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Permalink Reply by Hussain on March 9, 2017 at 20:23

The City of London Corporation and King's College London have launched version 2.0 of the smartphone app which helps Londoners lower their impact on, and exposure to, air pollution.

Users can sign up for air pollution alerts and find low air pollution routes when levels of air pollution are high in London.

The CityAir app is currently available for iOS and Android and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and Android devices.

You can view a user's video for version 2.0 for iPhone and iPad.​

It can be downloaded free of charge from the iTunes store and Google Play. A web based version is also available.

Published:15 November 2013 Last Modified:20 January 2017

Source: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/environmental-health/envir...

Try it out, its quite a useful pollution indicator, backed up by the pollution monitors, located on various streets locally, including Beech Street, Farringdon Street, Walbrook Wharf, Upper Thames Street.

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Permalink Reply by Hussain on March 10, 2017 at 22:35

Its fine having Low Emission Zone's, however that does not prevent air borne pollution from moving over boundaries, this is where the City needs to do more, the health of its residents, workers and visitors is at stake.

It is essential that the City of London issues free face masks, such as Respro https://respro.com/pg/faqs, to all City residents, our health IS more important than attracting business, importantly businesses are looking at wider factors before locating in a particular area, including pollution.

The City needs to show it cares, face masks have shown to reduce pollution related asthmatic attacks, and other illnesses, thus reducing the need to visit GP's, hospitals, and days off work, in the long run the issuing of face masks will benefit everyone.

The City is internationally renowned for its pro-business ethoses, at the same time it needs to show the UK, that not only does it generate £billions, that it cares passionately about the health of its residents, workers, and visitors.

Where the City leads, others will follow, positive action is long overdue, the cost can be reduced or totally covered with grant funding from the City Bridges Trust.

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Permalink Reply by Hussain on March 11, 2017 at 11:50

Parents should use pram covers to protect babies and young children from harmful air pollution during the school run, researchers suggest. Dr Prashant Kumar, lead study author from the University of Surrey, said his findings were a warning to parents, "Young children are far more susceptible to pollution than adults, due to their immature and developing systems and lower body weight, essentially, children could be at risk of breathing in some nasty and harmful chemical species such as iron, aluminium and silica that form together the particles of various size ranges."

The studies have shown that young children are more at risk because their bodies are small and developing, and they could be breathing in damaging substances. Bus stops and traffic lights were the worst places for being exposed to the tiny particles from exhaust fumes and tyres that can get into the bloodstream, and there were more of these harmful particles in the air during morning drop-off times, when traffic was at its busiest.

Source: Environmental Pollution

The City of London Corporation must act to ban all car traffic for at least one hour during school drop off and pick up times, this is easily enforceable. Protect our children and protect our and their future! Let their brains develop without pollution.

A recent World Health Organization report said that 570,000 children under the age of five died every year from illnesses that could be linked to pollution.

Air pollution is a major contributor to ill health in the UK, UK scientists estimate that air pollution cuts British people's lives by an average of six months!

The City of London Corporation has neglected air pollution for too long, it is getting much worse, all residents must be supplied with RESPO face masks immediately. Literature, online and printed, needs to be provided to every resident.

Every City street needs trees of suitable girth to be planted, every existing and all new buildings needs to be carbon neutral, the planning department should automatically reject developments that are not carbon neutral. Grants for solar power, ground source heat pumps/heating, wind turbines, and triple glazing, GREEN plating on sides of building, grants for community groups to plant fruit trees, balcony plants, ...

Imagine the new residential schemes, Bernard Morgan House, Richard Cloudesley School site, with green living walls...

 

Environmental studies: the schools being powered by nature

Children learn better when the outdoors comes into the classroom – and the benefits extend beyond academic achievement

Have the VISION of a GREENER living building for the Richard Cloudesley School RCS) and Bernard Morgan sites, obtain funding from the City Bridges Trust the RCS site. Force Taylor Wimpey to re-think their design...at their own cost.
Image copyright Stefano Boeri Image caption Boeri Studio's Bosco Verticale tower blocks in Milan offer a new vision of green, low energy urban living

Appliance control systems, cladding, natural cooling systems and other technologies can reduce carbon emissions by 33%. Source: Boeri Studio

A pollution free City can be a Happy Healthy Living City... Vision Green...

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