Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
@ericagies.bsky.social
Author of "Water Always Wins," #slowwater aficionado, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness, and respect.
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Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA
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TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
🌍 Join me at #PlanetAction — a festival of the future.
Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA
3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence.
🔬Turn insights into action
FREE TICKETS → luma.comideas-in-action
TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium
Nov 15–17 | Cambridge, MA
3 days of breakthrough ideas in biodiversity, energy, and planetary intelligence.
🔬Turn insights into action
FREE TICKETS → luma.comideas-in-action
TEDxBoston | MIT Kresge Hall | New England Aquarium
Wind damage
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Wind damage
Chairman Mao Mao questions our decorative choice of his Birmingham Peaky Blinders doppelgänger.
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Chairman Mao Mao questions our decorative choice of his Birmingham Peaky Blinders doppelgänger.
projects we need globally to rebalance the water cycle and help stabilize the climate. In his memory, I hope people will read about Sponge Planet and think about what they can do in their own places to move us toward that vision. RIP, Kongjian. You left a remarkable, spongy impact. I will miss you.
September 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
projects we need globally to rebalance the water cycle and help stabilize the climate. In his memory, I hope people will read about Sponge Planet and think about what they can do in their own places to move us toward that vision. RIP, Kongjian. You left a remarkable, spongy impact. I will miss you.
Tahsis, BC, beauty
September 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Tahsis, BC, beauty
Your moment of Zen: Sucwoa River north of Gold River, BC, on Van Isle
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Your moment of Zen: Sucwoa River north of Gold River, BC, on Van Isle
#50501 #sanfrancisco My father escaped the Nazis. We are NOT doing this again. Fascism isn’t us.
April 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#50501 #sanfrancisco My father escaped the Nazis. We are NOT doing this again. Fascism isn’t us.
California Wildlife Day was yesterday (EVERY day should be Wildlife Day!). Thanks, Elise Weiland & Lorin Letendre for inviting me to speak at the Carmel River Watershed Conservancy celebration. And thanks to Rachel Saunders of Big Sur Land Trust for showing me floodplain restoration in the works.
April 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
California Wildlife Day was yesterday (EVERY day should be Wildlife Day!). Thanks, Elise Weiland & Lorin Letendre for inviting me to speak at the Carmel River Watershed Conservancy celebration. And thanks to Rachel Saunders of Big Sur Land Trust for showing me floodplain restoration in the works.
#handsoff #santacruz Posters at the Santa Cruz, Calif., Hands Off! Protest in short of democracy.
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#handsoff #santacruz Posters at the Santa Cruz, Calif., Hands Off! Protest in short of democracy.
Very large enthusiastic crowd at San Francisco March for Science. Resistance is Fertile.
March 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Very large enthusiastic crowd at San Francisco March for Science. Resistance is Fertile.
Joy in the garden
March 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Joy in the garden
In all this dark, here's a nerdy little light. It seems I'm cited in the Chicago Manual of Style. I was a copyeditor for 7 years, and Chicago, along with AP, were the bibles of style guides. Now I feel like I've really made it! When you're ready for gripping reading on source citations....
February 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
In all this dark, here's a nerdy little light. It seems I'm cited in the Chicago Manual of Style. I was a copyeditor for 7 years, and Chicago, along with AP, were the bibles of style guides. Now I feel like I've really made it! When you're ready for gripping reading on source citations....
Brandt’s cormorants dating, mating, and egg sitting in La Jolla, Calif. Many thanks to Karen Straus for sharing them! 🌿
January 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Brandt’s cormorants dating, mating, and egg sitting in La Jolla, Calif. Many thanks to Karen Straus for sharing them! 🌿
Burrowing owl in San Diego
January 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Burrowing owl in San Diego
Mr. Fish is not having it. 🌿
January 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Mr. Fish is not having it. 🌿
Mr. Fish is not having it.
January 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Mr. Fish is not having it.