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This is the first episode of Future 400, a four-part podcast series from the Dutch Consulate in New York and made and presented by me, Tracy Metz. We start by looking at New York before it was New York, hearing the voices of the people who already lived there: the Lenape.

It is climate change that is sucking the Colorado River dry, or the fact that too many people have too many straws in its water? Actually it’s both, we learned during our yearly Harvard GSD Loeb Fellowship study trip that went to Denver, Colorado this year. So yes this is a big story. I touched on some of the pertinent issues in this article for the Loeb Fellowship website (pdf and images below).

In deze souterrain aan de Marnixstraat in Amsterdam ligt een laag water van een paar centimeter diep. Tegen AT5 zegt de bewoner, terwijl hij wijst naar zijn rubberlaarzen: ‘Dit zijn mijn nieuwe huisslippers’. AT5 vroeg aan mij: waar komt die wateroverlast vandaan? En wat doen we eraan? Kijk hier: