EVENT (Toronto): Majora Carter on Greening the Neighbourhood..and how much it won't cost us

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Greening the Neighbourhood.. and how much it won’t cost us
Keynote by Majora Carter

followed by panel with Joe Pantalone, Ben Powless, Blake Poland, & Eric Miller
Friday March 13, 2009, noon-2pm
@ UofT’s Hart House
A special presentation sponsored by Hart House, the Metcalf Foundation, UTERN, The Cities Centre, the Centre for the Environment, & CIUT 99.5FM

A dynamic and passionate speaker, Majora Carter will explore how sustainability, economic community building, and social and environmental justice converge to improve and renew neighborhoods in innovative ways. She will also speak to her compelling personal story of activism emerging from her experiences growing up in the South Bronx.

Major Carter: From 2001 to 2008 she was Executive Director of the non-profit she founded: Sustainable South Bronx - where she pioneered green-collar job training and placement systems in one of the most environmentally and economically challenged parts of the US. This MacArthur “genius” is now president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel’s The Green, and host of a new special public radio series called, The Promised Land (thepromisedland.org).

Note: this event will be webcast live at http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca