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About London Sustainably

Exchange (LSx)

‘A think and do tank’ that that provides organisations and networks of individuals with the motivation, knowledge and connections

they need to put sustainability into practice

Our vision:

Of London as the most sustainable world city

Our founding partners:

About LSx

People reached – 2,523,699

Volunteers – 3,586

Waste diverted – 4,925 tonnes

Water saved -2,091 m3

Co2 reduced – 6,723 tonnes

Our partners:

The challenge of Air Quality

Cleaner Air

The challenge

• 9,500 People die (prematurely) annually

from Air Pollution in London

• Air Pollution causes:

Asthma

Dementia

Heart Disease

Lung Disease

Children especially susceptible

• And yet still nearly a third of children

in London travel to school by car,

over 40% in the UK ……

Cleaner Air

The challenge

Our Approach

Cleaner Air 4 Schools

project delivery

• Engagement of Primary Schools.

• Coordination of Air Quality Teams

• Training of Air Quality Teams in citizen science

• Empowerment of Air Quality

teams to deliver peer-to-peer

social-marketing

• Air Quality campaign toolkit

LSx approach

• Co-production

• Champions

• Peer-to-peer engagement

• Working with social networks

• Working with the most vulnerable

What we do:

Raise awareness and understanding of pollution

Improve confidence, to talk to their friends and

neighbours about pollution

Explore what people can do - avoid the most

polluted streets, travel choices (walk and cycle)

Cleaner Air 4 Schools

project delivery

Cleaner Air 4 Schools

Activities

Citizen science

”seeing” Pollution

- NO2: diffusion tubes

- Nitrogen: lichen observation

Social marketing

“Creating a social norm”

- AQ poster competition to

communicate pollution

- School assembly / parents events to

tell their family

- Travel plan recommendations; to

avoid most polluted streets

Our work in context

Cleaner Air 4 Schools Cleaner Air 4

Communities

•Over 2,000 students

(primary & secondary)

•16 Community Groups

•33 schools •50 Volunteer Champions

•8 boroughs •16 boroughs

•5 public consultations

In excess of 200 tonnes of C02e saved per year!

Cleaner Air 4

Wandsworth

Cleaner Air 4

Communities

•4 primary schools

•St Mary’s

•Penwortham

•Eveline Day School

•Sacred Heart

•4 community groups

•Battersea Soc

•Transition Town Tooting

•Putney Soc

•Wandsworth Society

•270 students

•20 champions

• Direct outreach 600+

•Indirect 100k +

Our work in Wandsworth Schools

• We have: worked with 270 pupils in 4 schools in

Wandsworth

• This is: Part of wider project working with more than

840 pupils in 14 schools across 4 boroughs

• We reached: more people and reinforced the

messages by extending the project over 2 years

Cleaner Air 4 Wandsworth

Schools

Cleaner Air 4 Wandsworth

Schools- overall results

Results:

• Snapshot readings in some places could indicate an

exceedance of the annual mean NO2

• A large number of pupils of pupils want to cycle BUT

only few do (41% to 1%)

• Many parents knew very little about AQ (60%)

Cleaner Air 4 Schools

Quotes

• “My dad left the engine on and I told him ‘Hey dad you left

your engine on - it’s creating air pollution!’ He said ‘I will

turn the engine off next time!” Pupil Champion

• “The children have absolutely loved it and have been

inspired to really take things further. We don’t have to stop

do we? They’ve come up with loads of new ideas for

projects and things and want to keep going.” Teacher champion

• “I told my dad about air quality. He was planning to buy a

Nissan, but when I told to him about air pollution, he

changed his mind and decided to buy an electric car.”

Pupil Champion

Green

Infrastructure Focus Groups

Action planning with PTA/Governors

Cleaner Air 4 Schools

Next Steps

St Mary’s C of E Primary School

- A Case Study

Clean Air 4 St Mary’s

Overview

• Working with year 5 pupils over 2 years

• 30 students took participated in our

campaign last year and a further 60

students earlier this year, carrying out

citizen science activities

• Through assemblies, posters and end of

year fete, we were able to raise awareness

of air quality to the local community and

parents.

Clean Air 4 Schools Diffusion tube experiment

St Mary’s CE Primary School: 25th April 2016-19th

May 2016

Clean Air 4 St Mary’s

Posters

Clean Air 4 St Mary’s

Posters

Engage

Enable

Encourage

Exemplify

Clean Air 4 St Mary’s

Travel Plan

Clean Air 4 St Mary’s

Hands up surveys

Clean Air 4 Communities

Since 2014 we have:

Reached – 16 communities

Trained – 50 champions

Provided – support on 5 public consultations

Presented – Info across London

Encouraged – Action planning

Clean Air 4 Communities

The Putney Society

- a Case Study

Clean Air 4 Putney

Data

Spread the word

• Public meetings with many local people

• Took the issue to other civic societies

• Contributed by presenting findings at two pan

London events and at least 8 local events

• Created a London and nationwide publicity campaign

Liaised with politicians

• Meeting with the local authority. Local authority

agreed to monitor the area with a permanent station.

Responded to consultations

• Responded to planning applications ensuring that

pollution was properly considered

Taking action

• Worked with the council and TfL to have the cleanest

bus fleet

• Worked with the council to and local businesses to

rationalise local deliveries

• Started a campaign discouraging idling at on the

High Street

Clean Air 4 Putney

Actions

Clean Air 4 Communities

- Next Steps

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Clean Air 4 Communities

• DEFRA consultation – Autumn 2016

• Mayors Consultation – Autumn 2016

• NICE consultation - 1st Dec–25th Jan 2017

• Investigation into green infrastructure

Clean Air 4 Communities

Thank you!

Hannah Gardiner

h.gardiner@lsx.org.uk