Superfun.. well, cool, Superfund Site
Posted by at Jul 14th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Health , Activism Add this to your coolest-sites-you’ve-never seen list. Superfund 365 , a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, is a website that publishes an informative page each day for a year (the project began in September 2007) about one of the nation’s Superfund sites (one famous Superfund site is New York’s Love Canal ). The federal superfund designation came from a 1980 law titled the Comprehensive environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The idea behind Superfund designations (assigned to the most hazardous pollution sites) was that they would force polluters to pay and clean up after these spills and waste sites. Some don’t think that plan worked so well–especially when the initial funding set aside was exhausted in 2003. In other words, there’s still a lot of work to be done to clean up these dangerously contaminated places. Superfund 365 provides readers with specific information about the sites. They describe their project this way: “Superfund365, A Site-A-Day , is an online data visualization application with an accompanying RSS-feed and email alert system. Each day for a year, starting on September 1, 2007 , Superfund365 will visit one toxic site currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” What is data visualization? Well, there are illustrations of each site’s demographics, timelines, photos of the site, and a clickable graphic of the remaining contaminants. Anyone can contribute photos of sites, and you can add it to your RSS feed. This is a great way to look at the massive amounts of information about each individual site–of which there are way too many. Maybe a Superfund (email) a day will keep the polluters away. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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