# nature walk (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nature walk. Page: Feed: --- ## [Robin’s Last Song: Soundscape Ecology & Structures of Feeling](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/08/16/robins-last-song-soundscape-ecology-structures-of-feeling/) _2026-08-16 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ May 2071 I rock on the cedar swing on my veranda and hear the wind rustling through the gaunt forest. An abandoned nest, the forest sighs in low ponderous notes. It sighs of a gentler time. A time when birds filled it with song. A time when large and small creatures—unconcerned with the distant thrum \[…\] ## [Gaia’s Revolution: Life After Capitalism—Will We Survive?](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/08/09/gaias-revolution-life-after-capitalism-will-we-survive/) _2026-08-09 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ Gaia’s Revolution is Book 1 of The Icaria Trilogy, an environmental thriller released March 10, 2026 by Dragon Moon Press. This book wrote itself quickly and furiously over a few months. I wrote it in the back yard of a good friend one summer under a kind sun as I contemplated what life after capitalism \[…\] ## [How My Birdwatching Helps Me Stay Smart](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/08/02/how-my-birdwatching-helps-me-stay-smart/) _2026-08-02 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ . During my walks, I find interesting characters and study their ecology, how each lives and relates to others. Poking at the micro and gaping at the macro. The towering trees. The fungi. The lichen. The mosses and ferns. The flowers. I normally bring my camera and sometimes my macro-lens to take fascinating close-ups: lichen \[…\] ## [Biosemiosis: Acknowledging Intelligence in Nature](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/07/26/biosemiosis-acknowledging-intelligence-in-nature/) _2026-07-26 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ In my latest eco-fiction novel (Re)Genesis (upcoming), four teenagers in ‘small town’ Ontario discover and unravel a conspiracy by a chemical factory that uses shapeshifting substances to create weapons, causing a shift in the genetics of humanity itself. The discovery eventually leads them to communist Poland where it all started. (Re)Genesis follows the premise of \[…\] ## [The Brave New Worlds of Green Science Fiction & ‘A Diary in the Age of Water’](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/07/19/the-brave-new-worlds-of-green-science-fiction-a-diary-in-the-age-of-water/) _2026-07-19 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ I recently encountered Victoria Crozier’s intriguing PhD thesis and ecocritical discourse out of Liverpool John Moores University entitled “The Brave New Worlds of Green Science Fiction” and found my eco-fiction novel A Diary in the Age of Water mentioned alongside other notable eco-fiction works that I’d so enjoyed reading such as Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body \[…\] ## [Celebrating Old-Growth Eastern Hemlocks–A Tree Study](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/07/12/celebrating-old-growth-eastern-hemlocks/) _2026-07-12 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ . My relationship with the eastern hemlock tree started when I was a little girl and endures to this day; I remember scrambling after my older brother and sister in the woods behind our house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. We’d find a plethora of tiny cones on the spongy forest floor and my \[…\] ## [A Fallen Tree: When Death Brings Life](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/07/05/a-fallen-tree-when-death-brings-life/) _2026-07-05 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ It is early spring and I’m walking through one of my favourite woodlands in Ontario’s Carolinian forests. The river that had swollen with snow melt just a week before, now flows with more restraint. I can see the cobbles and clay of scoured banks under the water. Further on, part of the path along the \[…\] ## [The Lupins of Elgin Park](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/06/28/the-lupins-of-elgin-heritage-park/) _2026-06-28 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ When I first moved back to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, I started looking for places I could walk in Nature: forests, marshes, and meadows. Havens for birds and other wildlife that I might be fortunate enough to observe and study. A particular gem turned out to be a small unassuming, easily missed park \[…\] ## [Why We Must Preserve the Boreal Old-Growth Forests in Canada and Elsewhere](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/06/21/why-we-must-preserve-the-boreal-old-growth-forests-in-canada-and-elsewhere/) _2026-06-21 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ Named after Boreas, the Greek god of the Northwind, the boreal forest is also called taiga (a Russian word from Yakut origin that means “untraversable forest”). Boreal forests are crucial for mitigating global climate change by capturing and storing large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, previously unmanaged primary boreal forests are being rapidly transformed to \[…\] ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZmJ53OpLwSu0) _2026-06-21 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [The Insidious Threat of Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Like Climate Change](https://themeaningofwater.com/2026/06/14/the-insidious-threat-of-artificial-intelligence-how-ai-is-like-climate-change/) _2026-06-14 · thealiennextdoor · The Meaning of Water_ . In 1962, Rachel Carson published her book Silent Spring, which warned of our declining bird and bee populations and impacts to human health from unregulated pesticide/herbicide use (such as carcinogens and hormone disruptors). Carson’s warning was simple but important: that the pesticide DDT didn’t stay where you sprayed it. It moved through insects and the birds \[…\]