Freshkills Park – Staten Island, NYC

A 2,200 acre landfill sits on New York City’s  forgotten boro of Staten Island.  This now defunct landfill is about has wrecked of a land as you could imagine, nobody would live on it or develop on it.  It is where all of the trash in NYC accumulated for 60 years.  Staten Islanders have books of jokes about the health risks of the dumb, the cancerous gases pouring out of the land, the mutant fish living in the creeks driven into the landfill.  It precisely has the perfect reputation, because what if an ecosystem can transform that land?  People could fully understand the power of ecosystems.

These are the plans for the landfill, a 30 year plan, which will open a massive urban park in parts and provide habitats for a large amount of Northeastern biodiversity.  This would reinvent imaginations.

Freshkills, like all landfills is drowning in methane gases, a terrible greenhouse gas, which is also buried under the Permafrost and Pleistocene Park.  Engineers for the City’s parks and sanitations departments were able to engineer methane collectors, which will then be converted from the greenhouse gas into usable energy which could heat 30,000 homes.  Now that is a smart use of a bad situation.  The park also looks to boast a solar farm, which will power 2,000 homes and wind turbines.  The engineering of these methane collectors is merely just how we apply what we have learned from nature’s engineering intelligence.

But what about the other organic and inorganic materials?

There simply is just way too much going on on this land for engineers to figure out how to harness all of it productively.  But we do not need human engineers to figure all of it out, nature has already figured it out a long long time ago.  Certain species have been genetically engineered to recycle physical and gaseous waste on this planet.  We just need to allow them to do their job and monitor their efforts.  It is quite possible that new species’ have to be reintroduced to the region to best facilitate a healthy park, which can handle the toxins.  Nature wrote, edited, and published the book on engineering like 4 billion years ago.  Tell me again how does Earth does not possess intelligence… everything has a unique intelligence and which is such a vital part to everything… this is how everything works in the natural world and the social world!

I think that is pretty rad!

The park is way to small to really mean anything on a global scale…

The above statement is completely false.  The park will serve primarily as an educational facility, where people can learn how and why they should live an eco-responsible life.  The park will also educate people on the powers of ecosystems, which will allow for a better understanding of the bigger eco projects on Earth.  Such projects as: The permafrost, which is nothing more then a massive landfill we created 11,000 years ago, that stretches across the entire Northern hemisphere of our planet.  If we can prove to NYC’ers that ecosystems can transform and reclaim land, this could educate literally every type of perspective!  Discovering  scientific theories is one specific thing, the ability to use those theories requires the full effort of all the other people in our social system.

Hooray science, education and our terrific educationally supported social system!!!!