Field Notes: Making indoor air healthy for children — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
The air kids breathe indoors while in school and daycare is one of the most under-addressed problems we know how to fix. The team building the Inspired Air Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy shares their lessons from phase one of fund-building.
The quality of the air we breathe indoors is invisible most days. But poor indoor air impacts how we think, how we learn, how sick we get, how we sleep, and how long we live. The younger we are when exposed, the more these effects compound. As a global society, we’ve made enormous strides on outdoor air pollution, but are in the earliest stages of ensuring that the air we all breathe indoors — nine out of every 10 breaths we take — is clean, healthy, and safe. And unbeknownst to most of us, the quality of the air we breathe inside is often quietly detrimental to our health and well-being.…
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