Newtown Creek, Long Island City, Queens NY (birthplace of your GSM)
Resources:
What's wrong with this river?!
Artist Olafur Eliasson drew attention to ideas about the natural environment and water pollution with this work, Green River (1998-200). Intrigued? Read an interview with the artist.
On the 17th of November ExxonMobil agreed - because of a lawsuit - to cleanup Newtown Creek! Now, 25 million dollars are being allocated to this cleanup, Riverkeeper is going to monitor it and the community, along with the Newtown Creek Alliance.
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an oral history project about the creek:
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the epa report about the spill:
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/superfund/npl/newtowncreek/newtowncreek_review.pdf
oh and also the final creek speak oral history report:
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Responsibilities for December 2nd Proposal
ReplyDeleteFeride- Current situation
Kebe- What happened in the past
Bavi- Our vision!
Edwin- Prospective interviewees and readings
This sounds great, a hot topic right now!
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