We are setting up for the Cleaner Air, Healthier Lives Summit at the Welcome Collection, focusing on how the health service and local authorities can help create healthier environments for all 💚 #CleanAirDay Join in ⬇️ bit.ly/4eyl8ru

It's #CleanAirDay 2024. The ☀️ is shining. It's the perfect day to🚶‍♀️or🚴‍♀️instead of taking the🚗 But walking, wheeling and cycling needs to be safe and easy for everyone, everyday. Please sign and share and tell the next government you want clean air 👇 cleanairhub.org.uk/clean-air-day

#CleanAirDay is a time to reflect on just how devastating air pollution is: ⚫️2,000 children die every day due to air pollution ⚫️It is the #2 biggest risk factor for death ⚫️Up to 43,000 deaths per year in the UK

Great to see some of the initiatives happening at the Trust to support sustainable & active travel this #CleanAirDay. We’ve had bike checks, showcased cycle to work and electric car club schemes, and had a PT session, to name just a few 🚵⚡️🚶

You heard them! 🚶‍♀️🚴💚

"My children love their school but it’s on a main road. I worry that #AirPollution is harming their bodies & brains in a place that should be nurturing them. I want a government that believes breathing #CleanAir is a human right for everyone." Kate, London. #Vote4CleanAir

It’s been less than a hundred years since women in Britain have had the right to vote. This Manchester banner was unfurled in 1903 - it would be 25 years before the suffragettes’ dream was finally realised. Make sure you use that hard-won right today!

No #PhotoID but did an excellent job encouraging passers by to go in and vote #dogsatpollingstations #GeneralElection2024

This is good news: the London-wide #ULEZ has reduced #AirPollution more than it was projected to. It's a great step towards cleaner air & healthier children, but we still need more action until London’s air no longer makes any children sick. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The hidden lifelong legacy of childhood #AirPollution exposure. New research shows that the damage from air pollution breathed as children may only manifest in adult life. My latest piece for The Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I'm curious - how do social scientists working in the NGO sector get 'official' ethical approval for research studies? Does anyone recommend an independent ethics panel? Practical advice needed! Please RT #researchethics #socialscience 🙏

Just 2 months to go🗓️before the start of tree planting season🌳 If you'd love a new tree in your street... ...just visit @treesforstreets📱and if we're working in your area📌 you can request to donate a new tree and pledge to take on the watering🚿 🌳👉treesforstreets.org

🍃 Want to know more about air pollution? Where does it come from? 🌬️ How does it affect health? And what are the most equitable solutions? We’re delighted to support this course with Imperial College London: imperial.ac.uk/school-public-…

Really exciting results from seven 'nature prescribing' pilot projects that have been taking place since 2020 across the UK. "After taking part in the schemes, people’s feelings of happiness and of life being worthwhile jumped...while levels of anxiety fell significantly" 💚

🎉Participatory Engagement Toolkit released! New tool to help conservationists work alongside local communities and indigenous peoples. Blog: tinyurl.com/mr8c4zzm Toolkit: tinyurl.com/2p9wbwdf Cambridge Conservation Initiative BirdLife International ACCESS Network SCB Social Science Working Group Natasha Constant

A new ACCESS Network report highlights how the UK can accelerate its journey to #NetZero #FollowtheSocialScience identifying 3 key steps & 8 recommendations. ACCESS | Making a Net Zero Society: Follow the Social Science (accessnetwork.uk) 🧵1/9

.Mums For Lungs 👏👏👏 You can use their template to write to your council today 👇

Your Friday reminder to get outdoors in #nature with small people this weekend. Fascinating and troubling findings from Professor Helen Dodd Exeter Med School into how little time pre-school girls spend playing adventurously outside compared to boys🌳

On 07 Nov 24, we have successfully launched the first hybrid symposium for our GW4 Air Network with 38 participants. 58% of our researcher members are ECRs. We covered 10+ disciplines through lightning talks. If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together!

PHD OPPORUNITY - Excited to announce this NERC DTP project on environmental and health impacts of residential wood burning in the GW4 area, co-supervised by lakaka and Dr Lucy Anderson . 📅: OPEN NOW till 13 January 2025. bit.ly/3UZGPsD