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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
24th
September
2016
8th
October
2016
19th
November
2016
June
2017
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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
