Featured Investigation

🏠 Household Dust

Household dust can contain information about our indoor environment, including allergens, mold, chemicals, and particles that accumulate over time.

Questions

What can household dust reveal about our homes?

How do homes differ after water damage?

What patterns emerge when many homes are tested?

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🌬 Indoor Air

The quality of indoor air can be influenced by building materials, ventilation, outdoor conditions, and everyday activities. Mold, mites, and dust, cleaning chemicals and other compounds can contribute to significant health impacts. Let's learn more about the places we spend the most time in.

Questions

What compounds are commonly present indoors?

What organisms are present?

What's harmless and what has impacts on our short- and long-term health?

How do ventilation and filtration affect indoor air quality?

Which environmental factors deserve further investigation?

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💧 Water

Clean drinking water is something most of us depend on every day, yet water quality can vary by source, treatment, plumbing, and location. This includes bottled water, municipal water, irrigation water. We'll gather information, run tests on samples at local labs, and publish our findings.

Questions

How does drinking water vary between communities?

Is bottled water free from chemicals?

Is spring water better than filtered water?

Which contaminants should be tested?

How effective are common home filtration systems?

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🌎 Community Environment

Communities often have questions about their local environment that aren't fully answered through routine monitoring. We'll do air sampling, landscape sampling, and check local food and produce. We'll test & report publicly.

Questions

How do neighborhoods differ in environmental exposures?

Which community concerns deserve independent investigation?

How can shared testing improve local understanding?

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Have an Idea?

Many of the most important investigations begin with a question from someone in the community.

If there's something you'd like to understand about your water, home, workplace, neighborhood, or local environment, we'd love to hear about it.

Interested in participating, volunteering a sample, sharing your experience, or contributing your expertise? Please complete our Contact & Participation Interest Form. We'd love to hear from you.