Comments on: Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal Gets Superfund Status

By: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Announces Green Roof Initiative | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:31:14 +0000

[...] their fair share of brownfields, and currently there’s two superfund sites in Brooklyn, the Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek. One of the problems the city must get around is its antiquated water system, [...]

By: Gowanus Canal Mud To Be Turned Into Glass Cubes? | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:44:13 +0000

[...] vitrification process is as environmentally friendly as possible. Due to the toxic content of the canal mud, a filter is even used to catch emissions that would be created from heating the [...]

By: Gowanus Canal in New York City Gets an Oxygen Breathing Pipe System | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:31:46 +0000

[...] long used as an industrial dumping ground for the factories that line its sides. Now the canal is a Superfund site — a site designated by the EPA as being harmful to the people and environment it borders [...]

By: Green-Roofed Eco City Rises on the Grand Canal in China | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:25:16 +0000

[...] the design of the water-centered development, which would create an artificial channel off the main canal. This new channel is the main axis around which the development sits and leads directly into the [...]

By: Kristi Bernick

Kristi Bernick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:32 +0000

I hope they start cleaning soon! Gowanus is a wonderful area and there are such great advantages to a canal…if only we could use it. Assuming the canal gets clean I know there are plenty of proposals for renovation in the area that allows landscape to be a driving force. Industrial architecture neighborhood meets green architecture renovation…can you imagine the wonderland?!