The City of Houston’s Health Department, the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently unveiled the nation’s eighth Village Green Station during a ceremony in Houston, Texas. The project is a community-based activity to demonstrate the capabilities of new real-time monitoring technology for residents and citizen scientists to learn about local air quality. The Village Green Station is a solar-powered air monitoring station fitted into a park bench made from recycled materials which will be located outside the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science. This particular bench builds on the innovative technology from previous generation projects and will track weather, ozone, fine particles (PM 2.5), total volatile organic compounds (tVOC), black carbon and nitrogen dioxide. Many of these air pollutants are harmful to human health.