Abby Interviewed by the Sanctuary for Independent Media!

Abby was interviewed by Peter Sergay of The Sanctuary for Independent Media on WOOC 105.3 about the Our Soil project. They discussed the potential of the Community Soil Study Toolkit to allow people to measure the concentration of heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and copper right in their backyards and neighborhoods without the need for additional laboratory equipment. One of the goals of the project is to use the Toolkit with neighbors in North Troy through a series of workshops in order to identify locations and concentrations of these heavy metals. Abby also discussed another goal of acting on this knowledge to address the issue of soil contamination, both practically by acting directly through simple landscaping practices in our small group as well as politically by considering soil lead as a broad public issue, one that affects virtually all urban areas throughout the U.S. and in many places across the world, that necessitates collective action. You can listen to the radio interview here.