About Their
Journey. . . |
 In the late 1990's Majora Carter took a bold step into the world of urban planning - simultaneously working to shift a Giuliani administration plan from additional waste handling for the South Bronx to positive green development, while scoring a $1.25M Federal Transportation planning grant to design the South Bronx Greenway. This 11 mile network of bike and pedestrian paths connects neighborhoods to the river front and each other with low impact storm water management features, local entrepreneurship opportunities that economically encourage active living and reduce traffic congestion.
She went on to spearhead the first South Bronx waterfront park in over 60 years (see image left), and in the process Majora amassed a beautiful collection of strange bedfellows from policy makers to business leaders and community members that made those projects happen. While this project is an important and very visible accomplishment, it was only a part of a larger strategy to move under-performing communities into a healthy and productive economic condition.
In 2001, Majora Carter founded the pioneering and highly successful non-profit environmental justice solutions corp.: Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx); serving as Executive Director until mid 2008.
Barry and Dolly met Majora at CGI in 2006, and Barry committed $500,000 over 5 years to the Sustainable South Bronx.
With a focus on goals over ideology, Majora Carter then built one of the nation's first and most successful urban green-collar job training and placement systems by 2003. Moving on from Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter brings the value of this type of leadership & talent to bridge the gaps between clients and the interests we all want served. Majora Carter Group, LLC can help clients connect the value of government goals, business & industry and community. We want to use our integrity and abilities to bring disparate parties together to help break the impasse between sustainability goals and entrenched inter-stakeholder distrust with buy-in from all parties, by creating an environment where all dreams can thrive.
Energy consumption, public health, storm-water management, prison recidivism, school performance, social services, stagnant property values, climate change adaptation, and income & health disparities can all be tied to environmental remediation on a municipal or regional scale. The community of interests that make up a village, a city, a region, are all connected by the people and dollars circulating through them. The Majora Carter Group opens the doors to solutions that benefit several concerns with the same dollars.
Money spent on public health & incarceration costs, imported energy resources, and conventional waste disposal, creates one-way movements of capital out of local economies. By contrast, robust distributed investments in SSBx-style solutions - adapted to local climactic conditions - pay for themselves through more effective economic multipliers as money works from the pockets of people who are presently regarded as problems. We help create new tax-bases, while removing obligations from the tax ledgers. |
