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 […]
Category: Current Projects
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 […]
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 […]
Technical Assistance
E2I2 provides ongoing technical assistance to community partners on a variety of projects. For example, we analyzed and provided data for the May 2023 toxins and pollution report “The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same. Living and Dying in Cancer Alley” supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals campaign.
Environmental & Maternal Health
People often do not think about the connection between climate change, pollution, and maternal health. Read to learn more about the intersection of maternal and environmental justice and how pregnant people can protect themselves against environmental harms. E2I2 is actively exploring community-based projects in this space. Extreme heat is a threat to the health of […]