Matthews Township, NC. Home of beautiful weather, the Charlotte Independence, and now a custom built air quality sensor station. Over the summer one of Clean Air Carolina’s AirKeepers, and Matthews resident, Gordon Miller, participated in special work with us...
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In October students at the new J. T. Williams Montessori School in Charlotte became citizen scientists as they used portable air sensors and tablets equipped with GPS to measure levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), an invisible air pollutant on their school...
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While the parents are waiting in “kiss and go” lanes to drop off their kids, their cars idle. Matthew Adams from the University of Toronto wanted to know if this caused a significant increase in the particulate matter at schools. After surveying the cars at various...
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Ever since I started college, people have been asking me what I want to study or what I plan to pursue as a major. When I tell them that I am interested in the environment and medicine, they are always perplexed. They ask me how I am interested in two topics that have...
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Summer is the time for yard work. Love it or hate it, millions of Americans maintain lawns at their homes, using a variety of tools. Those tools can be a source of pollution, as our AirKeeper Robert Parr found out. Gas-powered lawn mowers are not subject to the same...
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On Thursday, October 8th, Citizen Science Manager Calvin Cupini delivered a crash course on air quality and public health concerns of particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone to members of the Graduate Public Health Association (GPHA) at UNC Charlotte. Air...
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Kimberly Price took a deep breath before blowing through a stirring straw. Immediately she noticed how challenging it was to breathe. The narrow straw illustrated the difficulty of breathing during an asthma attack. Neasha Graves from the University of North...
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Biomass Energy in NC On Saturday, September 29th, Clean Air Carolina staff traveled to Wilmington, NC for the first ever Wood Pellet Forum. The event was a special meeting of stakeholders, advocates, economists, scientists and the general public focusing on the...
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"Union County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state, filled with new developments, traffic, and businesses sprouting up on every corner. One of the concerns of all that sprawl and development is that the once quiet, peaceful rural areas will soon become...
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Growing up in the 1960’s Civil Rights era I speak as an advocate for justice and equality, I see every day as an opportunity to create the compassionate world we want to live in. As a writer, I feel it is my obligation to hold a mirror up to the world to remind us to...
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