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Air quality sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Air quality.

Pollution from idling cars exhause - 150 balloons filled by the exhaust of an idling car in a minuteIdlingThe Tragedy of the Commons illustration: a cross-section of land shows a shared source of underground water being heavily used by one with access to it, leaving very little for everyone else. The tragedy of the commonsHow to grow your own fresh air illustration: examples of common houseplants that help create an environment with relatively cleaner air; the Areca Palm, Mother-in-law's Tongue and the Money Plant. How to grow your own fresh airAtmospheric Perspective illustration: a large vista shows undulating hilltops for as far as the eye can see, but we note that the further away these contours are, the colour and tone that we experience becomes more and more washed out. Atmospheric perspectiveBortle ScaleA busy street showing how the pollution varies in different locations compared to a back street which is much cleanerPollution is highly localized: take the back streets
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