I talked to community members about air pollution – theory and some practical ideas about mitigation. First, lets remember the Clean Air Wins campaign up above: I started with some questions: Almost everyone didnt believe they had a pollution problem – not in their area, no, no, no!I talked about Ella Kissi-Debrah and her mum …
November 2023 [heres the text of my opening presentation -images to be added soon] Welcome welcome!thank you for coming along to the social model and more festival with theatre deli Im caroline mawerthe festival curatorim a skinny white woman, age 60, with short brown hair and big purple glasses. im she/ her. In this first, opening …
bad effects of fine particulate matter PM2.5 and ozone multiply up. Through the intersection of existing inequalities in health, structural racism, and other forms of discrimination, climate change acts as a threat multiplier, exacerbating existing drivers of poor health for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Yesterday was the hottest day in the history of the World.Tomorrow, I fear, will be an even hotter hottest day The hot hot hot nights in between the hottest days give you no time to breathe no time to rest no time to count our dead. 66,000 dead from heat last year in Europe. Many more …
Shape Open 2023 has the theme Open All Hours and this above is my submission.For several decades I’ve been Open All Hours to a torrent of diagnoses and disabilities. Even with the Social Model, each new diagnosis needs time, both practically and emotionally. Time for the worry that inevitably comes alongside an uncertain future with degenerative diseases. Time …
There are lots of free and freely available air pollution monitoring systems that could tell you.Before you choose which system is best for you, please remember that there is no safe level of air pollution.The English guideline levels are set at much dirtier – which means riskier – levels than those from the World Health …
Theatre Deli are making a tarot deck and asked me to contribute some of my art.I told them I don’t believe in tarot. And they said: we don’t either, we just want to make some art Which of course I’m up for!I chose to do the Moon card. Apparently, the moon “is a card of …
Indoor air pollution is “typically around six times worse than outdoor air pollution, even in major cities“.Most people spend most of their time indoors. And those at most risk from air pollution – children, and people with pre-existing conditions – spend even more time indoors. But there’s much less advice about indoor air pollution. Partly …
Our London Climate Action Walk air quality walk ended at the Dickens Museum – on the left above:Image above right shows the nearby Airscape monitor – results below: This location was partly chosen because of the dirty air exhibition on there at the moment.Bleak house was set in the dense dirty fog of Victorian London: …