About Us

Coming Alongside is a non-profit environmental services organization committed to bringing invisible biochemical worlds alongside the average citizen.  We seek to make transparent the biological and chemical hazards in our everyday environments, so that individuals, regardless of  race, ethnic origin, or socioeconomic status,  can be empowered to reduce exposure to and impacts of these everyday environments.

We embrace our mission via targeted action:

1. •Analyze environmental exposure information and translate it into language accessible to the average citizen.
   

2. •Disseminate information in a way that enables the individual to act to improve health and well being.
   

3. •Pull together environmental exposure data, both existing and new, to empower the individual to improve overall health.
   

4. •Apply appropriate technologies to fill in the gaps in collections of environmental data, as necessary to make environmental contamination real, personal, and actionable to individuals.
   

5. •Educate the public on critical contemporary topics of environmental exposure and health risk in actionable language.
   

The information provided on these web pages is organized by perspective so that it can be accessed according to the immediate needs of a wide range of users.  The Big Picture looks at the environmental health situation from a national and an international view, useful for those seeking to place their work into the broader context (and importance) of environmental Health. 

Perspectives on How We Live, Where We Live, and Where We Work are intended for the average citizen to gain a quick birds-eye-view of health threats in his/her individual experience.  Who Lives Nearby and When Things Change address more specific health threats relevant to citizens living near industrial plants and other localized (point sources of) contamination. 

How to Improve is intended for engineers & scientists to understand current technologies for sensing, monitoring, and mitigation as well as opportunities for future technology development targeted toward supporting improvements in environmental health.