Enjoy breathing? Our health depends on clean air. The 82nd Sustainability Salon will be our annual fall focus on Air Quality.

Sue Seppi, Project Manager (and former Executive Director) of the Group Against Smog & Pollution (GASP, on whose board I serve) will bring an update on the organization’s legal, education, and advocacy work — including the ongoing lawsuit calling the county to task for spending air quality funding on building renovations, and efforts to bring the region into compliance with hydrogen sulfide standards. Shaena Berlin Ulissi will talk about source attribution analyses: how to quantify air quality and health impacts of air pollution sources. And Conservation Luminary Linda Wigington will be here to share progress and results from the residential monitoring research in the ROCIS project (Reducing Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Spaces). Stay tuned for more details as the date approaches!

Two other upcoming events of particular interest: Action on climate change will naturally improve air quality. I’ll be hosting a satellite livestream of an Omega Institute program with Project Drawdown and Paul Hawken on October 19th. And the next week, on October 25th, GASP’s latest Making the Connection event will feature researchers linking manganese contamination to children’s IQ.