Carbon in the air harms us. Nature can pull carbon out of the air and sink it underground and underwater. That makes it a powerful climate stabilizer. Carrboro has a powerful partner to make our town more resilient in the face of a climate getting hotter each year. That partner is the Bolin Forest composted of over 400 acres west of Seawell School Road.
Consider this:
- Living ecosystems such as tropical forests store more than 100 gigatons of carbon that, once lost, can’t be recovered in time to reduce warming in the next decade.
- Conserving and restoring our natural areas can provide more than 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions we need to stabilize our climate by 2030.
- Bolin Forest makes our air cleaner. by absorbing 9,276 metric tons in Carrboro alone.