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- Family, friends, and neighbors: Consider sharing an EcoQube between homes a month at a time.
- Church groups: Add lending to your parishioner and charitable outreach.
- Teachers: Consider a home science module that can range from temperature and pressure to air quality, to geology, to radiation, to DNA (the code of life).
- All of us: Engage civic leaders to set up lending programs.
- Municipal librarians: Engage your board. Many of you lend more than just books.
Part of the problem of radon is one of simple awareness. If you own an EcoQube or arrange to borrow one, you can share your home’s data with others by using its Wi-Fi capability. If your home has an issue, it is quite likely that your neighbors and cross-town friends in similar homes may have an issue as well.
When it comes to keeping our homes safe and doing all we can to ensure our children live long healthy lives, achieving equity in essential knowledge may not take much more than finding new and creative ways to cooperate.
References:
1. U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2020 submission data (1999-2018): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institutehttps://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz, released in June 2021.
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Figure 1. Rate of New Lung and Bronchus Cancers by Age (all ethnicities) [Ref. 1]
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