Visionary urban planners and community organizers recognize that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires drawing down carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it back where it belongs in natural systems. Urban forestry is a nature-based solution that simultaneously addresses the parallel crises of climate change and wealth inequality. With Brett KenCairn, Boulder city Senior Advisor and Samira Malone, Urban Forestry Program Manager at the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.
This is an episode of Nature’s Genius, a special Bioneers series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. Visit bioneers.org/natures-genius/ to hear more.