Groundwork Bridgeport's network of air monitors across the city of Bridgeport collect data on the air quality to help inform the organization's tree planting programs. Residents of Bridgeport help the cause by signing up to receive and set up an air monitor. This season, Groundwork Bridgeport will use collected data to plant 20 trees to improve conditions. Learn how you could be an air monitor here: (fb)

"What I witness here is an incredible sense of community and neighbors helping neighbors." This Next Avenue piece shares how residents in Maine, the country's oldest state, are stepping up to help one another as we all age. Read more here: (fb)