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Carbon Sponge

2018 - 2022, New York City
with Brooke Singer, Dr. S. Perl Egendorf, Dr. Peter Groffman, Dr. Maha Deeb & Katharhy Flores




Carbon Sponge is a collective research practice and interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, farmers, scientists, agroecologist, educators and public gardens. The gardens are designed around a science experiment to study soil dynamics and develop protocols for tracking biologic carbon sequestration –  the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide in living systems including plants, microbes and soils. 

The project began at the New York Hall of Science in 2018; where we selected a mixture of edible perennial and annual plants and designed a study to measure carbon intake in soil on a small scale. The project continues to develop through ongoing research exploring carbon mitigation in urban and rural spaces, trialing crops with dense root networks.

Project collaborators and supporters include: The Advanced Science Research Center at The CUNY Graduate Center, the NYC Urban Soils Institute, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College, the Jacob Riis Settlement House at NYCHA Ravenswood, the NYC Compost Project hosted by Big Reuse, The NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation, La Casita Verde and Patagonia.

Press & Links 
Carbonsponge.org

Carbon Sponge Guide
The City’s Buried Treasure Isn’t Under the Dirt. It Is the Dirt - NYTimes; July 25, 2018.
at Wave Hill in Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator, 2018.

Carbon Sponge at White Feather Farm