Community Update
12/1/2020
Globally Unified Air Quality is committed to keeping you informed about air quality! Stay updated on our air quality monitoring efforts as well as up-to-date air quality news.
“Ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, acute and chronic respiratory diseases.”
Company Updates
The GUAQ team is now hiring! We are looking to grow our software team with curious and driven individuals in varying part-time capacities. For more information, visit our linkedin page. Over the past few months, our software team has continued to make progress on our mobile application. We are looking forward to releasing an application that will enable individuals ease of access to work directly with the data collected by their devices.
On the hardware front, we’ve been putting together a more permanent workshop laboratory setting for testing and development. It’s been a long time coming but we now have a regular space for the hardware team to work on our manufacturing process and iterate more quickly with new hardware revisions. We look forward to using this space to accelerate the pace at which we can develop and get devices out into the world.
In addition to our technical progress, we are finally ready to share our new icons and branding. Having been using the same core assets since the beginning, we felt that the growing GUAQ team deserved a freshened-up set of logos to represent the maturity and refinement of our whole operation. We hope you like them as much as we do!
Finally, the GUAQ team has furthered our efforts in connecting with underserved communities. We strive to work with these communities to help them gather crucial air quality data. With our GUAQ devices and data, these communities will be able to take their first steps towards air quality reform.
Air Quality News
The Clean Air Act saved 1.5 billion birds
November 25, 2020
"Reducing pollution has positive impacts in unexpected places and provides an additional policy lever for conservation efforts"
US emissions plummeted this year—for all the wrong reasons
November 19, 2020
“We don’t want to solve climate change by constraining consumption or banking on human suffering. We need to do it by cleaning up the ways we generate energy, produce food, and move people and products around."
MRI Reveals Air Pollution Impact on Dementia Risk in Women
November 18, 2020
"High levels of air pollution can put women in their 70s and 80s at a higher risk for developing a brain shrinkage that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease"