Municipal Infrastructure Is Cinema
A small love letter to Toronto’s snowstorm response, and the map that lets you watch it unfold.
Hey, I'm Amrit
I'm Amrit Sharma. I live in Toronto and I work at the intersection of air quality, climate, and open data.
I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at ecobee, where I work on grid resiliency programs across North America. Over a million smart thermostats are enrolled in the programs I help design. The goal is to keep the lights on during heat waves and winter storms.
I've been building air quality tools since 2015. Smokey delivered 740,000 air quality reports across 19 countries. The Emoji Air Pollution Map got featured by NASA. This year I launched Pradooshan.com for Indian cities, OMGwildfires.com for wildfire smoke, and BreathingKills.com to show what PM2.5 actually does to a human life. I'm also a board member of OpenAQ, which aggregates over 2 billion data points from 134 countries.
The Odyssey Is Playing on 41 IMAX 70mm Screens. Nine Are in Canada.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has turned IMAX 70mm into one of the hardest movie tickets on Earth. Canada has nine venues on the current list.
Toronto’s Air Is Better Today. For Now.
Toronto's air quality update and a plain-English guide to AQHI conditions and forecasts.
Torontonians Woke Up in a Mad Max Movie with Terrible Air Quality
Toronto's severe wildfire-smoke event, the local health risk, and why open air-quality data matters.
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- OpenAQ
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- Board Member, Governing Board
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- Air Ventures
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