When Sofie Allert was growing up in Skövde, a small town in southern Sweden, her dad worked liming lakes. It gave her an early insight into the environmental damage that industry can wreak. “...
One foot forward, and then another. It’s not so strange that those first tentative steps we took as children were heartily applauded by our parents. Being able to go outside regularly and walk in the...
Did you think that oxygen was permanent and something you could take for granted? Take a deep breath and think again.
Researchers now believe that global warming is one reason why oxygen is...
1. Everybody is a star
Look up at the sky at night. Try to get far away from the lights of the city, where the stars and their constellations can really twinkle in the darkness. Then consider these...
How do you get the best air quality when staying at hotels in some of the world’s greatest cities? Daniel Uusitalo, business development manager at Blueair, clocks up 120 travel days a year and has...
1. Diamonds in the sky
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has come up with a gem of an idea: air-purifying towers that subject the carbon in smog to such enormous pressure that it is converted into...
American artist and sculptor Janet Echelman lets air currents do the work for her – she creates large-scale, suspended sculptures in which the wind acts as a co-creative force.
It all started when...
1. Ann Hidalgo politician
The current Mayor of Paris, Ann Hidalgo, has fought for traffic restrictions to reduce smog and stated that she wants to “divide by around half the number of polluting...
1. An appetite for smog
The fight against air pollution is producing increasingly innovative solutions. How about buildings that “eat” carbon dioxide? German company Prosolve created a coral...
Sometimes, the shrewdest things can also be the most simple. Take HEPASilent Technology, Blueair’s patented filtration system, which radically improves the quality of indoor air.
“First, the air...
360
Online service Air View allows users to track the pollution situation in a 360-degree street view. Just enter the address and figures are shown on the screen in real time. Free at airview....
Bingbing Shi
Age: 33
Born: China.
Lives: Stockholm, Sweden.
Profession: Senior Air Filtration Specialist at Blueair.
Air memory: “I have my best air experience every time I come back to...
Full control of the air in your home, wherever you are in the world – that’s what Blueair Aware enables. With this smart technology you can monitor the quality of the air you’re breathing everyday...
How pure is the air where you work or live? Does it seem good or bad? Thankfully, Blueair’s innovative digital service Air View, lets you quickly get whatever information you need.
All you have to...
1. As many as 40 per cent of school children in the city of New Delhi have reduced lung capacity. To help change this, Blueair has started the Clean Air India Movement, initially donating 200 air...
Image above: Three men and a purifier. From left: Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.
Claesson Koivisto Rune is a Swedish partnership founded in Stockholm in 1995. Started as an...
UP CLOSE. A grain of pollen captured by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson who became famous for his macro images.
From the early 1970s to the present day there has been a sharp increase in...
Annelie Pompe
Born: 1981.
Brief history: Born near Gothenburg. Developed an early love of nature, especially for the ocean and mountains. Started climbing and freediving and continued...
We all need to breathe, but it’s such a natural thing that we tend not to think about it. However, we have recently become alarmed by what we breathe. As the effects of environmental degradation...
Sitting in his studio in an industrial part of Brooklyn, New York, designer Magnus Lundström is painting a walnut peppermill. Around us we can see the new Brooklyn arising. Gigantic steel-and-...
Ever since it was founded over 20 years ago in Stockholm, Blueair has been driven to provide people with air that’s as pure as nature intended. With constant updates and innovations in its air...
Few things make us feel as alive as the wind. Imagine walking around a corner, when you are unexpectedly pushed back by a sudden gust. Or think about pedalling a bike with a strong tailwind, and how...
For a work entitled Different Kinds of Air, Parsons-Lord recreated air as it had been at different stages of the Earth’s history and then served it like shots in a bar.
Although she doesn’t...
Diatoms are the microscopic world’s abstract artworks. Appearing in an infinite number of different geometrical shapes, diatoms are a type of algae found throughout the world’s oceans and rivers....
The UFO
1. Treehotel Sweden
Don’t just imagine drifting off to sleep high above the ground: that experience can be had in countless hotels around the world. Instead, imagine resting amidst sun-...
Breathing the air in Beijing has been compared to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
It’s a video clip you can’t easily forget – a fixed camera showing how the air above a highway in...
Image above: From left to right: Blueair Classic 280i, perfect for smaller rooms. Blueair Aware, a smart way to find out about air quality. Blueair Sense+. Blueair Pro L. Not all models are...
90-year
-olds make up the fastest growing age segment in
the world.
Breathing clean
Pollution-free air is one of the most important factors for a long and healthy life.
95%
of the food in...
Most people know that it’s important to have clean air, especially in the workplace. How many of us have been trapped in a crowded meeting room and witnessed how the suffocating environment makes...
