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Gave PC Fan air filters we built to 25 teachers in Charlottesville and surrounding areas,
Gave PC Fan air filters we built to 25 teachers in Charlottesville and surrounding areas,
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I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
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Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
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Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
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Air-quality reforms in China have slashed concentrations of fine particulates by nearly half since 2013, preventing an estimated 2.2 million premature deaths annually. New analysis from the University of Chicago shows the average citizen now lives 2.9 years longer. buff.ly/EJeLqjd
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy
Despite significant increases in particulate pollution (PM2.5) in many regions of the world, global pollution has declined since 2013. That decline is due entirely to China’s success in steeply…
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October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Air-quality reforms in China have slashed concentrations of fine particulates by nearly half since 2013, preventing an estimated 2.2 million premature deaths annually. New analysis from the University of Chicago shows the average citizen now lives 2.9 years longer. buff.ly/EJeLqjd
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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New research alert! “Do-It-Yourself Air Purifiers: Educator Attitudes and Perceptions in a K-12 Public School District” Read more to learn about the @crfoundationus.bsky.social box and its use in a Connecticut school district: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New research alert! “Do-It-Yourself Air Purifiers: Educator Attitudes and Perceptions in a K-12 Public School District” Read more to learn about the @crfoundationus.bsky.social box and its use in a Connecticut school district: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Not sure if the canary pins will be made widely available at some point (I hope so!) but you can keep an eye on www.airclub.org
Air Club
A global coalition aspiring towards healthy indoor air.
www.airclub.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Not sure if the canary pins will be made widely available at some point (I hope so!) but you can keep an eye on www.airclub.org
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The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
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To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Pledge
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September 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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Latvia deploys 14,000 CO2 monitors to schools, at a cost of 12 Euros per student.
Launched by the Ministry of Education, this data is freely available to the public.
seetheair.org/2025/07/31/l...
Launched by the Ministry of Education, this data is freely available to the public.
seetheair.org/2025/07/31/l...
Latvia’s Model for Healthy Learning: The MESH Air Quality Project
Latvia has successfully deployed 14,000 CO2 monitors in hundreds of schools, ensuring safer and healthier learning environments for students and teachers. This nationwide initiative, launched by th…
seetheair.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Latvia deploys 14,000 CO2 monitors to schools, at a cost of 12 Euros per student.
Launched by the Ministry of Education, this data is freely available to the public.
seetheair.org/2025/07/31/l...
Launched by the Ministry of Education, this data is freely available to the public.
seetheair.org/2025/07/31/l...
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"All students should have the right to mask. All students should have the right to clean classroom air. All students should have a right to participate in college without risking Long COVID. "
Stephanie Castaneda Perez, a Stanford history alum who has been living with #LongCOVID for two years, writes about the ways universities are failing their students when it comes to COVID-19 and Long COVID. bit.ly/4eAk7j5
July 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"All students should have the right to mask. All students should have the right to clean classroom air. All students should have a right to participate in college without risking Long COVID. "
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In France, 7 of the 11 mandatory vaccines concern airborne diseases. They are so effective that we had forgotten that many viruses and bacteria are transmitted through the air we breathe.
Infographic available in our 24-page booklet on airborne diseases: letsair.org#mediation
Infographic available in our 24-page booklet on airborne diseases: letsair.org#mediation
June 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
In France, 7 of the 11 mandatory vaccines concern airborne diseases. They are so effective that we had forgotten that many viruses and bacteria are transmitted through the air we breathe.
Infographic available in our 24-page booklet on airborne diseases: letsair.org#mediation
Infographic available in our 24-page booklet on airborne diseases: letsair.org#mediation
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Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
Last May, the state passed a law that would fine residents for sharing air quality data that did not meet strict standards.
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May 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
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Thanks to Amudalat Ajasa for this story about the significant benefits of CR Boxes for wildfire smoke particles and other indoor aerosol particles (including virus-laden respiratory aerosol particles, pollen, mold, particles from cooking, etc.).
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
These DIY air purifiers could make clean air more accessible during wildfires
Homemade air purifiers can filter air faster, making them an affordable alternative to more expensive commercial products.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thanks to Amudalat Ajasa for this story about the significant benefits of CR Boxes for wildfire smoke particles and other indoor aerosol particles (including virus-laden respiratory aerosol particles, pollen, mold, particles from cooking, etc.).
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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Using independent, third party data Safe Air Schools has also evidenced that commercial air filters can be provided per child, per year for less than the price of a pizza.
Ht @jneill.bsky.social @housefresh.bsky.social
#AirPollution #Pollen #Pathogens
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#AirPollution #Pollen #Pathogens
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April 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Using independent, third party data Safe Air Schools has also evidenced that commercial air filters can be provided per child, per year for less than the price of a pizza.
Ht @jneill.bsky.social @housefresh.bsky.social
#AirPollution #Pollen #Pathogens
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Ht @jneill.bsky.social @housefresh.bsky.social
#AirPollution #Pollen #Pathogens
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NZ: "A group of New Zealand doctors, teachers, academics and principals are urging the Government to improve air quality in schools and childcare centres to reduce Covid-19 and other air-borne illness."
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
April 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
NZ: "A group of New Zealand doctors, teachers, academics and principals are urging the Government to improve air quality in schools and childcare centres to reduce Covid-19 and other air-borne illness."
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
Source: archive.md/2OOFa
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Q: "Is the air we breathe safe?" by @kprather.bsky.social and Barsanti, new editorial in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A: "Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...
A: "Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...
Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds (Gift Article)
Weakening or rolling back longstanding environmental regulations would worsen the problem, the American Lung Association assessment says.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Q: "Is the air we breathe safe?" by @kprather.bsky.social and Barsanti, new editorial in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A: "Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...
A: "Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...
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Our new #CleanAir for Schools 'zine is ready! This pocket-sized comic is ready now as a FREE download on our website: linktr.ee/cleanairbcsc... Just print, fold, cut! (see attached instructions) And give them out to everyone! 😃 We are actively seeking translators, please DM!
September 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Our new #CleanAir for Schools 'zine is ready! This pocket-sized comic is ready now as a FREE download on our website: linktr.ee/cleanairbcsc... Just print, fold, cut! (see attached instructions) And give them out to everyone! 😃 We are actively seeking translators, please DM!
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April 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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“Outdoor CO₂ levels are around 421ppm but in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces, indoor levels can easily exceed 800ppm. That’s the tipping point identified in the study, where the air starts allowing droplets to maintain a lower pH increasing the survival time of viruses”
Ht @ukhadds.bsky.social
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April 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Outdoor CO₂ levels are around 421ppm but in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces, indoor levels can easily exceed 800ppm. That’s the tipping point identified in the study, where the air starts allowing droplets to maintain a lower pH increasing the survival time of viruses”
Ht @ukhadds.bsky.social
Ht @ukhadds.bsky.social
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📌 New Research
🔹 11 April 2025
“Here we show that children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes […] compared to uninfected controls”
#SafeAirSchools
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔹 11 April 2025
“Here we show that children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes […] compared to uninfected controls”
#SafeAirSchools
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📌 New Research
🔹 11 April 2025
“Here we show that children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes […] compared to uninfected controls”
#SafeAirSchools
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔹 11 April 2025
“Here we show that children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes […] compared to uninfected controls”
#SafeAirSchools
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increased ventilation leads to better cognitive performance among university students. Imagine that.
April 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Increased ventilation leads to better cognitive performance among university students. Imagine that.