1. We Engage!
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully dba ACTS is a community based nonprofit organization that utilizes citizen science, community inclusion and initiatives that serve and impact the community for resiliency.
2. We Educate!
ACTS provides training and other resources to increase capacity, ensure residents are familiar with facts and data to form opinions to advocate on behalf of their community.
3. We Empower!
The work of ACTS serves to enhance critical thinking, encourage transformation and resiliency in communities/people.
Community Corner
Our lovely community members make community actions successful, achievable, and fun at the same time.
Air Quality Initiative
Big goals are achieved in small steps. Our environmental movement is organized in a way that allows everyone to participate.
Using DATA
for ACTION
The residents of Pleasantville identified air quality as one of the top five priorities for the community in January 2018. By November 2019, the community-led air monitoring network was being implemented. Today the network consists of a total of 8 low-cost monitors measuring both particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrous dioxide (NO2). Monthly reports are generated to document air quality measurements. This information is also available on the website.
The Pleasantville community sustained significant flooding in 2000 (Allison) and again in 2017 (Harvey)
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