We Care for Our Air: Project Update
On 13th September 2024 Amanda Newton posted in News, Projects
Air pollution remains a significant concern, affecting communities nationwide, including Redbridge. In response, Redbridge Council has been driving a comprehensive program aimed at monitoring, raising awareness, and ultimately reducing air pollution in the borough. The “We Care for Our Air” initiative, running until March 2025, is a critical part of this effort, consisting of a series of initiatives designed to tackle air pollution head-on.
Continue reading…Brr-eathe Easy: We Care for Our Air Winter Update
On 19th January 2024 Karissa Johnson posted in News, Projects
It has been a bustling winter so far for the We Care for Our Air project, entering the new year with a lot of momentum.
Three months of diffusion tube data have now been plotted onto Redbridge’s borough Air Quality Map, thanks to the 78 residents and organisations helping to monitor air pollution at places they care about, including Cllr Sunny Brar of Newbury Ward.
Continue reading…Redbridge Cares for their Air Quality
On 26th September 2023 Karissa Johnson posted in News, Projects
It’s been six months since the launch of We Care for Our Air Redbridge, a project aimed at understanding air quality in the borough. During this time, the community has come together to make commitments to support cleaner air.
We Care for our Air Redbridge has two strands to tackle the issue of air pollution head-on. Firstly, is our citizen-led data collection effort using NO2 diffusion tubes and hand-held particulate monitors. The second part of our mission is all about raising awareness and educating the community about the risks of air pollution. We focus on what actions each person can take to avoid pollution and improve the air in Redbridge.
Continue reading…Science in the City Returns…
On 17th August 2021 Hannah posted in News, Projects, Uncategorised
What impact has the air pollution reduction measures introduced by the City of London Corporation over the past six years had? That’s what we’re aiming to find out! Levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide can be a concern in urban areas. Both air pollutants are associated with fuel combustion; transport and heating.
Continue reading…D-Noses London Pilot – Mapping Odour in The Royal Docks
On 14th February 2020 Maria posted in Projects
Project partners in the UK, Europe and further afield are working with affected communities to co-design citizen science projects to map the odour issues and embrace the ‘power of many’ to reliably monitor odour. In tandem, we are working with odour emitting industries, regulators and researchers to explore possible actions to address odour.
Continue reading…Kampala City Air
On 4th January 2019 Louise posted in Featured, News
2018 has been a rather epic year in terms of our work on air quality. We supported the largest ever distribution of nitrogen dioxide monitors deployed by school students in Barcelona and ended the year with our first project in Sub-Saharan Africa, more precisely, Uganda.
Launch of Breathe Clean!
On 7th March 2018 Ruben Douglas posted in Featured, News, Uncategorised
What is Breathe Clean?
Tower Hamlets council, in partnership with Mapping for Change, is providing residents and businesses in Tower Hamlets with diffusion tubes to measure nitrogen dioxide in the places that matter to them.
Ten years of citizen led air quality monitoring in London
On 26th July 2017 Agnes posted in News, Projects, Training
Air pollution is now fully acknowledged to be a significant public health problem, responsible for a growing range of health effects that are well documented.
Achieving the right public attitude, awareness and behaviour by the use of optimal air pollution monitoring, forecasting and reporting will go some way towards creating a healthier environment.
Love Lambeth Air Final Event
On 18th May 2017 Agnes posted in Events, Featured, News
We have now come to an end of the six month monitoring period of our Love Lambeth Air project.
Mapping for Change, for Lambeth Council, has been providing diffusion tubes to Lambeth residents and businesses to measure nitrogen dioxide outside their home or office over the course of six months from October 2016.
Overall we had 30 participants monitoring 34 sites across the borough of Lambeth from Waterloo to West Norwood. The wide spread of monitoring was only made possible with thanks to the volunteer surveyors who every month changed the diffusion tube outside their home or office and returned the old tube for it to be processed in the lab for analysis. The results from the six months of monitoring will be made available on the Community Air Quality Map.
Mapping for Change’s Barbican project in The Crowd and the Cloud
On 27th April 2017 Maria posted in News
We are excited to share this video with you about our Air Quality monitoring project in the Barbican Estate, City of London.
The video shows how the concern of local residents about air quality around their homes was developed into a citizen science project, thanks to Mapping for Change and the City of London. For twelve months, Mapping for Change worked with residents to measure local air quality levels in this centric estate and to produce measurable data. Continue reading…