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Community Air Pollution Monitoring

This first of its kind, community monitoring project is funded in part by the Environmental Protection Agency. E2I2 is installing tailored, solar-powered, community-owned air pollution monitoring sensors to collect real time, continuous pollution data in St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The sensors are calibrated to collect data on PM 2.5, ethylene oxide, and chloroprene […]

Community Engagement and Mobilization

Funded by the EPA Office of Water, E2I2 developed a methodology to improve the structure and content of public hearings, the setting of environmental priorities and the process of consultation with community members that included disenfranchised, diverse voices. This process involved the development of a survey mechanism, directed and focused educational materials, a series of […]

Community Assessment, Education, and Training

Funded by the North American Association for Environmental Education, we provided technical environmental education in the East End of Newport News in conjunction with the C. Waldo Scott Center for H.O.P.E. Workshops and activities expanded the capacity of residents to participate effectively in community decision making. In the Blackwell Community in Richmond, VA, E2I2 conducted […]

Community Engaged Learning

Power over Pollution (POP) is E2I2’s community-centered data education and date literacy curriculum series. POP is grounded in principles of environmental justice and based on Paolo Freire’s critical pedagogy which treats the learner as a co-creator of knowledge. Therefore, POP does not use traditional top-down educational teaching tactics. Rather, POP instructors use interactive, hands-on activities, […]

Environmental Justice DataHub

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) was awarded a grant to establish the creation of the Environmental Justice (EJ) Data Action Portal, an interactive online portal to provide environmental justice organizations the ability to access environmental health data relevant to the needs of their communities.  E2I2 is a sub-contractor to Intellectual Concepts, LLC […]

Community Assessment, Education, and Training

Funded by the North American Association for Environmental Education, we provided technical environmental education in the East End of Newport News in conjunction with the C. Waldo Scott Center for H.O.P.E. Workshops and activities expanded the capacity of residents to participate effectively in community decision making. In the Blackwell Community in Richmond, VA, E2I2 conducted […]

Community Engagement and Mobilization

Funded by the EPA Office of Water, E2I2 developed a methodology to improve the structure and content of public hearings, the setting of environmental priorities and the process of consultation with community members that included disenfranchised, diverse voices. This process involved the development of a survey mechanism, directed and focused educational materials, a series of […]

Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping & Community Data Analysis

There is more environmental justice data available than ever before. However, the data lives in different locations on the internet and among different federal, state, and local agencies. It is often hard to access and to understand.  To help communities access and use data, E2I2 provides communities with targeted GIS maps for a variety of […]