Edible Spruce: Cones and Spring Tips—Foraging Immature Norway Spruce male cones, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . Intending to forage the new spring tips of the local spruce here in Ontario, I visited a grove of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) in a n…

Young spruce tips are out! And they're edible ... #foraging #sprucetips #ediblewild #wildedibles themeaningofwater.com/2021/05/20/e...

An Alvar Ecosystem: A Hidden Meadow Treasure Juniper and sumac shrubs in a snow-dusted alvar meadow, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) It was two years ago, on a crisp April morning—as I walked the naturalized trail through Peterborough—that magic …

Hidden meadow treasure ... #alvar #ecology #environment #Nature themeaningofwater.com/2022/04/23/a...

Celebrating Spring Blooms Scilla siberica enjoys the verges of the forests and fields, creating carpets of purple and blue, depending on the light (photos by Nina Munteanu) The recent soft rains of mid-April have brought ou…

Celebrating the #beauty of #spring ... themeaningofwater.com/2024/04/14/c...

The Spring Beauty of Scilla Scilla siberica in a clearing by a trail, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . One of the joys of spring is encountering nature’s wild flowers in my walks through the local forest in Peterborough, O…

The #spring beauty of Scilla... #flowers #beauty themeaningofwater.com/2023/04/23/t...

Impactful Eco-Fiction Books In most fiction, environment plays a passive role that lies embedded in stability and an unchanging status quo. From Adam Smith’s 18thCentury economic vision to the conceit of bankers who drov…

Impactful eco-fiction books worth reading and discussing ... #ecofiction #booksworthreading #environment #clifi themeaningofwater.com/2025/05/25/i...

In Gaia's Revolution “Nina Munteanu shows her love for nature and water, and a deep knowledge of ecology… a dynamic plot and interesting, well-defined characters... A must-read!”–Claudiu Murgan, author of Water Entanglement and Crystal Cloud #BookReview #ecofiction #climatefiction #ecothriller

Gaia’s Revolution …When Saving the Planet Demands Impossible Choices… . Two brothers. A dying planet. One decision that ignites a revolution and reshapes humanity’s future. Discover Gaia’s Re…

You can read Chapter One of my new release "Gaia's Revolution" here: themeaningofwater.com/gaias-revolu... #books #ecofiction #climatefiction #thriller #ecothriller #specfic #Canada

Climate Change: The Line We Cannot Cross It’s 1.5°C. That’s the line we cannot cross. Or we’re f**ked and we’ve f**ked the entire world too. Crossing into 2.0°C of global warming seems small, but it isn’t. Remember that this is a global a…

On the line we cannot cross ... #climatechange #climateaction #environment #existentialism #existentialcrisis themeaningofwater.com/2026/04/19/c...

Character-coupling in fiction ... Giving voice to the other... #onwriting #fictionwriting #TheOther #Othering #charactersinfiction

A Diary in the Age of Water Featured in PhD Thesis on Heterogenous Being My eco-fiction novel A Diary in the Age of Water was recently discussed in a 2025 PhD thesis by Steven L. Ogden out of the University of Albany, State University of New York entitled: “Heterogenous…

My #ecofiction novel "A Diary in the Age of Water" is featured in a PhD thesis out of New York State University on 'Heterogenous Being' and 'the other' #books #bookstudy #environment #study ninamunteanu.me/2026/04/19/a...

My Drive Across Canada: Part 1—Lake Superior It was time to go back out west for me. So, I packed up my car Benny with my precious treasures—including all my plants—and drove west from Peterborough, Ontario (where I’d been living for a decade…

My experience on #LakeSuperior ... Drawing a limnological version of Crocodile Dundee's famous quote: "That's not a lake; THAT's a lake!" #lakes #limnology #Canada ninamunteanu.me/2025/11/09/m...

A Walk in Watershed Park, British Columbia Since moving back to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia after living for a while in Ontario, I’ve been reacquainting myself with the local forests. My son reminded me that I used to drive him t…

A walk in a BC coastal rainforest ... #WatershedPark #BritishColumbia #forest #rainforest #Nature #walking #beauty themeaningofwater.com/2025/11/16/a...

The Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)—Foraging He that has a good harvest must be content with some thistles—Spanish Proverb On my daily walks to the local marshy stream by a large meadow, a cluster of Bull thistles has recently burst into bril…

The Bull Thistle ... a stufy of this thorned beauty ... #flowers #foraging #thistle themeaningofwater.com/2020/09/06/t...

The Semi-Colon is Dead; Long Live the Semicolon Ice forms on the shores of Jackson Creek in early winter, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) I’ve been a coaching writers for over two decades. I help fiction and non-fiction writers get published. I teac…

The semi-colon is dead; long live the semicolon ... On #punctuation and ... well ... the much misunderstood semi-colon; a writer's magic wand... #semicolon #AI #onwriting #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2021/02/28/t...

