What can you do to protect and improve your community’s water? Here are seven examples to introduce you to different types of green infrastructure, and model organizations that are improving water quality in their communities.
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Water Quality Monitoring in 2020: Which Method Should You Choose?
The Flint crisis made water quality monitoring a hot-button issue. How can we conduct water quality monitoring accurately, affordably, and democratically?
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17 Environmental Grants To Fund Your Project
Are you part of a nonprofit, community based-organization, or an individual looking for funding for your next environmental project? There are a bountiful amount of options for grants with a community stewardship angle.
Here is a list of the most popular and generous environmental grants and the foundations that give them out.
Which City Has the Best Water?
Which city in the US has the best water? Turns out, this simple question has a pretty complicated answer.
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Air Quality Testing: A Survey of the Leading Options
Air quality monitoring has long been costly, difficult, and geographically limited. A new generation of IOT enabled sensors are allowing efficient, cost-effective, localized air quality testing—not only by governments, but by NGOs and concerned citizens, too.
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Power To All The Gretas
Greta Thunberg is a powerful climate change activist, but so are all the other Gretas, including you. Here is how you can make more sustainable decisions in 2020.
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Sensors at the Office: An Experiment in Indoor Air Quality Testing
We conducted a crowd science experiment around indoor air quality testing in multiple offices around NYC. The results were surprising to say the least…
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Energy Technologies: People Are Needed Too
Energy technologies show the furture of power, but technology won’t solve all of our problems—people and policies need to evolve too.
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The Path to 2030: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & IoT
In 2015, the United Nations established the 17 Sustainable Development Goals which make up a systematic global framework to end poverty and protect our planet by 2030. Emerging technologies like the Internet of Things will have a big impact on helping to reach these goals, while also providing economic incentives to the private sector. Here’s how.
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How to Build a Soil Moisture Monitoring System (Tutorial)
Soil moisture monitoring can improve crop yields, forecast the weather, predict droughts, provide flood warnings, influence policy recommendations, and combat climate change. This tutorial will walk you through building a complete system including how to make a weatherproof enclosure.
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