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Tag: Water Talks

‘Water Talks’ in podcast Women Mind the Water

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Video, Water, Water Talks.

From her location in the US, Pam Ferris-Olsen – storyteller, artist and advocate – travels the world digitally to talk with women about their connection with water for her project Women Mind the Water. I am delighted to join her to talk about my podcast Water Talks in this impressive line-up, including performance artist Sarah Cameron Sunde who also is a speaker in episode 3: Too Little. Here’s the video of our conversation and the podcast: https://womenmindthewater.com/artivist-series/artivist-series-tracy-metz

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Water Talks podcast: Big Five-interview Rohit Aggarwala

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Stad, Water, Water Talks.

In this 10th and last episode of Water Talks, I meet Rohit Aggarwala, the Chief Climate Officer of New York City and the commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection. He is deeply invested in using storm protection measures to not just build walls, but to make the city a better place for the people who live there, to give the city what he calls ‘a livable waterfront’. I spoke with him about the city’s sewers, about making the city more resilient with measures ranging from seawalls to rain gardens, and about the water around New York, which has gotten so clean that...

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Water Talks podcast: Too Close for Comfort

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Landschap, Podcast, Stad, Stedenbouw, Water, Water Talks.

Water Talks is my new podcast about water: too much, too little, too dirty and … too unequal. During the UN Water conference, the first one in 47 years, and the New York Water Week, I spoke to a diverse group of people in New York and the Netherlands – a diverse group of people in New York and the Netherlands – artists, activists, academics, engineers, policy makers – about how we can and should move forward in order to save ourselves and our planet from the water crisis. In this first episode, called Too Close for Comfort, I speak with Henk Ovink, the...

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