[HN Gopher] How the world's largest garbage dump evolved into a ... ___________________________________________________________________ How the world's largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis Author : mcone Score : 16 points Date : 2020-08-21 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | wrkronmiller wrote: | Interesting. How are they managing the continued break-down of | the garbage that's still buried a few (dozen?) feet below? | | The article doesn't convince me that this dump is totally | reformed, just that life has developed on top. This also isn't a | "sustainable" solution as we will continue to need dumps for the | foreseeable future... | gumby wrote: | This approach was taken with the Mountain View dump next to | Google (and Palo Alto's next door). Shoreline amphitheater And | the nearly Park/lake (next to where Google is now) was built on | it; I went to the first few shows when it opened and remember | smoky emissions from the seating area -- not from the audience I | mean. | | The flat area where the office buildings are was a bean field. | When shoreline opened. I used to walk from my office, cutting | through years farm, to go to shoreline. Then SGI and J&J built | buildings there (which later became the Google campus) and the | park and amphitheater just seem to most people to be part of the | landscape. Which is great! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-21 23:00 UTC)