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– Media stories about Radon in schools

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
  • – Raise your kid’s report card up to two letter grades
  • – Bibliography: Articles About CO2 Impacts on Learning
  • – Material on poor indoor air quality and Covid-19
    • – The New York Times Article
  • – Download a useful educational brochure: “Right Under Our Noses”
  • – Download Protocol for surveying indoor air quality in schools.
  • – Borrow Air Quality Detection Tools
  • – Don’t Spend Covid Funds on the Wrong Solution

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 Homes and Schools
  • Radon Gas in Homes Webinar
  • – 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
  • – Bibliography about Radon in Schools
  • – Look up Radon amounts in your county
  • – Borrow Radon Detection Tools
  • – The North Carolina Radon Program

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
    • – Massachusetts Study lays out a survey methodology and results
  • – Bibliography: Articles About Lead in 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 in Drinking Water
  • – Results of some school testing by students
    • – Students’ Report Exploris School Raleigh 11.22.19
    • – Exploris School Students’ Lead Testing Video
  • – 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
    • – Concerns mount over lead in Newark 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)
  • – 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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