Freshkills Park Blog
Grudge match: landfill capping technologies
A story for the environmental engineer in all of us: are landfills better capped with clay, or soil and plants? It’s actually a hot debate.
...MOREThe big time
Freshkills Park and landscape architect James Corner, principal of Field Operations, have been featured in a huge story in the current issue of New York Magazine. We’re happy to get this kind of exposure, though the story does seem to incorrectly suggest that when you visit the site you see a heap of trash.
...MOREWhen Freshkills visited Fresh Kills
On a recent sunny Friday, we took Williamsburg-based post-punk band Freshkills out on a tour of their namesake site. Writer Jens Carstensen is friend of the band and came out on the tour with us. His account of our bleary-eyed morning is a fun read.
...MOREFresh Kills in graphic detail
Popular Science has posted a thoughtful and informative graphic exposition of the Fresh Kills site. There’s a lot of information to communicate when we’re talking about Freshkills Park, so we appreciate the effort to make it more comprehensible through the comic format.
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