BOOKSHELF 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 would recommend
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 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
BOOKSHELF 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
TRANSPORT 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
AIR 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
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 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
AIR 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