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Think Your Indoor Air Is Clean? Check Again.
Most people picture air pollution as something that happens outside—traffic exhaust, factory smoke, wildfire haze drifting in from somewhere else. And the outdoor picture is gen...
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Breathing Easier: How Green Spaces Shape Air Quality in Jordan’s Cities
In Jordan’s semi-arid cities like Amman and Irbid, green spaces do more than offer recreation—they help improve public health by reducing pollution. Researchers used the AirBeam to ask: do greener neighborhoods have cleaner air?
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Louisiana’s Ban on Community Air Monitoring is an Attack on Science & Free Speech
Louisiana legislators passed a “million-dollar muzzle,” which barred the use of community-gathered air-quality data to advocate for pollution control and enforcement, with fines as high as $1 million per violation.
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AirBeam Mini vs. PurpleAir: The Clear Choice for Clean Air Monitoring
When it comes to air quality monitoring, there’s no shortage of options, but not all monitors are built with you in mind. If you’re looking for a monitor that’s accurate, mobile...
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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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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
New York City's official air monitors are too sparse to capture how pollution changes from block to block. Here is how community organizations mapped their own air, and what they found.
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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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1,000 AirBeams Worldwide
With over 1,000 AirBeams in use worldwide and more than 100 million data points, the AirCasting platform is now one of the largest open-source databases of community-collected a...
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AirCasting Youth
AirCasting Youth is an educational program for high school students that teaches how to build AirCasting air quality instruments, develop air quality monitoring plans, utilize t...
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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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