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IN PICTURES: Fresh Kills Park4 comments

Michelle Young wrote 2 weeks ago: On June 27th, Untapped New York took the Fresh Kills Tour run by the New York City Dept of Parks and … more →

Tags: Staten Island, Con Edison, Ecology, Emissions, garbage, green house gas, landfill, landscape architecture, Methane

FRESH KILLS PARK: Garbage-Greenery Conversion5 comments

Michelle Young wrote 3 weeks ago: Vision for Fresh Kills (Source: NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation) Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten I … more →

Tags: Staten Island, Con Edison, Ecology, Emissions, Field Operations, garbage, green house gas, High Line, James Corner

Landfills to Parks: The Freshkills Story3 comments

Ben wrote 1 month ago: Local New York public television station Thirteen has done a great video on the conversion of Fresh … more →

Tags: Renewal, green infrastructure, landfills

Video: Freshkills Park Project

danielpaulross wrote 1 month ago: My camera work: … more →

Tags: Thirteen/WNET, Freshkills Park, garbage, landfill, Refuse, sanitation, Staten Island, Trash

Trashku contest

Leila Darabi wrote 3 months ago: Freshkills park wants you To write haikus about them Prizes for winners … more →

Tags: artistic trash, Staten Island, Haiku, landfill, Poetry

Amazon's ABNA kicks off on Monday!1 comment

shannonyarbrough wrote 5 months ago: LLBR has moved – to read this great article, go to our new site – Amazon’s ABNA kicks off on M … more →

Tags: ABNA, abna winner, Amazon ABNA, amazon breakthrough, Amazon.com, breakthough novel award, createspace, Publishing

tattfoo4 comments

Leila Darabi wrote 7 months ago: Tis the season for trash art, it seems.  I feel like I’ve been getting daily tips on creative … more →

Tags: artistic trash, installation, Photography, Staten Island

Trash Talk: 6 Dirty Secrets I Wish I Never Knew1 comment

copybrite wrote 7 months ago: 1. Recycling really means “let them deal with it.” We “recycle” electronics … more →

Tags: Junk, landfills, Plastic

a brief primer on plumes3 comments

Marijke wrote 9 months ago: The United States may have as many as 100,00 landfills, large and small. A significant proportion of … more →

Tags: climate change, dump, garbage, incineration, landfill, Netherlands, US, Contamination, environmental movement

landscape inspirations2 comments

Marijke wrote 9 months ago: Fresh Kills is undoubtedly the best (because improbably and absurdly) named landfill in the country. … more →

Tags: bibliography, dump, garbage, landfill, US, loehfelm, nadelson, New York, Noir

West Shore residents welcome proposed wind turbines

goingcoastal wrote 10 months ago: Some West Shore residents may soon wake up to find themselves living in a kind of futuristic Holland … more →

Tags: Get Wet, Staten Island, nadfill, Staten Island, west shore, wind turbines

Lit. and Music Review September 20081 comment

prseitz wrote 10 months ago: Lit and Music Review September 2008 … more →

Tags: Bill Loehfelm, Brooklyn, eBooks, finch, Hal lanse, joseph mastropiero, patois, sarah swinwood

Love Letters and Cabbage Leaves1 comment

Marijke wrote 11 months ago: Fresh Kills landfill was used in 2001 as the site where debris from the World Trade Center was separ … more →

Tags: dump, garbage, landfill, park, US, Arthur Kill, Contamination, monument, New York

Barn Swallows and the Wisdom of Star Trek

naturecalendar wrote 1 year ago:     by Erik Baard   If you want to score with New Jersey babes, wear red. At least if you’re a barn … more →

Tags: Parks, Staten Island, spring, summer, Birds, vertebrates, wild eyed, park, New York City

Wild Eyed: Egret Takes Flight over English Kills1 comment

naturecalendar wrote 1 year ago: by Erik Baard A skeptic might say that a naturalist hoping for the Great Egret to visit the Newtown … more →

Tags: Fish, estuary, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Amphibians, Birds, Crustaceans, Invertebrates

Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm

prseitz wrote 1 year ago: Review by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love The problem with a lot of first novels is tha … more →

Tags: Bill Loehfelm, Novel, Mystery

And the winner is...2 comments

amart71 wrote 1 year ago: Well, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition finally has a winner. And if you’ve been … more →

Tags: amazon breakthrough novel award, writing, Books, Amazon.com, ABNA, Dennis Lehane, Bill Loehfelm, Publisher's Weekly

ABNA Winner Announced Yesterday2 comments

shannonyarbrough wrote 1 year ago: Congratulations to Jeff Loehfelm, winner of the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award.  His book, Fres … more →

Tags: Amazon.com, ABNA, Amazon, amazon.com winner, Breakthrough Novel Award, amazon breakthrough winner, penguin ABNA winner

Funding falls far short for roads in Fresh Kills Park

goingcoastal wrote 1 year ago: Without more money, roads proposed for the planned Fresh Kills Park might end up going nowhere. Only … more →

Tags: Go Coastal, Staten Island, park, Waterfront development, State Island


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