I was at the event but as I hadn't paid so I wasn't able to attend the discussion.
So I had a good chat with the one of the guys on the monitors stall.
Issues we chatted about were: difficulties in getting nodes installed, lack of help for people to understand what to do with the data and go beyond trying to solve the issue at their location without considering the bigger picture, reluctance of councils to use and report on Breathe data, council reporting against UK guidelines not WHO ones. And critically - what happens when the contract with Imperial using these monitors ends (which is soon) - changing hardware and support would potentially delay, disrupt and discourage community involvement. We need to see how we can ensure that the network continues but improves - same hardware, growing community, much more support for interpreting data that doesnt rely on a few volunteers.
At the event I saw very few people being excited by the 3 Teslas, there was a number of stalls addressing carbon offsetting and measuring carbon footprint using software. Not many stalls on solutions to reducing emissions - but those there were about distibuted/local solutions. And a few stalls looking for people to become members of environmental groups - I joined Fauna and Flora a 120 year old organisation who do animal conservation work around the world
Great that Louise was on the panel
I was at the event but as I hadn't paid so I wasn't able to attend the discussion.
So I had a good chat with the one of the guys on the monitors stall.
Issues we chatted about were: difficulties in getting nodes installed, lack of help for people to understand what to do with the data and go beyond trying to solve the issue at their location without considering the bigger picture, reluctance of councils to use and report on Breathe data, council reporting against UK guidelines not WHO ones. And critically - what happens when the contract with Imperial using these monitors ends (which is soon) - changing hardware and support would potentially delay, disrupt and discourage community involvement. We need to see how we can ensure that the network continues but improves - same hardware, growing community, much more support for interpreting data that doesnt rely on a few volunteers.
At the event I saw very few people being excited by the 3 Teslas, there was a number of stalls addressing carbon offsetting and measuring carbon footprint using software. Not many stalls on solutions to reducing emissions - but those there were about distibuted/local solutions. And a few stalls looking for people to become members of environmental groups - I joined Fauna and Flora a 120 year old organisation who do animal conservation work around the world