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The Public Laboratory

Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms.

Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go.

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This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues.

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Research Notes

mlamadrid
2 days 22 hours ago
If the official world of maps has mutated into an insane apparatus of surveillance and control, why...
4 days 1 hour ago
Sand is currently being pumped from a borrow area on the north side of Folly Beach to the shoreface...
Lynnrw
5 days 6 hours ago
We're a neighborhood group in East Providence, RI with houses adjacent to a large construction...
1 week 2 days ago
Map and Kite Education at MLK Charter School Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans Spring 2013 As...
cfastie
1 week 2 days ago
Image above: My backyard in pure infrared light. A Wratten 87 filter allows only wavelengths longer...
1 week 4 days ago
Filled up the balloon for the fourth time and did a neighbors property. This was shot with a canon...

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kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole

mathew.lippincott posted a photo:

kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole

mathew.lippincott posted a photo:

kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole

mathew.lippincott posted a photo:

kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole

mathew.lippincott posted a photo:

kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole

mathew.lippincott posted a photo:

kailash ecovillage

with ole ersson and a large pole