The Green Energy Park is built on and next to an old landfill, which produces methane gas, a very potent greenhouse gas that damages our environment. Instead of flaring or burning off these gases into the air, we redirect the methane gas from the landfill to our studios to use as fuel.

Most landfills produce PFAs or Forever Chemicals in the form of liquid and gas. The liquids can be monitored and controlled the gases are normally flared off into the air at 1000 degrees. But PFAS, being that it is not well known, and can cause a major health threat to artists and studio spaces. In January of 2025, a brand new PFAS air test came onto the market for the first time. The Park, being the only such facility in the world, we needed to confirm that our artists were not being subjected to highly cancer-causing PFAS particles in our studio. The fear was that our 2000-degree furnaces were just reducing the deadly chemicals to smaller pieces and thus harmful. We conducted two air samples with the help of our Eurofins Labs in Knoxville, and the results showed that at 2000 degrees, the harmful materials were being destroyed and thus safe.

For more information on the environmental benefits of the Park, please see this PDF.