Cough, cough – greetings from hazy Singapore. Here we’ve
been encountering a month worth of Beijing-style air, not from factories but from
clearing forests for palm oil farms in Indonesia.
The haze varies each year in its severity but this year it’s
not only been severe but it’s been very long lived. While we’ve been hiding out
inside we’ve learned a few things during the worst haze this year.
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| No those aren't storm clouds |
- PSI is different than AQI (Air Quality Index – which most of the world uses.) This is Singapore’s own air rating system.
- While we think its bad at a 300+ psi in Singapore we can stay inside and turn on the air conditioner and our air purifiers. There are reports that in Indonesia it’s over 2000 psi.
- At over 300 psi, the Ministry closes their schools, like they did on Friday.
- In these conditions you want a mask that is labeled N95 to properly filter the air.
- You look ridiculous in a mask no matter how hard you try. (Raegen said I looked like Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Personally I was thinking more of a cartoon duck.)
- While we’d all love to boycott unsustainable palm oil so the harmful haze stops happening but it is literally in everything we use from margarine, lipgloss, vegetable oil to ice cream (gasp – not ice cream!)
- For a list of companies who are using sustainable palm oil click here. In case you’re curious, Target, Subway and Costco rank at the bottom.
- Most of the investors in these palm oil farms live in Singapore. Oh the irony.
Think
of us while you’re out on a jog or driving with the windows open and send some
fresh air karma our way!
Until
then,
Amy
& Raegen
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