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Majora Carter
American
Activist
Born:
Oct 27
,
1966
Because
Environmental
People
Power
Think
You
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Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
Majora Carter
You
Else
Hauled
Someone
Throw
Piece
Because
Affecting
Gets
Just
Just Because
Mean
Trash
Away
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use of water, and also refrigeration.
Majora Carter
Food
Water
Too Much
Big
Too
Benefiting
Our
System
Economically
Also
Chemical
Fertilization
American
Current
Urban
Poor
Much
Use
Transportation
Working-Class
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
Majora Carter
Environmental
You
Justice
Benefits
Community
Other
Those
Something
More
Term
Like
Familiar
Than
Burdens
Goes
Any
May
Should
Less
Who
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
Environmental
Justice
Economic Development
Projects
Bronx
Economic
Through
Development
Advocate
South
South Bronx
Sustainable
I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
Majora Carter
Positive
Business
Money
Goals
Local
Everyone
Ways
Find
More
Small
Small Business
Economic
Host
Also
Am
Efficiently
Owner
Realize
Business Owner
Use
Strategist
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
Majora Carter
Health
People
Believe
Too
Solutions
Costs
Cheaper
Equation
Still
Handling
Green
Same
Expensive
Public
Social
Much
Public Health
Many
Waste
Actually
Services
Most people don't know that the biggest regret that I have - and it's a biggie - is not fighting harder for policy and very practical measures to support the development of the green jobs industry.
Majora Carter
People
Regret
Fighting
Jobs
Support
Development
Know
Most
Practical
Industry
Policy
Very
Green
Biggest
Biggie
Measures
Harder
'This will pass and it always does.' I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to those dark places a lot, and sometimes they're real. You're wondering if you can you make payroll. There is a deadline, and you haven't slept in a while. It's real.
Majora Carter
Myself
You
Dark
Sometimes
Entrepreneur
Will
Slept
Consistently
Those
Telling
Dark Places
Make
Deadline
Because
Does
Pass
Always
Real
Go
Lot
Wondering
Being
While
Places
Means
Payroll
Keep
We need to work together to embrace and repair our land, repair our power systems, and repair ourselves. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums, and other tributes to all of our collective failures.
Majora Carter
Work
Time
Together
Shopping
Collective
Power
Building
Other
Our
Ourselves
Systems
Embrace
Failures
Repair
Prisons
Malls
Stop
Stadiums
Land
Work Together
Need
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz. Both are waterfront communities that host both industries and residents in close proximity of one another.
Majora Carter
Innovation
People
Jazz
Think
Waterfront
Ninth
Bronx
Both
Color
Host
Had
New
Industries
Another
Prior
Hip-Hop
Were
Cultural
South
Lot
New Orleans
South Bronx
Close
Close Proximity
Proximity
Common
Ward
Poor
Poor People
Communities
Katrina
Largely
Orleans
Residents
I do have a problem with developments that hyper-exploit politically vulnerable communities for profit. That it continues is a shame upon us all, because we are all responsible for the future that we create.
Majora Carter
Future
Problem
Profit
Responsible
Shame
Developments
Because
Vulnerable
Politically
Us
Create
Communities
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