live better
Journalist Fleur Britten investigates an area of life we could all improve, and the solutions design has created to help us.
Most likely, you are reading this indoors, safe, you’d assume, from the toxic air outside. Not so, sadly: ‘Our research showed that, on average, air quality is 3.5 times worse indoors than out – even in urban settings,’ says Larissa Lockwood of Global Action Plan (GAP), the charity behind air pollution campaign Clean Air Day. Countryside figures are comparable, adds Lockwood, thanks to agricultural pollution and our love of log fires.
While outdoor air pollution has entered the public consciousness in recent years, the invisible poisons inside our homes have largely been ignored – though they can be just as
