Breathing Billboard installation launched to visualize the true state of air quality in Metro Manila
QUEZON CITY, August 2, 2024 – In time for National Lung Month this August, clean air advocates have called for the urgent updating of the country’s air quality standards by installing a breathing billboard outside the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City today, providing a visualization of air quality conditions in Metro Manila. "Breathing Billboard Lung Installation: Visualizing Air Pollution in Metro Manila" is jointly organized by 350 Pilipinas and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), on behalf of their Mobility Awards co-convenors (The Climate Reality Project Philippines, Pinay Bike Commuter Community, and MNL [...]
What air quality monitoring can do for bike commuters [The Inkline]
by Mavic Conde | Sept 22, 2023| Published by The Inkline | READ THE STORY HERE At one o’clock in the afternoon, Joshua Agar parked along Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, a long stretch of road in the most populous city in the Philippines. He was cycling from his hometown in Cavite, about 16 miles southwest of his destination – the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he teaches in the College of Engineering. The temperature that day reached 35 degrees Celsius, with a humidity level of 63 percent, a level of temperature that discourages many Filipinos from cycling, [...]
Poor air quality increases TB risk among the vulnerable [BusinessWorld]
AIR POLLUTION has an unequal impact on health, with the most vulnerable people bearing the brunt of its ill effects, according to Greenpeace. In a report released on Sept. 1, the independent global campaigning network said that socioeconomic deprivation increases an individual’s vulnerability to air pollution and chronic health conditions.
‘PHL needs green, sustainable recovery’
by Rizal Raoul Reyes | December 5, 2021 | Published by BusinessMirror | READ THE STORY HERE Although it is a Third World country, the Philippines can still play an important role in the global effort in the fight against climate change. It can choose a different approach, which underscores its relevance to the long-suffering working Filipino families that would also hasten, as a co-benefit, the low carbon development of the country in the short and medium term. “Climate change may be bigger than everything else, but it is not necessarily more important than addressing poverty, livelihood, biodiversity, education, jobs [...]
Killer air
December 5, 2021 | Editorial published by Philippine Daily Inquirer | READ THE STORY HERE A week into the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March last year, residents of Metro Manila, the country’s economic hub, looked out of their windows and saw clear, blue skies and pronounced skylines they hadn’t seen in decades. With people locked inside their homes after public and private vehicles were banned from the roads, and business operations such as factories and construction activities halted, the metropolis’ notoriously noxious air cleared for once. But it wasn’t for long, because as soon as restrictions were partially lifted in [...]