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Greening the ghetto —Majora Carter

Child of the ghetto grows up to raise a park out of trash and to invite the rich and famous to join her to make sustainable development that works for all three of developers, community, and government sexy and profitable. A stray dog one day led her down a forgotten street to the river. She got a seed grant, leveraged it 300 times, and turned that street into a park.

She’s talking about the south Bronx in New York City, and the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, but I think in her problems and solutions you will see some similarities to the south side of Valdosta. If the Chamber was helping with this kind of thing, that would make a far more positive difference to education and real estate values for the whole community, both inside and outside Valdosta, than pushing destructive school “unification”.

It’s a TED Talk.

-jsq

PS: Owed to Scout Smith.