Car tyres. Often underestimated for the huge environmental impact they have.

Air quality scorecard: ❌Adopting WHO guidelines ❌Reducing meat and dairy ❌Reducing aviation ❌Reducing car traffic ❌Reducing shipping ❌Reducing incinerators ❌Enforcing regulations on wood burning ❌Indoor air quality support Overall: Poor The gov is avoiding all the real solutions for clean air.

Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with @cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

We’ve written to @london.gov.uk and @metecoban92.bsky.social as we are seriously concerned about the year-on-year increase of PM2.5 at many locations across London. We’re urging the Mayor to speak up about #WoodBurning in London, right now.

Air pollution identified as most significant environmental risk to cardiovascular #Health PM2.5 alone is estimated to cause over 13,000 deaths from ischaemic heart disease & stroke annually & contributes to more than 1m yrs of life lost each year. #Environment airqualitynews.com/headlines/on...

🌿 “You can't buy back biodiversity.” We agree with #CANBill supporter, Neil Duncan-Jordan MP, at the Planning Bill debate. Nature isn't a nice to have, it’s all we have. Restoring nature must be at the centre of the Government's plans.

"The rate of warming is showing signs of accelerating" PIK Director Johan Rockström gives an analysis of the current situation on climate & planetary boundaries at #COP30. The data suggests the world is heading for global temperatures not seen in millions of years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...

2025 National Air Quality Conference - Report #AirPollution #Health airqualitynews.com/editors-pick...

69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted. A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. "Where illegal activity is shown, the government needs to enforce recalls, paid for by manufacturers."

Fix don’t throw. Bring your broken electrical items to Islington Fixers at the West Library. Sat 8th Nov 12-4pm. Book or drop in 👩🏼‍🔧👩🏾‍🔧👨🏿‍🔧👨🏻‍🔧 www.islingtonclimatecentre.co.uk/events/islin...

Smoking and high fat food advertising is banned so why do we allow high carbon, high pollution, deadly SUV adverts on the tube? Time to move the dial. theecologist.org/2025/nov/06/... @london.gov.uk

Now that’s a proper fine for idling your engine $2000 👀 #airpollution #cleanair #antiidling

“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 and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Smog Stories at the British Library. Book here 👇 events.bl.uk/events/smog-... #airpollution #london

Wow 😍💙 Safe cycle parking, reduces car journeys, sustainable solar panels, increasing biodiversity with green walls. Investing in travel for the future. Only one question - is it big enough? www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lar...

Millions of children across the UK could be regularly breathing dangerously polluted air, according to new findings from Asthma & Lung UK. #AirPollution #Health airqualitynews.com/health/schoo...

🌍Climate Emergency Centre Network Wednesday Webinar and Discussion 🌿 Pete Knapp DISCUSSION WITH FILMMAKER OF ‘FIRES AND FASCISM’ Wed 15th Oct, 7-8pm Talk Title : “Is filmmaking more impactful than science?” 🪡🧵 1/6

New book coming out exploring car culture and its impact on taxes, health, neighbourhoods and the planet. Roadkill: Unveiling the true cost of our toxic relationship with cars By @henriettalmoore.bsky.social and Arthur Kay Book tickets to the talk: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

What’s not to love? A family cycle, clean air, parks, finishing with some local appley treats 💙 #islington

Air pollution is a global crisis and it's hitting our ageing population. This week London achieved a major milestone meeting its clean air target 184 years earlier than predicted. The impact on vulnerable people shows why our work is so vital. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Transport of the future 👏👏👏 This 10 year is going places 💙

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

💙 Breaking clean air news 💙London complied with clean air targets for the first time, 15 years after the deadline thanks to @london.gov.uk for implementing clean air policies. However, there’s no such thing as safe pollution. Europe is marching on to 20ug/m3 💙 Let’s march to clean air together 💙

🚨📣🚨📣🚨📣🚨 **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

@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