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 Fabulous Four web pages (Foods, Air, Water, Soil)  of Coming Alongside are structured to help you make informed choices regarding environmental health under the assumption of limited resources.  We realize that no one has all the money, time, energy, or access to choose only the healthiest food, air, water, and soil every day.  As you navigate our pages, you should find priorities and best practices (Top Five’s) that allow you to use limited time, money, and energy to get the most out of the choices you make to protect yourself from toxins in the environment.  

Our Big Picture addresses the overall role that Environmental Health plays in Global Human Health.  

The ongoing degradation of environmental health in subtle, often invisible and pervasive ways drives Coming Alongside to present information in such a way that is both understandable and useful to all who visit these pages.  Our messages are simple but based solely on reputable information either generated experimentally (in our own facilities) or drawn from reputable sources authored by established professionals in the field of environmental health and engineering.