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Smart Growth Speaker Series: Greening the Ghetto, and How Much It Won't Cost Us
Event Theme/Description:
After decades of increasing and unprecedented philanthropic giving in the U.S., public health, income disparities, educational outcomes, and incarceration and recidivism are all getting worse. Decisions about growth and development -- rather than addressing these issues -- often exacerbate these problems. As a result, communities are left with the high costs associated with helping people overcome generational poverty, recover from traumatic combat and/or prison experiences, and generally attain a better quality of life.
Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, will speak from her experience revitalizing the Hunts Point area to explain how "horticultural infrastructure" is not only a key component of successful and efficient stormwater runoff management -- it can also simultaneously address the issues associated with healing the people mentioned above. Ms. Carter will describe how the manner in which we distribute jobs in horticultural engineering -- and to whom -- can have multiple social, economic and environmental benefits if done with intelligence and care.
Majora Carter is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, host of Eco-Heroes on Sundance Channel and The Promised Land on NPR. She was awarded the National Building Museum's "Visionaries in Sustainability" award in June 2009, and is currently President of her own economic development consulting group.
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The Smart Growth Speaker
Series hosts speakers on a monthly basis to describe this
development paradigm, explore specific approaches, to
foster dialog, and identify opportunities for positive change
in growth and development patterns. Event sponsors are the
Smart Growth Network, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
and the National Building Museum. The series, which is free
to the public, is held at the National Building Museum, 401
F Street N.W, Washington D.C. (Judiciary Square Metro).
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