🚨📣🚨📣🚨📣🚨 **Arson attack on Barbican Thistle Hotel.* *Solidarity picket with asylum residents* **THIS SUNDAY 2pm Thistle Hotel EC1V 8DS* *This is a horrific escalation of the racist campaign against #asylumseekers Please come and share widely - #refugees do not stand alone**

A new study has found that lower exposure to #AirPollution (nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and PM2.5) was linked to better eyesight in children. They believe that not only can cleaner air play a vital role in protecting children’s eyesight – it may even improve vision.

Islington has a high number of white vans. Transition to cargo bikes will make a huge improvement to air quality. Brewers paint shop in Islington deliver paint in a cargo bike reducing a considerable number of white van journeys of decorators going to pick up paint 💙🖼🖌

"Facilities that burn fossil fuels are the overwhelmingly dominant source of heat-trapping pollution that is driving the climate crisis – by using the sky as if it were an open sewer" Quote from Al Gore. Piece by Fiona Harvey. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whaaat!!! Wait!!! A politician who talks about the importance of clean air? Imagine the millions it would save in NHS bills 💙💙💙💙💙

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

We celebrated Car Free Day by opening Liverpool Road for play 🌺☀️🏸🥀🏃🏼‍♀️🌳⚽️☕️🛴 The neighbourhood turned out to enjoy games, bubbles and chat in the sunshine ☀️ Generations got together to plant tree pits from 6 to 66 year olds to leave a lasting legacy #carfreeday2025 🌺🎈❤️ #islington Happy Car Free Day!

Today we saw Oxford Street transformed: car-free, world-class, accessible and clean. Our next step is working to make this vision a reality ⤵️

It’s today! Car free day Liverpool Road Play Street! 🏃🏼‍♀️🥀🎾🛴☕️🎈☀️🏸 Road opens for play at 11.30am - 1.30pm and there will be games, treepit planting and hot drinks and biscuits. 💙💙💙🌍🌍🌍🌳🌳🌳 #carfreeday #islington

Islington’s air quality strategy is 2 years overdue so our Chair stepped up at Islington’s full council meeting to ask when the next air quality strategy will be ready for consultation? 🪡🧵1/4 #islington #airquality

"The government must act now and make polluters pay." Car companies built cars that emit illegal and toxic levels of gases. Little lungs are paying for it every day in the UK, and the manufacturers have still not been held to account. #Dieselgate @clientearth.bsky.social

On Sunday 21 September, Oxford Street will be traffic-free from midday to 8pm between Oxford Circus and Orchard Street. This is a fantastic opportunity to see Oxford Street in a new light with music, food, pop-ups and entertainment. I’m determined to unlock its true potential.

Join us for a play street this Sunday, 21st September on Liverpool Road 11.30am - 1.30pm for Car Free Day 💙💙💙 Enjoy games, giant bubbles, snacks, bulb planting, creating tree pits and planting for winter Liverpool Road, nx to Duchess of Kent, N7 8PR #carfreeday #islington

World cleanup day comes to Finsbury Park this weekend and you’ll find members of ICAP helping out 💙💙💙 Please join us!

"We’ve got to the point where the burden of ill health caused by #AirPollution is so huge, I’m asking myself: ‘What will it take to make the public demand more action?’." Well said @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social. Such a powerful read about the rise of #LungCancer in non-smoking, healthy young women.

We’re taking part in a mass action on September 20th in London, calling for politicians to tax extreme wealth and polluting industries. Will you join us? act.350.org/s/2969302.aw...

Traffic free Oxford Street 💙💙💙💙💙 #carfreeday The safest day if your kids like shopping, Sunday 21st. Let’s make it permanent.

Must-read by @airqualitynews.bsky.social | @cleanairlondon.bsky.social slams watchdog over NO2 #AirPollution failures airqualitynews.com/editors-pick...

We’d like to complain to @islington-council.bsky.social about the success of the Thornhill Living School Street. It attracts more bikes than cars could previously park here. Plus the bench is in constant use. And the planting scheme has grown over summer without any watering.

