The nonprofit Public Laboratory was explicitly created to develop tools that any one can use to monitor environmental issues. (image of super expensive env. monitoring tool that only helps industry) **Conventional Environmental Monitoring tools are designed for Industry** **History of Citizen Envionrmental Monitoring** Civic Science began about 13 years ago . . . it's growing . . . . and it depends on accessible monitoring tools for nonexperts . . . (image of a tool developed to address a symptom not the toxicology) **Tools are often developed around symptoms not toxicology.** Explanation . . . . . (image of a newspaper heading saying something like "INDUSTRY FINDS XSXX DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER") We use a model of health symptom correlation not toxicology causation to examine the effects of our environment on our health . . . . more on why this makes sense . . . **We build on the framework of environmental justice** aldjflkajdlfkjafljalkfjakjf . . . . Navigation Bar: [New Comer Landing Page] , [Developing Open Source Tools with Public Lab Draft Page]