Things you can do
- Avoid using your car
- Walk, bike, e-bike or use public transport
- Choose wisely when buying a new car: avoid diesel, go for frugal and eco-efficient models.
- Find better ways to heat your home than with stoves or fireplaces.
- Use centralized pickup points or bike couriers when internet shopping.
- Greenery in your front yard or building facade helps.
- Ventilate after cooking with gas, or during vacuuming.
- Ventilate outside of peak traffic hours.
- Keep the streetside windows closed.
- Join organisations who press the issue of air quality.
Things you and your neighbours can do
- Talk to your neighbours and family about the CurieuzeNeuzen experiment.
- Consider sharing a car with your neighbours.
- Go green with your street. Add greenery to improve air quality.
- Push sustainable mobility: organize a bike bus, support traffic education.
- Address cut-through traffic problems with your local council.
- Consider converting your street to a low-traffic or even car-free living street.
Things your city can do
- Clean air is a basic human right; claim it.
- Enlist schools, sport clubs and other organisations to deal with the air quality problem.
- Be creative in drawing attention to air quality issues.
- Exert pressure on governing powers to focus on structural solutions.