The Healthy Air Campaign is Mumsnet Campaign of the Week:

"Air pollution is estimated to contribute to 29,000 premature deaths each year in the UK. Children are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of air pollution and so it’s great that Mumsnet are recognising the importance of the issue. We’d like parents to become a powerful voice in calling for government to take action to achieve legal limits for air pollution, and start by signing up to the Healthy Air Campaign".

"In recognition of being featured on Mumsnet, some parents have written about their ideas on the issue. In February we’ll be running projects with parents in London where we map their local pollution using equipment very kindly loaned to us by Air Monitors Ltd. It will hopefully show firsthand how local the problem is and how taking a side street over a main road can significantly reduce your exposure. We’ll make a short film of these workshops so that the results can be shared more broadly."

"In America they have established the ‘Mom’s Clean Air Force’. They describe themselves as a - national movement of more than 100,000 moms - and dads too! - who are protecting our children’s right to clean air - just as our parents fought for us, forty years ago, when the Clean Air Act was first passed.- I’d like to see a similar movement of UK parents unite to demand cleaner air for our children."

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Item date 18/01/2013