Mike Hinford
@mikehinford.bsky.social
Wannabe Film Producer. Allergic to lots of stuff. Severe mould allergy. Atheist.
Clean Air Campaigner.
Universal Basic Income.
Bristol, UK
Clean Air Campaigner.
Universal Basic Income.
Bristol, UK
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Join us and AWAIR on Sunday (30th) for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Join us and AWAIR on Sunday (30th) for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
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A month today, Father Christmas will be busy squeezing down chimneys.
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A month today, Father Christmas will be busy squeezing down chimneys.
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
Did you know that burning wood produces benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, mercury (& more)?
Help us protect Father C's lungs; please don't burn if you don't need to 🙏 .
www.dsawsp.org/health/wood-...
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So greed won
Earth lost
Our grandkids will not forgive you.
Earth lost
Our grandkids will not forgive you.
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So greed won
Earth lost
Our grandkids will not forgive you.
Earth lost
Our grandkids will not forgive you.
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Doctor here
Wish I could be angry
But spent it all when:
- I checked daily in March - still no lockdown
- I used plastic seat covers for gowns
- I scoured DIY shops for masks
- Govt refused my PPE contacts in China
- Sunak’s ‘eat out & die’
- hand washing for known airborne virus
- & more…
Wish I could be angry
But spent it all when:
- I checked daily in March - still no lockdown
- I used plastic seat covers for gowns
- I scoured DIY shops for masks
- Govt refused my PPE contacts in China
- Sunak’s ‘eat out & die’
- hand washing for known airborne virus
- & more…
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Doctor here
Wish I could be angry
But spent it all when:
- I checked daily in March - still no lockdown
- I used plastic seat covers for gowns
- I scoured DIY shops for masks
- Govt refused my PPE contacts in China
- Sunak’s ‘eat out & die’
- hand washing for known airborne virus
- & more…
Wish I could be angry
But spent it all when:
- I checked daily in March - still no lockdown
- I used plastic seat covers for gowns
- I scoured DIY shops for masks
- Govt refused my PPE contacts in China
- Sunak’s ‘eat out & die’
- hand washing for known airborne virus
- & more…
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Hello and welcome to all our new followers!
Please do sign up to our newsletter to stay in touch with the latest air pollution news, find out about our campaigns and how you can get involved.
Please do sign up to our newsletter to stay in touch with the latest air pollution news, find out about our campaigns and how you can get involved.
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Hear the latest news on air pollution, and find out more about our campaigns.
www.mumsforlungs.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hello and welcome to all our new followers!
Please do sign up to our newsletter to stay in touch with the latest air pollution news, find out about our campaigns and how you can get involved.
Please do sign up to our newsletter to stay in touch with the latest air pollution news, find out about our campaigns and how you can get involved.
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“It’s hard to see why any government takes advice from an industry subject to this ban by the ASA. In Wales, where in the Valleys temperature inversion holds down pollution, the Stove Industry Association are major advisers.”
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
Welsh Government told to stop promoting wood burning stoves after regulator's ruling
Martin Shipton The Welsh Government should stop promoting woodburning stoves after the Advertising Standards Authority banned misleading adverts from the stove industry, according to a veteran environ...
nation.cymru
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“It’s hard to see why any government takes advice from an industry subject to this ban by the ASA. In Wales, where in the Valleys temperature inversion holds down pollution, the Stove Industry Association are major advisers.”
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
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We’ve written to @london.gov.uk and @metecoban92.bsky.social as we are seriously concerned about the year-on-year increase of PM2.5 at many locations across London.
We’re urging the Mayor to speak up about #WoodBurning in London, right now.
We’re urging the Mayor to speak up about #WoodBurning in London, right now.
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We’ve written to @london.gov.uk and @metecoban92.bsky.social as we are seriously concerned about the year-on-year increase of PM2.5 at many locations across London.
We’re urging the Mayor to speak up about #WoodBurning in London, right now.
We’re urging the Mayor to speak up about #WoodBurning in London, right now.
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Help us get this to 20,000 and beyond!
#Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK.
Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution
#Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK.
Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution
Make polluters pay for poisoning our children
10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions…
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Help us get this to 20,000 and beyond!
#Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK.
Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution
#Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK.
Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution
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Join us and AWAIR on Sunday 30th Nov for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join us and AWAIR on Sunday 30th Nov for a free Walk & Talk exploring local #AirPollution displays in Gipsy Hill.
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
Meet at 5pm at the Gipsy Hill Taproom, SE27, and join our friendly chat about how pollution affects our health & daily lives.
Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-talk-...
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This is a good letter from Communities Against Woodsmoke on links between the Stove Industry Association & the Scottish Government.
"Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on #Health policies, so why is a lobby group whose claims have been found to be misleading guiding a public health strategy?"
"Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on #Health policies, so why is a lobby group whose claims have been found to be misleading guiding a public health strategy?"
Is the Stove Industry Association too cosy with our MSPs?
