Community science projects begin when frontline leaders facing environmental injustice set goals and go about producing the knowledge needed for self-determination. Projects follow a non-linear trajectory that may include organizing, mobilization, empirical documentation, and advocacy based on the results.
Read about milestones achieved by projects around the world on the Stories page.
Projects
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Approaches
There are a few main approaches for collecting environmental evidence that documents reality and supports locally held goals:
- Establishment of a baseline → change detection
- Environmental surveillance (Internet of Things, trend spotting)
- Exploring existing data (FOIA, data science, close reading)
- Watchdogging, hotspotting, bounty hunting
- Study Design with a disprovable hypothesis
In Public Lab's educational work, we use the following framework:
Community science projects begin when frontline leaders facing environmental injustice set goals and go about producing the knowledge needed for self-determination. Projects follow a non-linear trajectory that may include organizing, mobilization, empirical documentation, and [advocacy](/sandbox-advocacy) based on the results.
Read about milestones achieved by projects around the world on the [Stories page](/stories).
### Projects
Title |
Updated |
Version |
Views |
Likes |
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### Approaches
There are a few main approaches for collecting environmental evidence that documents reality and supports locally held goals:
* Establishment of a baseline → change detection
* Environmental surveillance (Internet of Things, trend spotting)
* Exploring existing data (FOIA, data science, close reading)
* Watchdogging, hotspotting, bounty hunting
* Study Design with a disprovable hypothesis
In Public Lab's educational work, we use the following framework:
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