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Schools often do not tell community of lead in school’s water

Below you can learn how to borrow and use meters to inspect your school.

Is your school’s indoor air quality lowering learning?

Air quality
  • – Discover Startling Facts About Indoor Air Quality in Schools
  • – Expand Your Understanding of IAQ’s Impact on Learning
  • – Learn Why Indoor Air Quality is a Misunderstood Subject
  • – Read Stories About Successful Efforts in Schools (Coming Soon)
  • – Browse the Bibliography on IAQ for Further Reading
  • – Learn the Protocol for Surveying Indoor Air Quality
  • – Borrow A Free Monitor to Test IAQ in Your School, Workplace, or Home

Radon is 2nd cause of lung cancer -How much radon does your school have?

Protect Your Child From Radon in Schools
  • – Investigate Radon Pollution in Your Home or School
  • – Attend a Webinar on Radon Gas in Homes
  • – Read Media Stories About Radon in Schools
    • – Colorado’s flawed law fails to protect students
    • – Tampa school administrators failed to follow the law
    • – 400 schools in New York State high radon areas fail to test
  • – Browse the Bibliography on Radon in Schools
  • – Search for Radon Data by NC County
  • – Borrow Radon Detection Tools
  • – Learn About North Carolina’s Radon Program
  • – Watch a Two-Minute Video About Risk from Radon

Does your school have lead in it’s drinking water?

Ensuring Lead Free Drinking Water In Your Kids School
  • – Many States Don’t Require Lead Testing
    • – U.S. Schools Are Failing to Protect Kids
    • – School Drinking Water Worse Than Previously Thought
    • – Massachusetts Study lays out a survey methodology and results
  • – Bibliography of Articles About Lead in Drinking Water
  • – Schools often do not tell community of lead in school’s water
    • – Lead in Water: St. Paul Schools
    • – Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water
    • – Lead found in Water at 97 Percent of Schools Voluntarily Tested by Washington State
    • – Schools Across the U.S. Find Elevated Lead Levels in Drinking Water
    • – Lead Testing in San Diego Schools
  • – Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
  • – K-12 Lesson Plans to Teach About Lead
  • – Students Report Results of Testing Raleigh School
  • – Borrow Tools to survey for lead in drinking water
  • – Download Protocol for testing school drinking water
  • – Cities Conceal Risk of Lead Poisoning from Citizens
    • – Newark Officials Concealed Lead in Drinking Water
    • – 33 Cities Cheated When Testing For Lead
    • – New York’s Lead Poisoning is Worse
    • – “Fix it!”: Newark residents concerned over lead in water supply
    • – New Orleans Officials Have Covered Up Lead Report
    • – At Least 2% of US Public Water Systems are like Flint’s
  • – NYC Schools Left 1000’s of Lead Contaminated Water Spouts Unaddressed for Months
  • – All Maine schools to begin testing drinking water for lead under new state law

Coming Soon! Below are some projects that we are starting.


Natural Gas Leaks
  • – Making invisible methane leaks in city environments visible
    • – Methane is a major contributor to climate change
    • – Methane Activists in Richmond Detect Potentially Dangerous Gas Leaks
  • – Visualize Global Warming
  • – Inspecting for Climate Changing Refrigerant Gasses
    • – Refrigerent Gasses
    • Leaking Havoc
    • – Things you should know about Refrigerant Gasses
    • – Trader Joe’s Hit With HUGE Fine by EPA
  • – Revealing invisible micro-plastics in your environment
    • – Plastic ingestion by people could be equating to a credit card a week
    • – Bibliography on Microplastics
    • – Do you know you eat enough plastic each week to make a credit card?
    • – Plastic Free Tea Bags – Safe, Sustainable and Compostable!
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