FOLLOWING the recent complaint regarding misleading and unsubstantiated claims made by the Stove Industry Association on their website regarding…
www.thenational.scot
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is a good letter from Communities Against Woodsmoke on links between the Stove Industry Association & the Scottish Government.
"Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on #Health policies, so why is a lobby group whose claims have been found to be misleading guiding a public health strategy?"
"Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on #Health policies, so why is a lobby group whose claims have been found to be misleading guiding a public health strategy?"
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“Stove Association is involved in consultation process on the Cleaner Air for Scotland Strategy, representing a serious conflict of interest. Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on health policies, so why is the SA whose claims found to be misleading be guiding a public health strategy?”
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Stove Association is involved in consultation process on the Cleaner Air for Scotland Strategy, representing a serious conflict of interest. Tobacco companies wouldn’t be consulted on health policies, so why is the SA whose claims found to be misleading be guiding a public health strategy?”
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Using heat from #DataCentres should be standard.
We need regulation.
They use ~2.5% of UK's electricity (x4 by 2030)
Big ones MUST use renewables & ones like these supported.
Thermify put small data centres into homes. Generated heat warms the home. Thermify charges customers for data work
We need regulation.
They use ~2.5% of UK's electricity (x4 by 2030)
Big ones MUST use renewables & ones like these supported.
Thermify put small data centres into homes. Generated heat warms the home. Thermify charges customers for data work
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Using heat from #DataCentres should be standard.
We need regulation.
They use ~2.5% of UK's electricity (x4 by 2030)
Big ones MUST use renewables & ones like these supported.
Thermify put small data centres into homes. Generated heat warms the home. Thermify charges customers for data work
We need regulation.
They use ~2.5% of UK's electricity (x4 by 2030)
Big ones MUST use renewables & ones like these supported.
Thermify put small data centres into homes. Generated heat warms the home. Thermify charges customers for data work
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Data are clear that burning wood in the home, even ‘eco stoves’, releases health harming particles.
Trees take ~20 years to actively gather in CO2, plantations are cut around 15y.
I would be happy to present the evidence to any & all MPs who want the science, not marketing.
Please invite me
Trees take ~20 years to actively gather in CO2, plantations are cut around 15y.
I would be happy to present the evidence to any & all MPs who want the science, not marketing.
Please invite me
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Data are clear that burning wood in the home, even ‘eco stoves’, releases health harming particles.
Trees take ~20 years to actively gather in CO2, plantations are cut around 15y.
I would be happy to present the evidence to any & all MPs who want the science, not marketing.
Please invite me
Trees take ~20 years to actively gather in CO2, plantations are cut around 15y.
I would be happy to present the evidence to any & all MPs who want the science, not marketing.
Please invite me
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Sigh…
“It would leave Britain vulnerable to the whims of fossil fuel despots, put thousands of jobs at risk and blow a hole clean through the UK’s plans for climate action.”
#HeatPumps
“It would leave Britain vulnerable to the whims of fossil fuel despots, put thousands of jobs at risk and blow a hole clean through the UK’s plans for climate action.”
#HeatPumps
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sigh…
“It would leave Britain vulnerable to the whims of fossil fuel despots, put thousands of jobs at risk and blow a hole clean through the UK’s plans for climate action.”
#HeatPumps
“It would leave Britain vulnerable to the whims of fossil fuel despots, put thousands of jobs at risk and blow a hole clean through the UK’s plans for climate action.”
#HeatPumps
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Please sign @asthmaandlung.org.uk's petition calling for stronger #AirPollution limits in the UK.
The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?
The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?
Adopt Ambitious Air Quality Standards into UK Law
🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s…
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Please sign @asthmaandlung.org.uk's petition calling for stronger #AirPollution limits in the UK.
The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?
The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?
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One of our volunteers presented on #AirPollution to #Winchester's Green Party last week. Great to see our slides up on their website - thank you @wingreenparty.bsky.social!
'Mums for Lungs' A presentation on the effects of air pollution by Hazel agombar - Winchester Green Party
A slide show of the very informative presentation given by Hazel at our open meeting on Thursday 6th. November ’25. Click image below to view.
winchester.greenparty.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of our volunteers presented on #AirPollution to #Winchester's Green Party last week. Great to see our slides up on their website - thank you @wingreenparty.bsky.social!
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Great to see…
Submerged in 40m of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for >6y to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity.
Its durability demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
#TidalEnergy
Submerged in 40m of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for >6y to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity.
Its durability demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
#TidalEnergy
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great to see…
Submerged in 40m of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for >6y to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity.
Its durability demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
#TidalEnergy
Submerged in 40m of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for >6y to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity.
Its durability demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
#TidalEnergy
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One in five EU heart deaths linked to environmental hazards
A new report shows how pollution, temperature extremes, noise and chemical exposure contribute to a health crisis that claims more than 1.7 million lives each year. airqualitynews.com/headlines/on...
