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The Empowering Virtues of Citizen Science: Claiming Clean Air in Brussels
The AirCasting platform is used by individuals, communities, and institutions around the world to measure air pollution. In a recently published article, Nicola da Schio, a post...
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To Improve Children's Health, Empower Communities
Air quality is not normally one of the metrics taken into account by planners, architects, and developers when deciding what to build and where to build it but it should be. Kno...
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NYC Community Organizations Use AirCasting to Study Hyperlocal Air Quality
Air pollution levels in New York City can vary dramatically minute-to-minute and block-to-block, however, this variation is not captured by the New York State air monitoring net...
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New York Times Reports on Personal Pollution Exposures Using AirBeam2
In reporting their story, “Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?”, The New York Times selected the AirBeam2 as their primary tool for measuring personal exposures to parti...
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Using Community Science & Open Source Tools to Promote Community Health
UPROSE staffers Jason Gomez and Brian Gonzalez - seen above walking the streets of Sunset Park, Brooklyn - discuss how they used the AirBeam + AirCasting to measure air pollutio...
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Can an App Make Our Cities More Breathable?
A volunteer with the social justice non-profit El Puente, measures the air quality inside a community garden located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. El Puente describes their use of ...
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Leveraging AirBeam Data to Inform Policy Decisions
Garbage zoning will dramatically reduce vehicle miles traveled by eliminating overlapping routes while serving the same business customers. Currently there are blocks in Manhatt...
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AirCasting & HabitatMap in the News!
The New York Times followed us around while we went AirCasting, then wrote a story and made a video about it. The story is excellent in that it covers not only AirCasting but a ...
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My Air, My Health Challenge Update
We submitted our solution to the My Air, My Health Challenge judges a few weeks back. We won't know who won until they make the official announcement at the Health Datapalooza I...
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AirCasting from Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Mayeta Clark, an intern at the New York Times video desk, contacted me a few months back to discuss AirCasting. I suggested that rather than do a sit-down interview, she capture...
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My Air, My Health Challenge
We're delighted to be finalists for the EPA/NIEHS/HHS sponsored My Air, My Health Challenge. Together with researchers and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University and New York...
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What Goes Down Must Come Up: Addressing Vapor Intrusion in New York City
Vapor intrusion describes the process whereby volatile chemicals migrate from contaminated soil and/or groundwater and enter buildings through cracks or perforations in slabs or...
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Greenpeace Poison Gas Disaster Map!
This scary map from Greenpeace maps U.S. chemical plants and their potential poison gas cloud fallout zones. Like the EPA greenhouse gas map I blogged about a few weeks back, t...
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EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Map
The EPA recently released an interactive online greenhouse gas map that includes emissions data for individual facilities. I've been following the evolution of the EPA's mappi...
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