Breathe
FREE ARTIST TALK: 6.30-7.30pm on Thursday 25th October at Central Hall, St Thomas’ Hospital.
Artist Dryden Goodwin and Dr Ian Mudway, air pollution researcher King’s College London, discuss the video projection on St Thomas’ roof, Breathe, all welcome. (No need to book). The video projection ends on 28th October.
Breathe is a new video artwork by artist Dryden Goodwin which is projected onto the roof of St Thomas’ Hospital. It is created from over a thousand pencil drawings showing the breathing of his five-year-old son. Monet and Turner painted the air pollution from coal fires in their famous paintings with the same view of the Houses of Parliament. Dryden Goodwin wanted the artwork to explore modern ‘invisible’ air pollution and the effect that it is having on people living in cities, in particular on children. Breathe continues until 28th October.
Dryden Goodwin worked with Professor Frank Kelly, King’s College...
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London's poorest most at risk from air pollution
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Synopsis
The lives of some of the most deprived and vulnerable people in London are most at risk from air pollution caused by two of London’s most iconic symbols – black cabs and red buses. Over 4,000 deaths in London, and around 29,000 deaths across the UK each year are attributable to fine particulate air pollution caused in large part by diesel engined vehicles, at a cost to the economy of £15bn.
A new report by leading think tank Policy Exchange shows that children living in the worst places in London for air quality are nearly 50% more likely to be eligible for free school meals than the London average. Residents of the most polluted areas are also around 25% more likely to be on income support than the London average.
The research – Something in the Air – says that air pollution is Britain’s invisible environmental problem. It is comparable to obesity and alcohol and...
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20/09/2012
Image source: http://www.bloomberg.com
Smog hanging over cities is the most familiar and obvious form of air pollution. But there are different kinds of pollution—some visible, some invisible—that contribute to global warming. Generally any substance that people introduce into the atmosphere that has damaging effects on living things and the environment is considered air pollution.
Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is the main pollutant that is warming Earth. Though living things emit carbon dioxide when they breathe, carbon dioxide is widely considered to be a pollutant when associated with cars, planes, power plants, and other human activities that involve the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline and natural gas. In the past 150 years, such activities have pumped enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to raise its levels higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years.
Other greenhouse gases include methane—which comes...
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Air pollution is killing Londoners and Boris is ignoring it, warns Jenny JonesGreen candidate says mayor is 'burying problem' by using suppressant vehicles to glue particles near monitoring stationsShare58EmailHélène Mulholland, political reporterguardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 April 2012 18.06 BSTJump to comments (33)Air pollution in London – a Green party campaign video Link to this videoJenny Jones, the Green mayoral candidate for London, has accused mainstream political parties of lacking the political courage to tackle airpollution – despite strong evidence that it represents a major public health risk.Jones issued a broadside against the political mainstream as she battles to get London's poor air quality a hearing at mayoral hustings between now and polling day, amid evidence that a problem invisible to the naked eye is now the second biggest public health risk in Britain after smoking, and is linked to around one in five deaths a year in...
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Ink breath animation created as part of air pollution studyhttp://invisibledust.com/eduction/exhale-schools-project/
What is Air pollution?http://invisibledust.com/what-is-air-pollution/
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