Another community building CR boxes for schools!
“There’s not much that we can do about the air quality outside. But being able to create our own safe haven indoors is what we can do to actually have control and autonomy over our own health.”
www.imperialvalleyweekly.com/news/seeley-...
How new science, real-time monitoring, and smarter engineering are reshaping school air quality – and what it means for kids’ health and absenteeism.
A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools.
www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
As the early surge in the so called
“super flu” further stresses health care systems across the UK, a GP and co-founder of Clean Air Advocacy Ireland is calling for officials to better communicate that flu can be spread through the air.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
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.
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.
Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
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
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...
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
canary pins on the lapel of a suit
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.
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...
People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN
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!
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...
"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. "
7 vaccines for Airborne Diseases : Morbillivirus (Measles) Mumps virus Rubivirus rubellae Bordetella pertussis (Whooping cough) Corynebacterium diphtheriae Streptococcus pneumoniae (Meningitis) Haemophilus influenzae de type b (Meningitis)
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
Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
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...
New Scientist article screenshot - Health Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three By Michael Le Page 11 29 April 2025
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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‘I’m sick of being sick’: Call to fix air quality in schools and childcare A group of 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. By Cate Macintosh April 29, 2025
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
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...
Photo of a small comic book. Cover reads "Clean Air in Your School and Everywhere!" and shows a cartoon drawing of a Corsi-Rosenthal Box with a face, plus two children dressed as super-heroes, all flying through the clouds.
Instructions on how to fold the comic into eight segments. A small cut is then made in the centre of the longest cut, allowing the entire sheet of paper to be folded into an 8-page booklet, or 'zine.
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!
Screen grab of research paper title “Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 theconversation.com/the-role-of-...
Full article. 16th April 2025
The role of carbon dioxide in airborne disease transmission: a hidden key to safer indoor spaces
“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
Article screenshot Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records
📌 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...
First page of a scientific article on the effects of a natural experiment showing the positive effects of ventilation on cognitive performance among college students.
Increased ventilation leads to better cognitive performance among university students. Imagine that.
COVID, it's AIR-BORNE! @carlzimmer.com.
'Stuffy, crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks.'
Solutions exist, but mean spending money to protect us all.
www.thegrindmag.ca/airborne-dan...
Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school The proportion of children chronically absent from school has doubled since we removed airborne protections and pretended the pandemic was over. Picture: Larry Cummins
Research now shows over 70% of Sars-CoV-2 household transmission started with children in schools.
5 years on from Covid's arrival what are we doing about airborne infections?
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