A new report shows how pollution, temperature extremes, noise and chemical exposure contribute to a health crisis that claims more than 1.7 million lives each year. airqualitynews.com/headlines/on...
One in five EU heart deaths linked to environmental hazards
Environmental factors are responsible for nearly one in five cardiovascular deaths across the European Union, according to a new briefing from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report unders...
airqualitynews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
One in five EU heart deaths linked to environmental hazards
A new report shows how pollution, temperature extremes, noise and chemical exposure contribute to a health crisis that claims more than 1.7 million lives each year. airqualitynews.com/headlines/on...
A new report shows how pollution, temperature extremes, noise and chemical exposure contribute to a health crisis that claims more than 1.7 million lives each year. airqualitynews.com/headlines/on...
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“The NHS could save £54 million if non-essential wood burning ended…”
“Thousands of deaths could also be prevented if Britons stop heating their home using a wood burner or open fire…”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2124696/nhs-54m-year-wood-burning
“Thousands of deaths could also be prevented if Britons stop heating their home using a wood burner or open fire…”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2124696/nhs-54m-year-wood-burning
NHS could save £54m a year if Britons stop doing this one thing
Stopping non-essential burning across the UK would contribute to a range of health benefits that could save the NHS over £54 million in healthcare costs.
www.express.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“The NHS could save £54 million if non-essential wood burning ended…”
“Thousands of deaths could also be prevented if Britons stop heating their home using a wood burner or open fire…”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2124696/nhs-54m-year-wood-burning
“Thousands of deaths could also be prevented if Britons stop heating their home using a wood burner or open fire…”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2124696/nhs-54m-year-wood-burning
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Worried about #AirPollution from wood burning? You can download our digital flyer from our website, or order printed ones for free.
It's often easier to hand over a flyer than talk about this; many people still aren't aware how burning can affect both their and their neighbours' #Health.
It's often easier to hand over a flyer than talk about this; many people still aren't aware how burning can affect both their and their neighbours' #Health.
Wood burning flyer — Mums for Lungs
5th November 2025 It is an uncomfortable truth that wood burning creates a huge amount of air pollution in the UK. Please join us in raising awareness of this difficult-to-talk-about issue by…
www.mumsforlungs.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Worried about #AirPollution from wood burning? You can download our digital flyer from our website, or order printed ones for free.
It's often easier to hand over a flyer than talk about this; many people still aren't aware how burning can affect both their and their neighbours' #Health.
It's often easier to hand over a flyer than talk about this; many people still aren't aware how burning can affect both their and their neighbours' #Health.
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Exposure to fine particulate matter air #pollution (PM2.5) increases risk for #dementia
We need tougher legislation to lower levels.
This includes wood stoves & transport.
We need tougher legislation to lower levels.
This includes wood stoves & transport.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Exposure to fine particulate matter air #pollution (PM2.5) increases risk for #dementia
We need tougher legislation to lower levels.
This includes wood stoves & transport.
We need tougher legislation to lower levels.
This includes wood stoves & transport.
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If you're concerned about wood burning, join us in putting up posters in your area to help inform people about the #AirPollution impacts of burning.
#WoodBurning is still a vastly underestimated and misunderstood source of pollution.
Order your free posters here: bit.ly/wbposterform
#WoodBurning is still a vastly underestimated and misunderstood source of pollution.
Order your free posters here: bit.ly/wbposterform
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you're concerned about wood burning, join us in putting up posters in your area to help inform people about the #AirPollution impacts of burning.
#WoodBurning is still a vastly underestimated and misunderstood source of pollution.
Order your free posters here: bit.ly/wbposterform
#WoodBurning is still a vastly underestimated and misunderstood source of pollution.
Order your free posters here: bit.ly/wbposterform
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Gen4 car accelerates clean racing into the fast lane
The Gen4 is the world’s most efficient and sustainable race car: almost 100% motor efficiency and regenerating 40% energy, while it is constructed from 100% recyclable materials’. airqualitynews.com/headlines/ge...
The Gen4 is the world’s most efficient and sustainable race car: almost 100% motor efficiency and regenerating 40% energy, while it is constructed from 100% recyclable materials’. airqualitynews.com/headlines/ge...
Gen4 car accelerates clean racing into the fast lane
‘We’re accelerating faster than any other race car in the world,’ Sylvain Filippi CTO of Envision Racing, tells Air Quality News. Image: Sylvain Filippi, CTO and Managing Director at Envision Racing T...
airqualitynews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Gen4 car accelerates clean racing into the fast lane
The Gen4 is the world’s most efficient and sustainable race car: almost 100% motor efficiency and regenerating 40% energy, while it is constructed from 100% recyclable materials’. airqualitynews.com/headlines/ge...
The Gen4 is the world’s most efficient and sustainable race car: almost 100% motor efficiency and regenerating 40% energy, while it is constructed from 100% recyclable materials’. airqualitynews.com/headlines/ge...