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Indigenous Urban Ecological Knowledge:Cultivating Carbon as both an Inward and Outward Journey
David Morimoto, PhD
3 May 2015
The Great Carbon Disconnect
Like the loss ofthe family farm,
Urban sprawl has disconnected us from our Nature
…at the same time ithas given us emergentunderstanding
Greater Alewife Ecosystem: A Land of Contrasts
Unpaved parking lotBuilding removalEcosystem Restoration and Management
Forest Destruction for ‘development’Great Swamp memories
Carbon Re-Connection: Cultivating the Carbon that is Us by ‘Farming Carbon’ in Diverse Urban Wilds around us
Indigenous Urban Ecological Knowledge
Nature makes us normal (in addition to storing Carbon and providing a host of beneficial ecosystem services)