Loren KingThis is fantastic! Small steps. #UrbanSwimming #SwimmableCities #UrbanWaterFutures
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1107/1542623-oysters-dublin-bay/
Provinces failing their their cities on #UrbanWater is something of pastime in #CanadianPolitics. Even so, #DougFord and his minions stand out in their reflexive distrust of expertise and utter lack of interest in actually governing for the public good. Mike Harris and his cronies were close, I suppose. These are simply not serious people. #UrbanWaterFutures #SwimDrinkFish #OurGreatLakes
A presentation on #UrbanWater and #MarathonSwimming that some very patient urbanists and philosophers endured on Friday, at a wonderful 10th anniversary meeting of the Philosophy of the City Research Group at Brooklyn College. This might be the weirdest take on a classic marathon swim: urban swimming as flâneury!
#WildSwimming #UrbanSwimming #UrbanWaterFutures #SustainableUrbanFutures #WaterIsLife
Cities can reclaim their harbours and waterfronts: #Copenhagen, #Dublin ... why not #Toronto? #Hamilton? #HamOnt #UrbanSwimming #UrbanWaterFutures #RightToTheCity #SwimDrinkFish #OurGreatLakes
https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/how-copenhagen-cleaned-up/
Loren KingBy 2050 projections have 80% of the roughly 10 billion people on earth living in urban regions. Global average temperatures are likely to be 2-3 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and extreme conditions may render swathes of the planet effectively uninhabitable. #UrbanWater scarcity will be rampant. Read Jay Famiglietti from 2019 on the troubling geography of global water scarcity:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/spring-2019/a-map-of-the-future-of-water
