BU URBAN Trainee Emma Daily is recently back from COP29, where she gave a presentation on carbon credits and served on a panel with URBAN Director Pam Templer discussing intergenerational climate solutions. Great work, Emma!

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Also, Baku is a deeply cool place with amazing fruit and soups (among many other things)

Ever grateful for the opportunity to observe COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan this year! Our group from the Climate Leaders Academy & Oak Ridge National Lab presented research on the integrity of forest carbon credits in the Southeastern US.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the ...

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer reads like a gift.

Commodification begets scarcity; gifting begets abundance.

We know how to give; we offer mutual aid after catastrophe. “The challenge is to cultivate our inherent capacity for gift economies without the catalyst of catastrophes.”

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