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October 2025: nature-based solutions

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.

This week's module: REFLECT

• ✅ CONNECT | Conversation prompts on nature-based solutions
• ✅ LEARN | What do nature-based solutions look like in practice?
• ✅ ACT | How you can advocate for a climate-resilient world with biomimicry
• 🎯REFLECT | The nature alphabet, brought to you by you

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

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Here's what we'll learn today Reader

Happy Scorpio Szn! My birthday's coming up, and I will be a menace about it.

Enjoy your final days with pre-menace Nivi. All bets are off starting next Tuesday which kicks off NIVEMBER.

Today concludes October's topic on nature-based solutions and we'll wrap with our REFLECT module where you'll learn your ABCs.

Before we get there, I want to share a few fun off-topic updates:

• Yesterday I met someone who demonstrates the BEST case for more public transit. It involves kissing. Read it here.​
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• That same person also told me about a new term I'd never heard: ecocriticism. No, it's not that the Earth is canceled. It's basically literary analysis through an environmental lens... which combines all my interests?! Might heck around and get myself a degree.
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• I got to be a guest on my first-ever live podcast show! It was so cool! Amanda from Clotheshorse Podcast AKA "the podcast that loves clothes but hates capitalism" aka the best sustainable podcast ever rented out a theatre in Seattle and it was A FANTASTIC night. I made a reel on my personal page with a clip about how dystopia needs to die. Very ecocritic of me, I've learned!

Pics below of the Clotheshorse live show and a thrifted shirt I got with the best iron-on message.

Photo courtesy of Alifia and my bathroom selfie skills.

We can't do this without you Reader A wee lil note: if you enjoy getting these Changeletters and you would like to make a gift of reciprocity, a $9 contribution would go such a long way. Especially if you make it monthly! 100% of this work is me sitting behind my keyboard stressing about if anyone cares about this stuff, so encouragement and financial support is so greatly appreciated! Thank you Sarah for supporting this month! Gratitude button

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Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ REFLECT by reading this alphabet aloud to yourself, teaching it to a child, or illustrating all/part of it and sending it back to me! And find ONE new word you'll use this week.

Last week we talked about now the words we're using to describe nature are disappearing, and bringing nature words back was one of our bite-sized actions.

Thank you all for playing! This was SUCHHHHHH such such a fun exercise. Huge shoutouts to everyone who participated, but especially Lydia and Jillian who submitted multiple words.

Jillian came up with like... basically the entire alphabet, and it is FANTASTIC.

It would be so cool to get this published as a children's (or slightly older children's) book.

✨ Should we do it?! ✨

If you want to contribute, pick a word and send me an illustration. No Al, please, just good vibes. I bet we can spin something up before the holidays. Maybe it's too ambitious but so is saving the world.

Before you go on your merry way of reading the nature alphabet, remember to catch up on our last three weeks of nature-based solutions content here. It'll take you under 10 mins.

Okay! Happy ABCing. Let's bring back those words. And thank you so much for donating to our HARVEST OF THE FUTURE campaign. It means a lot, and we're still tallying up corporate matches.

L is for Love,

Nivi

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The Nature Alphabet Version 1, by Soapbox Project and Planet Earth

Apricity (a word for the warmth of the sun in the winter. I had to look it up and found this lovely list)

Bioluminescence

Chlorophyll

Deciduous

Earth

Flora (and fauna)

Glade

Halcyon

Iridescent

Jade

Katabatic (A katabatic wind is a downslope wind caused by the flow of an elevated, high-density air mass into a lower-density air mass below under the force of gravity)

Lynx

Moonbow

Nimbus (a luminous vapor, cloud, or atmosphere about a god or goddess when on earth)

Overgrowth

Petrichor

Quicken (to come to life; e.g. seeds quickening in the soil)

Resplendent

Susurrus (a whispering or rustling sound)

Tempest

Umbra

Verdant

Wane

Xylem (omg I'm so happy because I was gonna say xylophone and call it a day)

Yeti

Zephyr

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