About the
AirCasting Actions 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 tutorials, 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, useful contacts, helpful info, and quick-start 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.
AirCasting Actions was created to offer equitable access to lessons, experiments, learning guides, and curriculum. This digital collection of resources is brought to you by HabitatMap as an extension of its mission “we make technologies accessible so communities facing disproportionate environmental burdens can advocate for equity and improved quality of life.”
HabitatMap is an environmental technology non-profit building open-source, free, and low-cost environmental monitoring and data visualization solutions. Our tools empower organizations and citizen scientists to measure pollution and advocate for equitable solutions to environmental health issues. We focus on low-income communities and communities of color living with disproportionate environmental burdens.
Our central data visualization platform – AirCasting – and its companion palm-sized air quality measurement device – AirBeam – support schools, researchers, community-based organizations, municipalities, and regulatory agencies in obtaining valid environmental data that can be used to make decisions in real-time and craft data-informed policy.
Funding for the AirCasting Actions Toolkit was provided by The Clean Air Fund, Lush Charity Pot, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation via an Environmental Benefit Project. Website, graphic, and information design for the AirCasting Actions Toolkit were provided by Consequence of Innovation.
Some of the Non-profit section AirCasting Actions Toolkit materials were first drafted in collaboration with Jill Johnston and Wendy Gutschow of the University of Southern California Environmental Health Centers as part of a Workshop entitled “Approaches in Community Participatory Air Monitoring” organized for the International Society of Exposure Science 2020 Annual Conference.
Some of the Non-profit section AirCasting Actions Toolkit materials were first drafted in collaboration with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and their member organizations as part of the CAMP-EJ project.
Some of the Teacher section AirCasting Actions Toolkit materials were inspired by and borrow from Clean Air Partners “On the Air” curriculum.
The AirCasting Actions Preplanning Worksheet was inspired by and borrows from the “Air Monitoring Action Plan” developed by the University of Rochester Environmental Health Sciences Center and their partners.
The AirCasting Actions Traffic Tracking Guide was first drafted in collaboration with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and their member organizations to support research and advocacy directed at reforming how New York City regulates the commercial waste sector. The guide was further updated based on materials developed by the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center.
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