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Breathe Better With AirCasting Actions
AirCasting Actions is a free resource for helping you and your community actively understand the air you are breathing and start taking action to improve it. Whether you’re a co...
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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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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: Education Edition
In the spring we had lots of fun teaching students how to make AirCasting compatible air monitors and luminescent accessories. For details on these educational programs, along ...
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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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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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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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AirCasting in Action
After taking time this weekend and yesterday to do more testing, we officially launched AirCasting today. Below I've described a couple of my recent sessions to illustrate AirC...
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