WN sites during the week of Guy Fawkes night 2022. For reference the blue graph is from the

CA-WN's Air Quality Monitoring Project

Air pollution matters. No one likes bad smells but airborne particles can damage human health so it is important to know what is in the air we breath. For Northamptonshire there is just one official site for measuring air pollution. This project complements official measurements with real-time outdoor, hyper-local readings