Can collecting dust on a sticky pad result in EPA review?
I am asking a question on behalf of a community member. They want to know:1) would collecting dust on a sticky pad, described here by @mathew and in the activity linked in the comments, could get the...
View ArticleLast coal plant in Chicago shut down
lead image from http://lvejo.org/News from February 2018:After an 11 year struggle, Little Village community and partners have succeeded in bringing enough pressure to shut down the last coal plant in...
View ArticleUC Berkeley research on pesticide exposure in youth
I just met Lisa Rico, a health educator at Natividad Medical Foundation who also works for the CHAMACOS study conducted through UC Berkley's School of Public Health. She introduced me to the many...
View ArticleBarnraising Newark 2018 run sheets
Here's our run sheet leading up to the Barnraising and Crisis Convening: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ibXIlYkH1_fGAQwpZn3MUaXUFx-AbxAj47B840vOxFI/edit#Here's the modified facilitator script:...
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Newark Barnraising & Crisis Convening 2018 group photo
Here's the group photo with the prompt of "excitement"!
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Newark Barnraising & Crisis Convening evaluation results
Core question resultsTotal number of respondents: 38 (7 on paper Friday PM, 18 on paper Sunday AM, 13 within two weeks after the event via GoogleForm). This is 63% of the 60 unique individuals recorded...
View ArticleConcept of social rules from Recurse Center
Sharing this excerpt from the Recurse Center in NYC https://www.recurse.com/manual because i think they have captured a lot in four very short and sweet "social rules":No feigning surpriseNo...
View ArticleMy VOC readings are maxing out at 9.99mg/cubic meter. Is there a better...
I am sharing this question on behalf of a community member who wishes to remain anonymous:Does anyone have any suggestions on a reasonably priced VOC meter? I'm asking because our Igeress measures to...
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Creating Public Lab's Logic Model
The University of California Davis Center for Citizen and Community Science worked with the staff of Public Lab to create a Logic Model that we could use in evaluating our impact. Here it is, both the...
View ArticleHow to create a Logic Model
Welcome Reader! I've provided some background information before listing the How-To steps farther down in this post. I will post a follow-up Activity on How To Measure Impact Against a Logic Model.Why...
View ArticleHow can we adjust the volume of the coqui?
Currently the speaker is very quiet, and i'm wondering how to raise it. It also crossed my mind that if it is made louder in the future, perhaps someone might want to lower it! Thank you.
View ArticleHow can we adjust the frequency of the coqui?
I sometimes enjoy the high frequency sounds of the coqui, but sometimes it's so high i actually can't hear it at all. I remember a former version of the coqui that was slowed down so much you could...
View ArticleSchedule grid for Appalachian Barnraising 2017
This was a small one! We only had a day and a half together, so we took advantage of this nice glassboard and dry erase markers to make a small grid.
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Treating policy as code
There are some discussions going on about how we might approach environmental regulation as a community -- understanding it, critiquing it, improving it -- here are my thoughts:Many folks are familiar...
View ArticleSave the Date Feb 22-24! Houston-Galveston Barnraising
Barnraisings are the closest thing we have to a Public Lab conference -- but with an emphasis on "doing stuff together." At a Barnraising, people from different backgrounds and different skill sets...
View ArticleEvent: Clean Air Council + Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Posting on behalf of the rural Pennsylvania community:Join us this Saturday to discuss the impact of 4 years of waste dumping in our rural community with the Clean Air Council + Delaware Riverkeeper...
View ArticleHas anyone used EPA's RETIGO to upload air quality data?
Back in 2016, there was an Open Hour about RETIGO, the EPA's "REAL-TIME GEOSPATIAL DATA VIEWER" (RETIGO) data platform -- has anyone tried viewing their data through this, or uploading their data to...
View ArticleWhat happens if I inhale too much formaldehyde?
Re-posting for a community member in Pennsylvania:>What are the symptoms of over exposure of too much inhalation of formaldehyde? Thanks!
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Report: 2019 Software Contributors Survey
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and...
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