1.
Indigenous Urban Ecological Knowledge:
Cultivating Carbon as both an Inward and
Outward Journey
David Morimoto, PhD
3 May 2015

2.
The Great
Carbon
Disconnect
Like the loss of
the family farm,
Urban sprawl has
disconnected us
from our Nature
…at the same time it
has given us emergent
understanding

3.
Ecosystems,
Carbon,
and
Biodiversity:
Watershed
Landscape
Community
Population
Individual

4.
Greater Alewife Ecosystem: A Land of
Contrasts
Unpaved parking lot
Building removal
Ecosystem Restoration and Management
Forest Destruction for ‘development’
Great Swamp memories

5.
Cultivating Carbon by Connecting to
Place: Natural History Immersion

6.
Science 345, 1558 (2014);
Georgina M. Mace
Whose conservation?
It’s time for
some
enlightened
action!

7.
Carbon Re-Connection: Cultivating the Carbon that is Us by
‘Farming Carbon’ in Diverse Urban Wilds around us

8.
Indigenous Urban Ecological Knowledge
Nature makes us normal (in addition to storing
Carbon and providing a host of beneficial
ecosystem services)

9.
Like Alewives overcoming the barriers of human development in
order to complete age old migrations, we must overcome the
separation from nature caused urban life to reclaim natural
history as our oldest continuous human activity….cultivating
carbon as both an inward and outward journey…