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Great article about our recent visit to Detroit!
"Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But ...it would be run by local community growers themselves."
www.freep.com
The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.
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What do you want in your next Mayor? Better yet, If You Were Mayor how would you lead the city, what choices would you make? Here is your chance to let everyone know. Share your thoughts on the problems and challenges we face and your ideas and solutions. All submissions will be open to the public ...
Majora Carter Another great video about the Uptown Girl Power Mural!
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The new Uptown Girl Power mural at 825 Hunts Point Avenue was unveiled on Nov. 24, 2009 in the neighborhood of Hunts Point in the South Bronx. Its the first in a series titled Yes SHE Can sponsored by the Majora Carter Group. ...
Majora Carter You should be able to tune in here tomorrow (Tues) - at 12:15 EST to watch Majora's interview on CNN online!
www.cnn.com
Majora Carter ... interview for the Joy Trip Project about the social effects of climate change.
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"...given that you know you got the fact that you’ve got people from the outside going “Oh! That’s a poor community and the don’t know any better.” And then you also have people on the inside feeling that they don’t deserve any better. That is not an easy place to work. It’s just not. And unfortuna...
James Edward Mills Majora Carter: A podcast interview from the Breaking the Color Barrier in the Great Outdoors conference on urban revitalization
joytripproject.org
Delegates from about 190 countries are gathering over the next two weeks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Although this is a landmark event, the largest meeting ever to discuss the environmental future of our planet. ...
Majora Carter Ms. Eva talking about the Bronx and the Uptown Girl Power Mural!
Ms. Eva speaks about the new Uptown Girl Power Mural at our unveiling ceremony Nov 24th, 2009.
Length:1:04
Majora Carter "We've got huge pools in major cities and otherwise of people who want to be a part of something... that's all anybody really wants when you think about it - to be loved, to contribute to society, and really feel like they're making a difference and you often do that through your economic bottom line."
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According to environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, getting serious about job creation in NYC will mean funneling money toward green manufacturing and clean tech industries, not pro sports.
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One of the first green jobs programs in the US was started in the South Bronx, by a filmmaker turned community activist.
Majora Carter If you missed the discussion last night with David Owen, you can listen in here!
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