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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · Jun 2

Today marks the start of #VolunteersWeek. We want to say a massive thank you to all our amazing volunteers for your time, care & support for #AirPollution action.

Whether it’s brainstorming campaigns, meeting your MP, attending an event or sending out flyers, we are nothing without you! 💚 😘

A group of people stand facing the camera, with placards about clean air and saving the planet. The Houses of Parliament are in the background.

Three people stand in front of a busy road holding up a banner made of babygrows that spells out "Clean Air Now". A child is in the foreground on a scooter. Pic taken by Chris Harvey.

Two people are standing holding a placard that says "We're fighting for clean air".

A group of people, one holding a baby, stand smiling at the camera. They are at a market stall about air pollution.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · May 29

1 minute action, you know you should : )

London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · May 29

⏰ It's time for London's Mayor to Dare to Dream bigger and leave a cycling legacy for London!

✍️ Please take one minute to support our new Dare to Dream campaign asks by emailing Sadiq to take action and be bolder.

Find out more: bit.ly/43YSUC7

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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · Mar 9

Twice as many children die in car crashes than from all pediatric cancers combined. This does not count the long term health effects of breathing exhaust, brake and tire particles or the loss of physical activity and independence from living in a world hostile to traveling outside of a car.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Mar 4

Has your council declared a nature emergency?

Fantastic new resource from the Woodland Trust, @mysociety.org and @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social

100 councils have declared an emergency, 48 have evidence-based action plans and 5 are managing 30% of their land for nature.

Find out more👇

Nature Emergency

Has your council declared a nature emergency?

www.natureemergency.com

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · Feb 23

A Woonerf in the Netherlands. Through motor traffic is redirected to main roads. Greenery & street furniture (including a small playground) is strategically placed to ensure motor traffic keeps to slow speeds, with paving used & roadway raised at junctions, where collisions are most likely to occur

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Feb 24

“Over half of parents (53%) view traffic as a barrier to play… In addition to safety concerns, the rise in vehicles on the road – moving or parked – has displaced children and young people from many streets by physically occupying spaces which used to be free for them to play in”

Essential reading👇

Centre for Young Lives @cfyounglives.bsky.social · Feb 24

Today we’re publishing our Raising The Nation Play Commission interim report.

Thanks to the many people who have contributed evidence and given advice.

We set out the huge benefits of play, the barriers, and make policy recommendations.

www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

Inquiry Report Calls On The Government To Restore School Playtime Amid Warning That Play Is Being Squeezed Out Of Children’s Lives — Play Commission

The Raising the Nation Play Commission, a year-long independent inquiry into why play is critical to the wellbeing of children in England, publishes its Interim Report, ‘State of Play’. The Commission...

www.centreforyounglives.org.uk

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Feb 24

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 23

If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · Feb 21

So much this 👇

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Feb 21

a new approach.

Don't teach road safety design safe systems - on a brick wall with a silhouette of a person spray painting

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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · Feb 19

a man wearing headphones and a microphone says everything is fine

Alt: a man wearing headphones and a microphone says everything is fine

media.tenor.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Apr 13

Hybrids have always been a favourite of centrists / go-slow types.

The orange bars are what car companies claimed their emissions intensity was, and the blue bars are what their actual, real-world emissions intensity is.

Industry-wide fraud, basically.

climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...

Chart showing significantly higher real world emissions per car manufacturer roughly about 3 to 4 times for each company then their claims which are much smaller for plug-in hybrid electric cars

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · Feb 17

A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times.

"We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · Feb 17

A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times.

"We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · Feb 14

Latest emissions data has been released, showing a slight overall reduction in PM2.5 levels from domestic combustion.

However, if you live next to a wood burning household, an overall reduction means nothing because you're living in an #AirPollution hotspot. #WoodBurning www.gov.uk/government/s...

Text says "Accredited official statistics. Emissions of air pollutants in the UK - Summary. Updated 13th February 2025".

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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · Feb 14

Schools not helping. Check out this nonsense: www.hounsdown.hants.sch.uk/Parents/Cycl...

Cycling Guidelines

Applications for cycle permits may be made using the cycle permit application form

www.hounsdown.hants.sch.uk

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · Feb 6

#WomensFreedomRide tonight.

It’s such a great campaign and very excellent report looking at gendered social safety especially after dark when riding a bike.

So sorry not to be able to join @londoncycling.bsky.social

Repirt is here: lcc.org.uk/campaigns/wo...

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Jan 28

If there was ever a clearer argument for cars never to be allowed within 500m of schools, 20mph zones, and restrictions on massive SUVs.

Every UK school should have a School Street.

Wimbledon school crash driver arrested in reopened investigation

Driver of car that crashed into school, killing two girls, held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Jan 28

a design for life.

blue text on black

FORCE ADULT
DRIVERS TO BE SAFE BY DESIGN
INSTEAD OF JUST ASKING KIDS TO BE PERFECT

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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · Jan 28

Loving our new accessible pavements replacing parking, daylighting with cycle parking and informal play/seating.

Fantastic to see thanks to @labourstone.bsky.social @kira.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @wfcouncil

New accessible pavement around trees with cycle parking and seating

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Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · Jan 6

Alongside our partners, we are very proud of the positive impacts on #InclusiveCycling and #ActiveTravel that the #Wheels4Me scheme is having for disabled people.

Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · Jan 6

Blog: #Wheels4MeLondon provides improved options to travel actively for disabled people across the capital.
By @sustrans.bsky.social with @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk, Peddle My Wheels & Motability.

www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/new...

Ensuring cycling is for everyone: unique accessible cycle loan scheme arrives in London

In a landmark scheme for widening participation in cycling, we are working with partners to create a London-wide accessible cycle loan scheme. Wheels4MeLondon will provide improved options to travel a...

www.sustrans.org.uk

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 9

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · Jan 9

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Jan 9

One of those shots from real life that feels like a warning from the future.

The LA skyline through a sky that is orange and red, and looks burned from the wildfires burning within the city

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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · Jan 8

Esther Road in Waltham Forest was subject to bad flooding in 2021.

Parking out, rain gardens in. Beautiful, urban cooling, mental health boosting, biodiverse, flood mitigating awesomeness.

@labourstone.bsky.social @meristemdesign.bsky.social
#healthystreets #healthystreets4hhlp

A terraced street with parking removed and rain gardens installed both sides

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Jan 7

The people who loudly complain about bike share schemes tend to be strangely silent on this sort of thing

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Active Travel Please! @activetraveltt.bsky.social · Jan 5

Women carry luggage and accompany people, more often on public transport and by foot. The car is less often the default solution.
#MobilityIsEquity
www.weforum.org/stories/2020...

There are differences in how men and women see mobility - this is why that's important

Understanding women's experiences of using a male-oriented mobility system can help improve it for everyone. Here's a guide

www.weforum.org

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