New op-ed on decades of PFAS exposure in FL women’s prisons co-authored with Paula Grieve, a currently incarcerated woman who has been leading the investigation into this issue.
tampabay.com/opinion/2024/03…
ALT Areal image of Florida prison with contaminated drinking water featuring the text: “In Central Florida Prisons, Women Forced to Drink Polluted Water” and “Tampa Bay Times op-ed”. Buildings are single story barracks around a courtyard with a white water tower in the corner.
December Meetup of Public Lab veteran Code Community Coordinators in Nairobi 🌍
✨Cess✨ & ✨Ruth✨
Plus the kindest members of #Nairobi's open source mentorship community and a bonus sighting of @lizbarry
Based on interviews with community organizers, this article offers analysis of how activists leverage data (and desire to further leverage data) to organize at the intersection of prisons and environmental injustice
Based on interviews with community organizers, this article offers analysis of how activists leverage data (and desire to further leverage data) to organize at the intersection of prisons and environmental injustice
On Friday, a massive chemical fire erupted at the Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley". As our partners and clients @CCOStJohn & @RISEStJames have said, local communities deserve transparency & accountability. It's time to put people first.
Have you used components from Seeed Studio for environmental monitoring projects? Share your story and win $1000 to travel to @makerfaire in #Shenzhen. Would be exciting to have a Public Labber representing!
Details:
seeedstudio.com/blog/2023/06…
@PublicLab runs great barnraisings, which are similar. One fave activity is people producing a simple one page newspaper each day by people just drawing/writing on one poster paper what they learned or humorous tidbits. Photo taken and copies printed to hand out.
Hey Public Lab community, seems like you might have things to say on landscapes of risk and geographic vs scientific ways of knowing, check out this call for #AAG2023:
📢 Call for papers for #AAG2023. We’re organising a panel for everyone researching disasters to have been told their work isn’t real ‘science’! Non-real scientists unite in sending us your abstracts on your weird and wonderful research please.
I'm honored to share "Refining Relationships: How an Unlikely Community–Scientist Partnership Led to a Historic Environmental Justice Victory" (OA) co-authored by 5 resident-organizers, a retired state scientist, and other allies liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1…
ALT A woman with celebratory hands in the air as the smokestacks of a coke refinery are demolished
ALT Screen cap of article title, authors, abstract and keywords
Wow! It’s been exhilarating.
I’m contributing to @PublicLab and it has been an awesome week. Learning a lot, officially became an OSS Contributor😌😌 and got to help a lot of people. Thanks to my mentors @B_eautifulChaos@CessWairimu254@jywarren @erhisoghenetega and @outreachy
It's been a week-long contributing to Outreachy projects.
Dear Outreachy December 2022- March 2023 applicants, summarize your experience.
How have the past few days been?
#OutreachyInternships#Internship#OpenSource
It was a fantastic day!! Thanks #dundee#FestivalOfTheFuture for organising and @MarkCutler4 for bringing the fun spectrometer kit. Hope our workshop participants check out @PublicLab. They were a great resource. ✌🏻
We’ve been @dundeeuni ‘s Festival of the Future outreach event @Overgate today.
🛰🌱Satellites & spectrometry with @dr_alexmorel@MarkCutler4
❄️🧊Glaciers with @glacio_cook
💧🧻Water treatment and ‘flushable’ (???) wet wipes with @DrSarahHalliday
ALT Display of satellite remote sensing imagery
ALT A table top glacier made from pva glue
ALT An experiment to show how well wet wipes break down in water (answer: not well!)
Federally funded research should be freely accessible to the American public. From environmental justice to cancer breakthroughs to more sustainable farming, immediate access to America’s research jumpstarts innovation everywhere.
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upd…
The @EPA is launching the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, truly elevating environmental justice to the highest levels of the agency. Years of hard work from activists all over the country have brought us to this.