Have your say on wood burning policy 🪵 The Government is consulting on new rules for wood burning in homes. The decisions made through this consultation will shape how wood burning is regulated for years to come, from stove standards to warning labels and enforcement. 🏠

🚨Major new report on #CleanAirDay. 📉Air pollution costs the UK more than £500m a week, with 99% of the population breathing toxic air, according to @rcphysicians.bsky.social‬ 💀It also kills more than 500 people a week, and harms almost every organ in the body. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say

Royal College of Physicians also says poor air quality costs country more than £500m a week

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Great editorial in the Riverford food box this morning. If you're looking for a veg box, do consider. 🥕🍄🍅

Delighted to see coverage of @‌globalactionplan.bsky.social's policy pathway towards a 2030 phase-out of wood burning in homes that have other forms of heating. Burning is a major source of air pollution, with devastating health effects for burners and their neighbours.

Rise in percentage of homes with wood burners since 2022, analysis finds

Greatest growth in rural areas as increase in homes with wood-burning stoves contributes to new air pollution hotspots

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Sad to see the government not taking the opportunity to ask for new homes to meet the best-in-class air quality standards. If the government wants to allow wood-burning stoves as secondary heat sources in 'future homes', they need to ensure this only happens outside of urban areas.

Impact on Urban Health@impurbanhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

"We are deeply concerned by the Government's decision to allow wood-burning stoves in new homes." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Four now confirmed dead in this strike, two of them World Central Kitchen aid workers

Leila Molana-Allen@leilama.bsky.social · 2y ago

World Central Kitchen volunteers have been hit again, by an #Israel’i airstrike in #Gaza today. One of the only orgs successfully getting food to thousands of starving Palestinians is now pausing ops while they investigate what happened & figure out how to protect their staff under these conditions.