Local entrepreneurs may be the people best able to help turn around struggling neighborhoods. Majora Carter earned national attention, and a MacArthur grant, for her work pushing for environmentally friendly development in the South Bronx. Now she is a leading national figure in the movement for sustainable economic development in cities across the country. In her speech at the TedX Midwest conference last fall, Carter spoke about some of the people who have applied entrepreneurial thinking in working to revive their communities economically and make them healthier, more sustainable environments.
Posted
01-11-2011 8:14 AM
by
Graham Griffith