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When Fresh Scents Turn Toxic: How Candles and Incense Impact Your Health
Candles, incense, and air fresheners are beloved for creating ambiance and masking odors, but many of these seemingly harmless products release hidden pollutants into your indoor air.
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What Do Those Colored Dots Mean? Understanding the Air Quality Index (AQI)
Have you ever opened the AirCasting map, seen those brightly colored dots, and wondered what they mean? Each dot shows the local air quality, scored on the Air Quality Index (AQI). Once you can read the colors, you can make smarter, healthier choices about the air around you.
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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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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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Raspberry Pi AirBeam Data Logger
Every semester I tell my students at Medgar Evers College that to be a great research chemist, you need to be a bit of everything: a bit plumber, a bit electrician, and especial...
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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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Make Your Own AirCasting Particle Monitor
Join us Tuesday, October 8th for the third installment of Make Magazine's Urban Sensor Hack. The event takes place on Google Hangout and is free and open to the public. During o...
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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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Go With the Flow: Investigate Your Water System!
We are delighted to introduce Go With the Flow, part of HabitatMap’s MapThink Toolkit series. Go With the Flow is a short-term group research project that empowers high school s...
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Lighten Up! Introducing AirCasting Luminescence
We've just released the step-by-step instruction manual detailing how to make your own AirCasting luminescent apparel. AirCasting Luminescence uses a IOIO microcontroller to con...
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Meet the AirCasting Air Monitor
We’re excited to announce the release of the step-by-step instruction manual for the AirCasting Air Monitor. This handy guide has all the information you need to build your very...
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