What Will You Do Once You Know What’s In Your Air?

A free resource for helping you and your community actively understand the air you are breathing and start taking action to improve it.

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The AirCasting Actions digital toolkit is a simple step-by-step guide to air quality monitoring, campaigns, and curriculum building.

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Air Quality
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The Factsheet

The air we breathe is all around us and unfortunately, that air isn’t always clean. Dirty air is responsible for millions of premature deaths globally every year.

What makes polluted air particularly confounding is that it’s largely invisible. Using sight or smell or paying attention to our bodies’ responses, we may sense the air is not fresh and clean, but we have a hard time discerning how much and what type of pollution is present in the air we’re breathing and how it changes from minute to minute and location to location. The good news is air pollution can be measured on a hyperlocal scale and it can be reduced and/or avoided. A good start is to better understand the root causes of pollution and their impact.

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User
Stories

  • “Know what you are exposed to, it will literally save your life!”

    – Ruzmyn Vilcassim

    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

  • “The AirBeam increases visibility of what’s invisible.”

    – Dawn Roberts-Semple

    YORK COLLEGE, CUNY

  • “AirCasting puts air quality data collection in the hands of ordinary people and under-resourced organizations. Also, it has been a powerful experience for people impacted by poor air quality to measure air quality first hand.”

    -Jen Chantrtanapichate

    CLEANUP NORTH BROOKLYN

  • “The AirBeam is a critical tool for enabling communities to understand and advocate for change in their local environments.”

     – Andrew Mondschein

    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

  • “The AirBeam is a low-cost and very accessible way to put hyperlocal air quality data in the hands of community members who need it the most, who are most affected by poor air quality, and who can use it as a starting point to understand personal exposures to air pollution.”

    -Wendy Gutschow

    USC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS

  • “The AirBeam is an essential tool for citizen science and learning about air quality in our classroom.”

    -Anna Mello

    THE CHAPLIN SCHOOL

  • “AirBeam + AirCasting generates a lot of classroom excitement and good discussion when teaching 8th graders about air pollution.”

    – Charles Stanier

    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

  • “AirCasting is an easy and interesting way to find out how the air quality around you is and use this data to discuss ways of improving your community.”

    – Henrique S. Benites

    UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WHALES

  • “AirBeams are a great way to show students of all ages what is in the air they are breathing in real time. It is an invaluable tool to provide education and outreach about air pollution sources and how small changes can make a big difference.”

    – Anna Leonard

    PIEDMONT TRIAD REGIONAL COUNCIL

  • “Being able to see how a truck passing by impacts our air inspires folks to advocate for themselves and their community – as well as sparking interest and curiosity into how these technologies work from a back-end perspective.”

    – Sadie Coughlin-Prego

    QUEENSBRIDGE TECH LAB

Quick access to helpful resources.

Whether you are a concerned individual or household, a community-based organization, or a teacher the AirCasting Actions digital toolkit has what you need to get started with air quality monitoring. Navigate to your focus area for guides, worksheets, inspiration, and activities to help inform and activate action plans for cleaner air.

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Individual Monitoring

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About This
Toolkit

AIRCASTING TOOLKIT

Equitable Access to Air Quality Educational Materials and Tools

AirCasting Actions was designed to provide free access to modular, intent-based educational resources, research, how-to guides, and success stories. This digital toolkit consists of step-by-step planning guidance, printable teacher day-by-day curriculum, student worksheets, campaign data collection spreadsheets, and video tutorials to aid in personal air quality monitoring, air quality curriculum development, and community air quality campaigns. This site was designed to meet you where you are, whether you are an individual just learning about air pollution, an instructor wanting to incorporate environmental science into your classroom, or are part of an organized community effort and ready to build your air quality campaign.

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