Urban Renewal by Greening the Ghetto – Majora Carter’s Tale of Urban Renewal, on TED
“Her work is focused on improving the landscape and environment within impoverished and low-income communities. Carter starts at home, where she grew up, in the South Bronx.
Majora Carter is an American environmental advocate and artist. She has demonstrated a range of environmental justice solution strategies in her hometown of the South Bronx, New York and currently works as the Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx).
Greening the Ghetto
Majora Carter gave the above compelling talk at the TED 2006 Conference, aptly titled “Majora’s tale of urban renewal” – by greening the ghetto. She detailed her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx – and showed how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy.
Besides it’s substance, this talk was so good that Guy Kawasaki dissected it extensively, writing that Majora is as good as Steve Jobs at presentation.
I highly recommend this TED talk. You can watch it, read reviews and download it at the TED web site.
This is what others say about Majora Carter:
“I admire Carter’s mission “Environmental justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects… people are creative and powerful. We are all creative and powerful. I read a story like hers and feel my own capacity for creating positive change in the world around me. Creativity is vitality! She is an artist as well as an activist, so I’ll dub her as an official “Artivist”.
- www.gemsalsberg.com
“Now, I’d like to specifically suggest that you watch the video of Majora Carter because there’s a lot we can all learn from this magnificent performance.”
- blog.guykawasaki.com
Let us learn, share and go green for a more sustainable habitat.
