It's #CleanAirWeek by the @unep.org discussing solutions for improving air quality in the Asia-Pacific region and we're going to be sharing some learnings everyday on our work in this area. First up: Defining Data for Health Justice www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

From Health Councils to Healing Hubs In 2021, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production. The result was to set up the Urban Health Council. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social came on board as partners shortly after. Here's our shared learnings from the past 3 years

"Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa... @thecentriclab.com @psychologytoday.com #MentalHealthAwareness #PlanetaryHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #OneHealth #EcoHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #MentalHealth

PUBLISHED TODAY 🚨 Centric Lab are featured in @psychologytoday.com by @ilankelman.bsky.social as he talks about adopting the term 'planetary dysregulation'. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa...

Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.

New thinking from the Lab 👇

A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution. This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

No Time for Leaders We have created this zine as a framing that helps guide our work moving forward. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

Air Pollution and Abolition. How might we approach this? Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...

"Without the credible threat of legal challenge, laws to protect our right to healthy environment will not be enforced and polluters will act with impunity...[for] action on social, environmental & climate justice, then repealing Regulation 15 is a no brainer" www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2491...

Incredible story of perseverance, shocking it had to happen. "approximately 90% of Owino Uhuru residents tested positive for lead poisoning in a sample of 800" Stop the Right to Pollute! mediafornature.org/2024/12/18/e...

A 🧵 on the first 3 months of our Air is Kin project. We have identified the following needs and knowledges gaps within the space of environmental justice and clean air advocacy.

"They say, ‘Oh, well, we have fresh water now.’ But, they’re going to have to live for the rest of their lives with the contamination of their bodies. That’s why, in a number of cases, the struggle for environmental justice is a matter of life and death." insideclimatenews.org/news/2402202...

How epistemic injustice in research kills: This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?" "The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.

"resilience during recovery is rooted in collective action" - @1000currents.bsky.social tcurrents.exposure.co/finding-resi...

Congratulations Nataly! This is incredible, inspiring, and insightful piece of work! It is a reflective essay on the integration of groundbreaking research with Indigenous / Land-Kinned knowledge, with an insightful focus on Bitter Potatos and their deep connection to the Aymara and Quechuan Peoples

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru. Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Thanks for the kind words and sharing the piece @bharathabnair.bsky.social ✊🏾

Centric Lab February Newsletter is out 🥳 This month's newsletter leads with the launch of a new piece of work by Nataly Allasi Canales, a Quechua Amazonian evolutionary biologist titled 'Bitter Potato'. There's also updates on recent conferences, workshops, and more. mailchi.mp/f4cdc24e336c...

"Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found." This is what happens when you focus on emissions and not contaminants. One is an output, the other an input. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heartwarming to see that the hero image of the @scigallerylon.bsky.social newsletter features someone watching a video from our part of the Vital Signs exhibition 🤗 “This isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a movement” — @londonwithmygirl

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"It was in this part of the analysis that they found an association between the particle pollution from the incinerators and PCBs and dioxins in breast milk, although all of the mothers had PCB.." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"a sign of success within movements is when we are able to intervene in the dominant logics of the times and to collectively produce new meanings." - Robin Maynard in Rehearsals for Living.

UPDATE Our issues have been resolved and our website and emails are working again. We apologise for not being contactable during this period and that messages will have bounced. Thanks, CL ✌🏾

We're having domain issues so our website and emails are down for the moment. It's out of our immediate control but we hope to resolve things soon. Please message here if you need to contact us. Thanks

As it's all new here, we’re going to introduce ourselves and what we do through a story. It’s a story of our health, a story of power, dominance, extraction and contamination. However, the story nears its conclusion through hope, imagination and action….enjoy.

VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible is live! Last night was the private view for Vital Signs, an exhibition at the Science Gallery London. We were invited to contribute work around our relationship to Air and the determinants of pollution. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/v...