Superfund365
A Site-A-Day
Supported by Jerome Foundation
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 Superfund365 visited one toxic site currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
We began the journey in the New York City area and worked our way across the country, ending the year in Hawaii. The archive consisted of 365 visualizations of some of the worst toxic sites in the U.S., roughly a quarter of the total number on the on the Superfund’s National Priorities List (NPL).
Along the way, we conducted video interviews with people involved with or impacted by the Superfund program. Content changed everyday, so we encouraged visitors to use our subscribe tools that facilitated content delivery via email and RSS.
TAXONOMY
Activist | Art/Science | Climate Change | Data | Environment | Participatory | RSS | Visualization
REQUIREMENTS
Flash Plugin.
MEDIA & ACHIEVEMENTS
Sites for Change » American Scientist
superfund365.org – Internet, Sustainability – Architect Magazine
Brooke Singer – CT4CT- Creative Tools for Critical Times
Brooke Singer | Case Studies in Web Art and Design
Save Stratford – Superfund365 – Email Recap
Superfund365- Where Toxic Waste Meets Art – TreeHugger
Superfund 365 | coolhunting.com
Superfund365 | visualizing.org
Superfund365 Launched! at Structural Patterns
Superfund365 Photography Series | eyebeam.org
Superfund365 | Confluence Culture
See If Your Next-Door Neighbor Is a Toxic Dump | takepart.com
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Superfund365 was conceived, designed and produced by Brooke Singer.
The programming and Flash guru behind the project is John Kuiphoff.
Kurt Olmstead provided business analysis and additional programming.
Emily Gallagher assisting with project research and EPA relations.
Camera and sound work by Andrew Rueland.