Cities in the Time of Climate Change: A Landscape Approach to Greening the City Urban centres are particularly unprepared for the increased storms, floods, heat and drought that climate change is bringing. In the years to come, cities in Canada will feel the extremes of climat…

Cities in the time of #climatechange ... a landscape approach to greening the city ... #urbanplanning #landscapearchitecture #greening #cities #sustainability themeaningofwater.com/2018/02/21/c...

Turning Cities into Sponges: Viewing The City as a Living Organism The warming of the planet’s atmosphere is causing water to move more quickly and disruptively through the global water cycle. Extreme events are occurring more frequently. Flood, drought, fire, win…

Turning cities into sponges: viewing the city as a living organism ... THIS is the way toward #sustainability #urbanplanning #landscapearchitecture #ecology #urbanecology themeaningofwater.com/2019/11/23/t...

When a Leaf Turns into a Skeleton… Litter of decomposing dead leaves, Trent Nature Sanctuary, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) On one of my walks in the damp forest of early winter, I noticed several leaves that had turned lacy, revealin…

When dead things turn into art ... #skeletonization #leaves #decay themeaningofwater.com/2026/02/22/w...

Nina Munteanu, Gaia's Revolution - Dragonfly: An exploration of eco-fiction Thanks so much to Nina Munteanu for this article introducing her just-released Gaia’s Revolution to our dear, gentle readers. Gaia’s Revolution: Life After Capitalism—Will We Survive? Gaia’s Revolutio...

An exploration of ecofiction with #GaiasRevolution #ecofiction #books #Canada #capitalism #TheIcariaTrilogy dragonfly.eco/nina-muntean...

Edible Spruce: Cones and Spring Tips—Foraging Immature Norway Spruce male cones, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . Intending to forage the new spring tips of the local spruce here in Ontario, I visited a grove of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) in a n…

Edible spruce ... time to forage! #sprucetips #foraging #ediblewild #wildedibles themeaningofwater.com/2021/05/20/e...

The sustainability of "Snowpiercer" ... A walk through the train of the last of humanity... #sustainability #Snowpiercer #climatechange #climatefiction #ecosystem www.realityskimming.com/post/the-sus...

A Diary in the Age of Water is "exceptional and thought-provoking dystopian fiction.”--Literary Titan #bookreview #BookReviews #AgeOfWater #ecofiction #books

“Water doesn’t like to be restricted. If confined in a ravine, it speeds up and cuts a channel along the thalweg, eroding the hardest material and polishing a path that uniquely suits it. Water is always moving, even when it isn’t.”-Lynna Dresden, limnologist #water #ecofiction #books #AgeOfWater

Sustainability in Snowpiercer Nina Munteanu on sustainability as seen through the lens of popular TNT series Snowpiercer.

On the sustainability of "Snowpiercer" ... #TVshow #Snowpiercer #sustainability www.realityskimming.com/post/the-sus...

Yes! Wasn't it? One of the best shows I've seen in a while...

“There simply aren’t enough Canadians to protect our wilderness; but if there were enough of us, there’d be no wilderness left to protect.”--Lynna Dresden, limnologist (in "A Diary in the Age of Water" #ecofiction #books #AgeOfWater

DuPont’s Decades-Long Legacy of Crime: 1970s DuPont CEO Charles B. McCoy Who was on watch and ultimately responsible: DuPont CEO Charles B. McCoy (1967 to 1981) in the 1970s, twenty years after 3M showed PFAS bioaccumulation in mice, DuPont’s…

Environmental crimes... #Dupont #criminals themeaningofwater.com/2024/02/25/d...

Canadians: Do You Know If There Are Forever Chemicals in Your Drinking Water? Trent University on the Otonabee River, an unprotected drinking water source for Peterborough, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) You should know, but do you?If you live in Canada, chances are that you ha…

Drinking water in Canada ... #foreverchemicals #drinkingwater #globalpollution #Canada themeaningofwater.com/2023/05/07/c...

“Lead Children”: The Heaviness of Poland under Communism I recently discovered the Polish TV series Lead Children on Netflix—and pretty much binge-watched it. This gripping 6-episode series follows young Doctor Jolanta Wadowska-Król (played by Joanna Kul…

I recently watched an excellent series on Netflix: an environmental political thriller that takes place in communist Poland ... #Poland #communism #leadpoisoning #industry #environment themeaningofwater.com/2026/04/12/l...

The Hyperobject of Sustainability Ecologist and SF author Nina Munteanu looks at theories and definitions of sustainability from hyperobject to ESG.

Sustainability is a fractal phenomenon... and more ... #sustainability #hyperobjects #ecology #ESG #capitalism www.realityskimming.com/post/the-hyp...

My SF #ecofiction novel "Gaia's Revolution" is selling in Russia and Korea! COOL! Oh, and in the UK too! :) #booksellers #bookstores #books