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Jigen Daisuke, Jr Mar 16

Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life.

millennial fulcrum Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 heavenly.

u0421793 Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 birds AND bees?

🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 Have these actually been installed and are there real images? The Parkipelago project was introduced in 2018, but the islands in the scheme looked much different to this one, so I'd love to know what the current state of the project is and how it is implemented. The Danes on Instagram are saying this isn't a thing that exists, at least not yet. The Parkipelago and other projects that are still in the works can be found on the MAST website: https://mast.dk/projects

Projects — MAST

Explore MAST’s projects that work with water to reconnect cities to the sea. View floating structures, coastal designs, and innovative waterfront architecture.

@Mimesatwork @Rainmaker1973 Yes: https://byoghavn.dk/en-flydende-blomsterhave-saetter-spot-paa-biodiversitet-i-koebenhavns-havn/

En flydende blomsterhave sætter spot på biodiversitet i Københavns Havn - By & Havn

Lokale skoleelever var tirsdag med til at søsætte en have fuld af hjemmehørende arter i Københavns Havn. WWF Verdensnaturfonden og...

By & Havn

🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mar 16

@joeroe @Rainmaker1973 Thank you! Especially with the actual photos and not the AI fabulations

Marcus Müller Mar 16

@Mimesatwork @joeroe yep, especially since the actual raft has a fence, probably to keep exactly birds depicted in Rainmaker1973 's image out. Because everyone who's ever seen what a flock of geese do to little greens close to water knows it would be a rather flat, well-grazen and highly… fertilized island if not protected. Seriously, though, Rainmaker1973 seems to be a content farming bot, so, just block that thing and move on.

oscarfalcon Mar 16

Chinampas! pero ahora en Dinamarca... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa

Chinampa - Wikipedia

@Rainmaker1973 cool, but probably a bit of a romantic picture. The ducks in our neighborhood would reduce that floating island to a mud pile :)

Reading Recluse Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 This sounds really cute, but I can't find any source for it anywhere, just the same graphic on hundreds of social media pages for the last two weeks.

It seems like its earliest appearance is on this FB page: https://www.facebook.com/FactFuel9/posts/in-denmark-environmental-planners-are-transforming-quiet-sections-of-city-harbor/1434695681658541/

This looks to be a FB page that constantly generates AI images with fake news.

This image is also very strange, most likely AI generated. Just one goose, they are usually in groups. Just one duck, they are usually in groups too. What are those two brown birds sitting so closely to the goose, I can't identify them at all. How is that picture taken, someone floating in a boat next to it, somehow not scaring all of these birds away? Why is the swan that is farther away bigger than the swan that is nearer? Why is that tall building in the distance not straight? Etc.

I'm a little tired of so often seeing positive news in my trending tab in Masto and then it turns out to be not real. This is a call for everyone to verify information before spreading it.

Fact Fuel

In Denmark, environmental planners are transforming quiet sections of city harbors into floating ecosystems. Instead of leaving industrial waterfronts as bare concrete and steel, engineers have...

@reading_recluse @Rainmaker1973 I don't think that's a real photo either, but what the post describes does exist: https://byoghavn.dk/en-flydende-blomsterhave-saetter-spot-paa-biodiversitet-i-koebenhavns-havn/

En flydende blomsterhave sætter spot på biodiversitet i Københavns Havn - By & Havn

Lokale skoleelever var tirsdag med til at søsætte en have fuld af hjemmehørende arter i Københavns Havn. WWF Verdensnaturfonden og...

By & Havn

Reading Recluse Mar 16

@joeroe @Rainmaker1973 Thanks, I'm happy to see they exist (although they look completely different haha)!

It's sad that the real news gets buried under a misleading (AI picture) infographic version of it.

Moonlight_Crazy Mar 16

What happens in a storm?

Thomas Schmall Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 We have similar floaty duck islands in the canals in Amsterdam. Though after some years they don't look quite as picturesque as this.

blobfoxlaughsweat

earthling Mar 16

We're a wildflower island floating in space.

#astrophotography
#Earth

@Rainmaker1973
It's a small floating platform. It's also a statement about what we think cities owe the rest of life on earth.

Black Chic with the Red Truck Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 Chicago has something similar to this.

https://www.healthylakes.org/latest-news/the-wild-mile-floating-wetlands-restore-diverse-wildlife-to-the-chicago-river

The Wild Mile: Floating Wetlands Restore Diverse Wildlife to the Chicago River — Healthy Lakes

Deep in the heart of urban Chicago, a network of floating wetlands is restoring native wildlife habitats, increasing biodiversity, and encouraging recreation along the north branch of the Chicago River. Known as The Wild Mile, the interconnected islands were installed by grassroots environmental res

Healthy Lakes

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973
The picture is very obviously A.I. bull crap.
If the story is even partially true then why not use an actual real image?!
#lazy #AISlop

Kid Mania Mar 16

@spacemagick @Rainmaker1973
🙈 🙉 🙊
https://www.greenmemag.com/environment/in-denmark-floating-islands-full-of-flowers-are-turning-harbors-into-refuges-for-bees-and-birds/

In Denmark, floating islands full of flowers are turning harbors into refuges for bees and birds - greenMe

In Denmark, floating islands emerge in urban harbors: small ecosystems with wildflowers helping bees, birds and biodiversity.

greenMe

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ 1d ago

@clintruin @Rainmaker1973

Ah, right, so the reason the pictures are all A.I. is because they haven't actually done it yet!
(Although this one is just barely plausible bu far too low res to be sure. Ha!)
#architecture #wildlife #Copenhagen

peachfront Mar 16

looks to me like Canada Goose has claimed your island territories for the nation of Canada Goose

i see by that photo that even the swans are hanging back with some trepidation in the face of the angry foe!

🤣

Shantara Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 I don’t want to be overly cynical, but it smells like greenwashing to me. It’s a drop in a bucket compared to the damage to the nature done by the projects like Lynetteholmen and Fælledby.

A Cidade Branca Mar 16

Os Astecas costumavam fazer isso no Lago que existia em redor da capital.

@Rainmaker1973 Bullshit #utopianism , that would be a muddy tangle of dying flowers in a couple of days.

Robin Barton Mar 16

@Rainmaker1973 What a lovely idea

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈Mar 16

Brilliant 👏👏👏