Clean Air Cville has just released our step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide, with a complete supplies list and photos of many key steps: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide
Wrote this in 2023 with @susananenberg.bsky.social Reposting now, and likely will to have to repost it again and again.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shows outdoor workers need air quality protections
The smoke from Canadian fires illuminates the lack of government policies and programs to protect the public, especially outdoor workers.
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Cleaning the air: 1 Box Fan & 1 MERV13 filter can make an air filter for $50 that actually works very well. Tape the filter to the back of the box fan and make sure the air flow arrow on the filter points towards the back of the box fan.
This is amazing: The clean air revolution is upon us. One day we'll look back & wonder why we ever normalized casually spreading dangerous respiratory viruses (Pro tip - if you don't want to wait till this is implemented, wear an N95 respirator in public) interceptfund.substack.com/p/ending-res...
Ending respiratory infections
Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.
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We gave a sneak preview of our clean air system for buildings at the @arpa-h.bsky.social BREATHE Demo Day. All the credit goes to Rajan Chakrabarty et al. at WashU, Madhav Marathe et al. at UVA, and Chris Cappa + Theresa Pistochini et al. at UC Davis. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/s...
Buildings May Soon Have ‘Immune Systems’ That Fight Airborne Disease
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@corsiaq.bsky.social and I wrote a viewpoint on Indoor Air Quality: An Overdue Awakening addressing 1. policies for public vs. private spaces 2. ultrapure vs. "clean enough" air 3. simple vs. complex solutions @arpa-h.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Indoor Air Quality: An Overdue Awakening
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People are getting some long term health conditions up to 2 years earlier than they would if we were breathing clean air. That's people losing up to 2 years pain free, 2 years with energy, able to do all the things that matter to them. share.google/t61ru2BTF1Il... 🧵 1/3
Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds
Pollution is ‘silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years’, say researchers
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When air is unsafe, people with chronic illness, disability or immunocompromise are excluded first, from offices, meetings, events and everyday participation. If the accessibility case isn’t enough, perhaps the economics will be. Read more here: www.estatesgazette.co.uk/news/why-ceo...
Why CEOs should treat office air quality like a financial KPI
COMMENT Smart Space’s Dan Drogman on a financial risk hiding in plain sight
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“In the wake of the EPA’s rollbacks, Michigan organizers, lawmakers, and health care professionals have rung the alarm about the impending challenges for communities that have looked to federal law for protections against industry polluters.” .
In America’s ‘asthma capital,’ Detroiters fight back against rampant air pollution
Residents and advocates say recent rollbacks of EPA protections will make things worse in an already struggling city
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Another community building CR boxes for schools! “There’s not much that we can do about the air quality outside. But being able to create our own safe haven indoors is what we can do to actually have control and autonomy over our own health.” www.imperialvalleyweekly.com/news/seeley-...
Seeley School Community Builds DIY Indoor Air Purifiers
SEELEY — In a community where air quality challenges are part of daily life, students, parents and school staff at Seeley Union School District took action this week by learning
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How new science, real-time monitoring, and smarter engineering are reshaping school air quality – and what it means for kids’ health and absenteeism. A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools. www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
How Contractors Can Lead Air Quality Improvement in Schools
A wave of groundbreaking research in Colorado is revealing how targeted measurement and interventions can transform air quality in schools, reduce illness, and help every child breathe easier.
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As the early surge in the so called “super flu” further stresses health care systems across the UK, a GP and co-founder of Clean Air Advocacy Ireland is calling for officials to better communicate that flu can be spread through the air. www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
Superflu - Irish medic calls for warning: 'It's time to grasp the nettle'
Dr Ciara Steele blasted health bosses for not speaking out about flu spreading through the air
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I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
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Air-quality reforms in China have slashed concentrations of fine particulates by nearly half since 2013, preventing an estimated 2.2 million premature deaths annually. New analysis from the University of Chicago shows the average citizen now lives 2.9 years longer. buff.ly/EJeLqjd #ShareGoodNewsToo
China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy
Despite significant increases in particulate pollution (PM2.5) in many regions of the world, global pollution has declined since 2013. That decline is due entirely to China’s success in steeply…
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New research alert! “Do-It-Yourself Air Purifiers: Educator Attitudes and Perceptions in a K-12 Public School District” Read more to learn about the @crfoundationus.bsky.social box and its use in a Connecticut school district: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Not sure if the canary pins will be made widely available at some point (I hope so!) but you can keep an eye on www.airclub.org
Air Club
A global coalition aspiring towards healthy indoor air.
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The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins. Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join! Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Pledge
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Latvia deploys 14,000 CO2 monitors to schools, at a cost of 12 Euros per student. Launched by the Ministry of Education, this data is freely available to the public. seetheair.org/2025/07/31/l...
Latvia’s Model for Healthy Learning: The MESH Air Quality Project
Latvia has successfully deployed 14,000 CO2 monitors in hundreds of schools, ensuring safer and healthier learning environments for students and teachers. This nationwide initiative, launched by th…
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"All students should have the right to mask. All students should have the right to clean classroom air. All students should have a right to participate in college without risking Long COVID. "
The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org · last yr.Stephanie Castaneda Perez, a Stanford history alum who has been living with #LongCOVID for two years, writes about the ways universities are failing their students when it comes to COVID-19 and Long COVID. bit.ly/4eAk7j5
In France, 7 of the 11 mandatory vaccines concern airborne diseases. They are so effective that we had forgotten that many viruses and bacteria are transmitted through the air we breathe. Infographic available in our 24-page booklet on airborne diseases: letsair.org#mediation
Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it
Last May, the state passed a law that would fine residents for sharing air quality data that did not meet strict standards.
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Thanks to Amudalat Ajasa for this story about the significant benefits of CR Boxes for wildfire smoke particles and other indoor aerosol particles (including virus-laden respiratory aerosol particles, pollen, mold, particles from cooking, etc.). www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
These DIY air purifiers could make clean air more accessible during wildfires
Homemade air purifiers can filter air faster, making them an affordable alternative to more expensive commercial products.
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Using independent, third party data Safe Air Schools has also evidenced that commercial air filters can be provided per child, per year for less than the price of a pizza. Ht @jneill.bsky.social @housefresh.bsky.social #AirPollution #Pollen #Pathogens 🔗 archive.is/2025.04.29-1...
NZ: "A group of New Zealand doctors, teachers, academics and principals are urging the Government to improve air quality in schools and childcare centres to reduce Covid-19 and other air-borne illness." Source: archive.md/2OOFa
