Author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." Reporter for SciAm, NatGeo, etc. I'm no longer here. I'm there: @ericagies.bsky.social
"SLOW WATER" is what I'm calling the way we can adapt to avoid the increased flood risk of 48 percent of global land area by 2100, and 52% of the population, per a new study from @nature https://t.co/HOsBKS4u2Q
Just in time for the holidays, a big discount on my audio book: 50% OFF Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge https://t.co/gx9CbTjUXA
🌍 Join me at TEDxBoston #PlanetAction — a festival of the future.
Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA
3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence.
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TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium
If you prefer hearing books to reading them, my audiobook is 50% OFF through May 11, Sunday -- Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge: https://t.co/Famx41UQnk
Water is essential, but access to clean water remains a global challenge. This #WorldWaterDay, discover how engineering is shaping the future of water by listening to our podcast episode with @RomaTheEngineer, @egies and @YeWanDae. 💧
🎧 https://t.co/fPNq2hfPCv @UN_Water
Humans have degraded 75 percent of Earth's land, destabilizing the #water cycle, amplifying effects of excess CO2. The water cycle is a key climate stabilizer but overlooked by policymakers. Restoring wetlands, floodplains, forests, recreating a Sponge Planet, will help.
Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, makes cities porous to soften floods & droughts. His story & the #slowwater movement are in my book "Water Always Wins." Now we & Warren Wood have a Comment in NatureWater on how to help stabilize the climate: a Sponge Planet. https://t.co/VHcos1NPkE
Last week in Montrey, CA, we spotted sea otters in the wild!
At @MontereyAq, we were entranced by the giant kelp forest tank and spotted Whale Fall in the gift shop.
So glad @pfairley & @egies invited us to visit for a week of fun, adventure, and reconnecting.
For the holidays: 70% OFF the Audiobook: Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
An uplifting gift for people concerned with water and solutions https://t.co/KWgBYryFlC
BREAKING: Tsunami activity forecast to hit San Francisco at 12:10.
If you are in a tsunami warning area, a tsunami with damaging waves and powerful currents is possible.
https://t.co/Dg76JvTfZp
@asanderford@reecereports@NEMAtweets@gaarder@DavidCStokes@GRHAmo@tonymess "In his free time, Pomerantz hunts & maps ghost streams... His eyes see what others miss— like this puddle, or certain water-loving plants that are clues to lost creeks. He gestures toward the trees that line the park’s edge on Fulton Street. 'Willows are like a flag,' he says."
Read four leading experts' convo on how nature-based solutions can bridge the gap between human needs & ecological health & restore humanity’s place amongst the natural world: https://t.co/lwcLz69Fr2
@FeliciaMarcus@WaterintheWest@egies @DrSuzanneSimard @lauraetam@ResourcesLF
Water has memory. And we've taken so much of its space. The global #slowwater movement is making people safer by returning floodplains (which exist to absorb floods), wetlands, meadows and forests to a more natural water cycle. Stories in my book https://t.co/2WDWWTD73r
@RebeccaSolnit Right, because no single-focused tech "innovation" ever caused unintended negative consequences when inserted into a complex natural system that literally supports our ability to live.
Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.
Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names. WE ARE NOT GOING BACK. #HarrisWalz#WeAreNotGoingBack