Community Air Monitoring
Clean Air is one of nine organizations statewide which is currently running a Community Air Monitoring Capacity-Building Program funded by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Justice Office. Click here to read the full press release from NYS DEC.
We are coming towards the end of our first cohort project, to find community leaders to host Purple Air Monitors at their homes, schools, churches, community centers or businesses, and run neighborhood-level community air monitoring programs. We have a few more spaces for placements, especially in environmental justice areas near industrial corridors in first ring suburbs, like in the Town of Tonawanda near River Road – click here to apply to be a Community Leader/be a host site, or to sign up to learn more.
As part of this initiative, we are also working with the TESA Collective to develop a card game to educate the general public about air quality and community organizing – please reach out to Bridge if you are interested in joining this effort. We are nearing the end of this portion of the project and are workshopping ideas for the name now!
We also now have a free downloadable version available – feel free to print the cards off, play with friends, and join us at community events where we will be playing the game with attendees!
You can look at realtime air quality data on Purple Air’s website by clicking here.
Check out this blog post for resources about wildfire smoke.
The DEC also recently shared the results of the Mobile Air Monitoring project for the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Disadvantaged Communities – click here to see the map, or read our blog post summary.