Did you know that Kamloops has worse air quality than Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary? Or that our city has not one but multiple air sheds that are constantly changing on a minute by minute basis?
That's according to Dr. Michael Mehta, an environmental social scientist at Thompson Rivers University. We recently spoke with him about a new initiative called PurpleAir, an innovative way of monitoring air quality in real time using a multitude of low cost, high technology, coffee cup sized sensors.
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