The Pollution Detectives

Our Mission is to lend easy-to-use tools that make the invisible pollution visible.

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– Media stories about Radon in schools

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

– 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

– Many States Don’t Require Lead Testing
– Bibliography: Articles About Lead in Water
– Schools often do not tell community of lead in school’s water
– 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
– 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

– 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
– Revealing invisible micro-plastics in your environment