Environmental and urban planning advocate Majora Carter advises cities, foundations, universities, businesses, and communities around the world on unlocking their green-collar economic potential to benefit everyone. In 2001, she founded Sustainable South Bronx to achieve environmental justice through economically sustainable projects formed by community needs. Today, through the Majora Carter Group, LLC, her work simultaneously addresses public health, poverty alleviation, and climate change. She is currently working in the city of Detroit on a project to train residents to become “urban agriculture technicians” and to organize a market for selling the products throughout the greater Detroit area. Carter’s work has earned numerous awards including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
SOURCE: http://www.cityfarmer.info
CONTACT: info@majoracartergroup.com
EDITOR’S NOTE: Major Carter Group is a catalyst for creating community projects that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. The consultancy makes the ideologies of urban agriculture a long term reality.
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