S2E17 - What's Maybe the Best Way to Make Four Dollars out of One?

with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer

💧 Michael holds a Ph. D. in Geography and builds upon a unique (and multidisciplinary!) skill set, making him a Global Water expert.

What we covered:

🍏 How we used to close and now re-open the rivers in our cities for roughly the same set of legitimate reasons

🍏  How (spoiler!) every dollar invested in river restoration actually provides a four-dollar return on investment

🍏 The perks and pitfalls of semi-natural ecosystems in the heart of cities

🍏 How 60s 'urbanization miracles' became modern nightmares

🍏 The three new and updated reasons why people want to go to cities (and why that matter for businesses)

🍏 The blue-green movement that changes the way we do economy

🍏 How better technical understanding and digitization enables to engineer with nature

🍏 How Sponge Cities are a new level of urbanization and environmental engineering, although still being a vivid debate in society

🍏 How involvement of all stakeholders is crucial to building a blue-green infrastructure

🍏 How cognitive connectivity needs to be restored along with water rehabilitation (and how that connects to... Heidegger!)

🍏 How water needs to be presented in a fun and lively way instead of focusing on the negative reconnection

🍏 Why and how a 'Water Incubator' could turn the tables 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-stanley-gallisdorfer-b7871611/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here:  https://dww.show/what-is-the-best-way-to-make-four-dollars-out-of-one/ 

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