Erica Gies – The Slow Water Movement: How to Thrive in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Bioneers | Published: April 6, 2024 Ecological DesignRestoring Ecosystems Video
This widely-traveled independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer drew from her masterful book, Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, to share both ancient and cutting-edge approaches to and philosophies of water management being implemented in a number of locales around the world that offer far more effective strategies to ensure a healthy, productive human-water relationship than the massive, failed attempts to impose our will on an element we cannot defeat we have long pursued.
This talk was delivered at the 2024 Bioneers Conference.
Erica Gies is an independent journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, published in the U.S., U.K., and China. She covers water, climate change, plants and wildlife for Scientific American, The New York Times, bioGraphic, Nature, and other publications. The honors she has received include the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award, Friends of the River’s California River Award, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award, and the Harvey Southam Lectureship at the University of Victoria.
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