Most people take in 39,000–52,000 plastic particles each year through food and water, with even higher amounts when air is included. Indoors, nearly 90% come from fibers and fragments in carpets, clothes, and dust. Source: bit.ly/46ohq1B

Politics on the number 38? That’s the kind of clean air politics we need 💙

“Trading out the four wheels [of a car] for a bicycle on trips under a mile could save nearly two million metric tons of CO2 each year in the US alone.” This and 9 other myths about short trips in cities that might make you reconsider using a car for them. Discuss. #TheTruthAboutTraffic

Disappointing that Keir Starmer and Steve Reed have postponed second reading of @sianberry.bsky.social’s ‘Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill’ #EllasLaw #CAHRBill today by 2 weeks to Friday 21 November commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/969... cc @zackpolanski.bsky.social @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social

Yes it's August, but now's the time to email interior magazine editors about their #Christmas editions. Can you write to them, asking them to consider not using images of blazing fires on their front covers or within features this year? #AirPollution #WoodBurning

@islington-council.bsky.social how about Islington joining in the summer fun next year and holding some car-free outdoor dining streets? Funded by @london.gov.uk ❤️💙

***4610 children*** We went to Whittington Hospital in Islington to highlight the number of children admitted with breathing difficulties last year. Research by @mumsforlungs.bsky.social reveals a staggering 114,000 children admitted to hospitals in London with breathing problems #asthma #wheeze

WHO wants Clean Air? 💙💙💙 Pls support this petition asking government to adopt the WHO standards so we have a pathway to achieving safe air for all to breathe 💙

Could you be our next #Schools Lead? We are hiring an energetic, creative and community-focused Schools Lead to continue our impactful work on School Streets in Lambeth and Southwark in London, and across the country. Apply by 7th September! #AirPollution www.mumsforlungs.org/news/hiring-...

If air pollution kills 30,000 people a year in Britain, what’s it doing to our rivers, trees, and pollinators? We’re supporting @healthequals.bsky.social campaign to #MakeHealthEqual and ensure that everyone has clean air to breathe. 👉 brnw.ch/21wUm5l

In a TV news segment about lung cancer: “In patients that have a history of wood burning, wood-burning stoves, or things used to heat, any smoke exposure—not just smoking, but smoke exposure in general—that’s a risk factor,” Dr. Phillips [a pulmonologist] explained. www.wspa.com/news/ask-the...

114,000 🚗 👶🚓 👧🏿 🚖 🧒 🚙 👦🏽 The number of children in London needing hospital treatment for breathing difficulties last year. 🚛 👶🏼 🚚 👧🏻 🚘 👦🏾 🚖 👧🏼 #airpollution #toxicair #diesel Shocking statistics uncovered by @mumsforlungs.bsky.social airqualitynews.com/health/a-cri...

Islington Grow Show takes place at Whittington Park Community Centre, N19 4RS, 11am – 4pm on Sunday 7th September. Come and join the fun!! 🍓🌳🍒🐝🥒🥗🪘 Show what you’ve been growing, meet other growers and gardeners, pick up some tips, new ideas and share your growing stories…. 🪡🧵

We love our local Brewers emission free delivery in Islington 💙💙💙

How brilliant that young women are getting a say in developing this new green space 💙💙💙

Will @islington-council.bsky.social implement a ban on using pesticides in our streets?

We need clean internet as well as clean air to keep children healthy

Another invisible way cars are polluting our environment.

💙 Freedom of Freeling Street 💙 What a successful new scheme where people can chill and kids get active just seconds away from the bustle of Cali Road #islington @rowchampion.bsky.social

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe? For the first time, sales of new heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Soot, from sources like vehicle exhaust emissions and burning wood, was found to increase the relative risk of dementia by 13%...” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Such amazing news! 💙 💙💙Thanks to the commitment @mumsforlungs.bsky.social and @clientearth.bsky.social for making this happen and holding the car manufacturers to account.

Happiness 💙

If you do just one thing for better cleaner air this should be it…

We see amazing work by Islington environment and highways team greening grey space… and then the housing team builds on valuable community green space. #naturedepleted #islington

Transport emissions levels have barely changed over the past 30 years and are now the highest source of air pollution…

We are excited to try this new app showing air pollution… Find out how residents living on the A10 are using it to call for a better street environment. airaware.substack.com/p/airmeter-app

Wouldn’t this be amazing in London even just for Car Free Day in September for people to remember from covid times how amazing our city can be when we don’t all jump into cars to travel. @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social #carfreelondon #cleanair #carefreeday

Much needed in Islington too. Enormous SUVs are so dangerous and polluting. Children are 130% more likely to be killed if hit by one of these big SUVs.

These rain gardens continue to give and grow and see how the community grows naturally with it. #islington They grew from small seeds sewn during workshops and discussions, with the belief and vision of these two community minded women 🙏🌱🌟 @rowchampion.bsky.social @letsgetcracking.bsky.social