Neighbors for Clean Air
Co-Creating Knowledge Through Community Engaged Science
Neighbors for Clean Air is a community engaged science project that aims to empower residents with high quality data to make informed decisions about health and guide positive environmental change.
We are a partnership between community scientists, non-profits, and researchers, who will work together to collect, interpret, and disseminate data from a network of air quality sampling devices at resident and community hosted sites across the Greater Midway and Frogtown area.
Community engaged air monitoring
Guided by a community-first approach, this project aims to learn:
- what heavy metal pollutants are in our neighborhoods
- where these pollutants are concentrated
- how this air pollution exacerbates existing health inequities
- how to prevent and mitigate air pollution at a hyper-local scale
Accessible data to empower neighbors
Data from this project is created in partnership with our neighbors and will be:
- Freely available to the public
- Provide information in a format that is easy to understand
- Prioritizes the issues that are most important to community members
- Emphasize the contributions and mutual benefit of involving community
Pathways to a future with cleaner, healthier air
Community participation is welcome and encouraged at every stage of this project. By co-creating knowledge, we ensure that we all have access to the information we need to not only protect ourselves and our loved ones from the impacts of exposure to poor air quality, but to make informed decisions that move us toward a cleaner, healthier future for all.
Get involved!
- Learn more about air quality
- Apply to host a sampling device
- Stay up to date by signing up for updates through our newsletter
- Check out our calendar to find events and committee meetings!
Project partners
This project would not be possible without funding from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as well as support from our partners below.