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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
  • – 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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