The Air Isn’t Fair

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Community Research: A Catalyst for Social Impact?

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org

The Air Isn’t Fair

After protest chants of “I can’t breath!,” have faded from our streets, we can look at another important social and equity issue: Poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) affecting millions of students in our schools. For decades, schools–especially schools in low income districts–have been failing to provide students with the level of air quality which we…
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

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Here is something that I hope that we will try.

First, create a chart of objectives, actions and goals with timelines. What you want to happen and when.
Make each of these specific to one day and one kid. Something that you could take a picture of when it happens.

Like Brenda, a 4th grader won’t have an asthma attack at school any time after Jan 4th, 2013.
Or after school renovations on May 16th, 2012 Johnny Marx in 1st grade can stay all day at school instead of having to wait for his mother to leave work and pick him up because school was canceled for excessive heat.
Or Latasha in kindergarten reading her first new book as the reading aid helps her to sound out the long words.

Both the reading aid and the book were funded with energy savings that the school created.
Keep those kids in your head every day.
Greet them in the morning when you wake up.
Go to bed thinking of them.
They should be sitting on your lap and riding on your shoulders.
So when someone in the meeting explains that this is going to take a few years or we just don’t have the resources for this, you will be their voice.

And you will be there to remind everyone that NOW is a very good time to change the world for these kids.

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