Times Educational Supplement article

The Times Educational Supplement ran a feature about air pollution risks in schools and how schools can respond. Read it in full.

Our CEO, Louise Thomas, was interviewed for the piece:

However, detailed data about outdoor air quality isn’t always readily available to schools, says Louise Thomas, the co-founder and CEO of Air Aware Labs, a British start-up that is widening access to air pollution data and decoding it.

“I think there’s very little awareness of the levels of pollution, both indoor and outdoor,” she explains. “Some schools might have a monitor somewhere near to them in their outdoor environment, but my suspicion is not many of them would know where it is, or if they did, how to get the data. And if they could get the data, would they know what the data actually means? There’s a huge amount to do there.”

Air Aware Labs has created a free app that anyone can use to find out this information. Thomas hopes that as access to monitoring technology becomes more widespread, it might become habitual for people to check air quality, “just like people would look up the weather forecast”.

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