Sustainable Environment Network Society

Clean Air — B.C. Wildfires and Your Health

Dr Michael Mehta, environmental social scientist from Thompson Rivers University, focused on community resistance, resiliency, social innovation and citizen science. Forty residents came out and heard his ‘top 10’ actions to reduce health risks from PM2.5 particularly from wood smoke, as well as details of the Purple Air initiative, a global network of accurate air measurement instruments inexpensive enough to install at home.