Majora Carter Wins Peabody Award for her radio show The Promised Land with Majora Carter, a forum for deep, eye-opening conversations about the environment and justice; Peabody Says: If there’s such a thing as eye-opening radio, Carter’s series, devoted to helping her audience envision a more just, sustainable world, is it.
Majora Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 — when very few people were even talking about “sustainability,” and even fewer in places like the South Bronx. By 2003, she coined the term “Green the Ghetto” as she pioneered one of the nation’s first urban green-collar job training and placement systems. Her organization spearheaded new policies and legislation that fueled demand for those jobs, improved the lives of New Yorkers, and served as a model for the nation.
Majora’s 2006 TEDtalk was one of the first six presentations to launch that groundbreaking website. Since 2008, her consulting company has been exporting climate adaptation, urban micro-agribusiness, and leadership development strategies for business, state and local governments, federal agencies, foundations, universities, and economically underperforming communities.
Here’s what Robert Redford says about his Promised Land…What’s your Promised look like?