2024 Metcalf Institute Leeson Lecture: Listening to water

Leeson Lecture: Listening to water: How we can thrive in a time of drought and deluge
With Erica Gies
Climate change is bringing more frequent and severe floods and droughts. Such disasters spur calls for more infrastructure, but the ways we try to control water make these disasters worse. Because sooner or later, water always wins.
But there’s hope, and it starts with a revolutionary question: What does water want? By recognizing water’s agency and its relationships with soil, rock, microbes, plants, animals, and humans, innovators in the Slow Water movement are transforming our relationship with water, showing the way toward a better future. For the 2024 Leeson Lecture, join Metcalf Institute and award-winning science journalist Erica Gies for a new perspective on one of the most fascinating and pressing issues of our time.