TakingSpace Blog
community-based-organization
- Health
Using Citizen 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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