<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for An interview with Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by roncastle http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:46:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/1 A money making green business for the Bronx

An EcoCover plant in the Bronx running 3 shifts 5 days a week could generate over $6 million in product sales, with a pretax net of over $2 million, employ over 20 folks at better than living wage jobs (even in da city) and take about 30 tons of waste paper a week out of the NYC landfill stream (much of which is being barged down the East Coast for disposal).  The EcoCover mulch mat could be sold to the City's 5 boroughs for community landscaping, to the remaining farms on Long Island, to Jersey, Connecticut, Eastern PA and beyond.

An EcoCover plant emits no toxins, no pollutants, no VOCs and can be sited almost anywhere.

Read more http://www.roncastle.com/ecocover/

]]> A money making green business for the Bronx

An EcoCover plant in the Bronx running 3 shifts 5 days a week could generate over $6 million in product sales, with a pretax net of over $2 million, employ over 20 folks at better than living wage jobs (even in da city) and take about 30 tons of waste paper a week out of the NYC landfill stream (much of which is being barged down the East Coast for disposal).  The EcoCover mulch mat could be sold to the City's 5 boroughs for community landscaping, to the remaining farms on Long Island, to Jersey, Connecticut, Eastern PA and beyond.

An EcoCover plant emits no toxins, no pollutants, no VOCs and can be sited almost anywhere.

Read more http://www.roncastle.com/ecocover/

]]> Comment #2 by mihan http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:59:05 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/2 Hottest. Genius. Ever.

]]> Hottest. Genius. Ever.

]]> Comment #3 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:39:32 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/3 what a visionary!

Majora Brown is truly courageous to take on the waste-management problem.  Not only does she run up against the NIMBY types in City Council, as she says, but also the privatization thing potentially puts her into confrontation with some very shady people, whose families have been running waste management forever.  Do they have organized-crime connexions?  Well, I would certainly not be prepared to say so, but you might very well believe that.

I very much like her waterfront park idea for the South Bronx.  It is a pity that what with all the water round about the boroughs of New York, so little waterfront is attractive or accessible.  There are notable exceptions, such as what we have here up and down the Upper West Side.  But mostly our waterfront is wasted.

And of course her eco-job-training program is magnificent beyond words.

Pity that Al Gore and/or Al Gore's people gave her such a cold, bureaucratic response.  One wonders what their side of the story might be.

Anyway, her comments on "An Inconvenient Truth," both the movie and the on-going project, sound like the most balanced review that I have read.

]]> what a visionary!

Majora Brown is truly courageous to take on the waste-management problem.  Not only does she run up against the NIMBY types in City Council, as she says, but also the privatization thing potentially puts her into confrontation with some very shady people, whose families have been running waste management forever.  Do they have organized-crime connexions?  Well, I would certainly not be prepared to say so, but you might very well believe that.

I very much like her waterfront park idea for the South Bronx.  It is a pity that what with all the water round about the boroughs of New York, so little waterfront is attractive or accessible.  There are notable exceptions, such as what we have here up and down the Upper West Side.  But mostly our waterfront is wasted.

And of course her eco-job-training program is magnificent beyond words.

Pity that Al Gore and/or Al Gore's people gave her such a cold, bureaucratic response.  One wonders what their side of the story might be.

Anyway, her comments on "An Inconvenient Truth," both the movie and the on-going project, sound like the most balanced review that I have read.

]]> Comment #4 by kmp http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:49:01 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/4 roncastle

Must you use every Gristmill thread to pimp your EcoCover product?  Could you maybe just settle for one pimp a day?

Sheesh.

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Must you use every Gristmill thread to pimp your EcoCover product?  Could you maybe just settle for one pimp a day?

Sheesh.

]]> Comment #5 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:21:28 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/5 Great Story


   I hope that everyone who posts and reads Grist will read this story and think about it.

   Here's to the day when the environmental justice movement IS the environmental movement.

patrick

]]> Great Story


   I hope that everyone who posts and reads Grist will read this story and think about it.

   Here's to the day when the environmental justice movement IS the environmental movement.

patrick

]]> Comment #6 by fvanoly http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:58:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/6 Get her on the Ecobabe calendar!!

]]> Get her on the Ecobabe calendar!!

]]> Comment #7 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:26:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/7 A Greener Solution

Want a greener solution to living healthy in the South Bronx?  

MOVE!  

Get out of their as soon as you can and take your kids with you!    There's plenty of better places for a person to live than New York City and rents are much cheaper.

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Want a greener solution to living healthy in the South Bronx?  

MOVE!  

Get out of their as soon as you can and take your kids with you!    There's plenty of better places for a person to live than New York City and rents are much cheaper.

]]> Comment #8 by accel2 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:55:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/8 another day, another troll

If we moved out of NYC to somewhere cheaper and "better", does it mean we'd be as ignorant and as bad a speller as you?

Just wond'rin.

]]> another day, another troll

If we moved out of NYC to somewhere cheaper and "better", does it mean we'd be as ignorant and as bad a speller as you?

Just wond'rin.

]]> Comment #9 by etony247 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:11:18 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/9 Great idea whost time has come

What a great idea!  We are trying to get a green roof installed by Majora's organization and we are looking forward to helping the ecosystem in the South East Bronx area in the near future.

]]> Great idea whost time has come

What a great idea!  We are trying to get a green roof installed by Majora's organization and we are looking forward to helping the ecosystem in the South East Bronx area in the near future.

]]> Comment #10 by sujit http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:19:28 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/m_carter/10 So moving

Majora Carter's speech at TED was one of the most moving I've heard. Nice to see her featured here too.
Wish her all the best.

]]> So moving

Majora Carter's speech at TED was one of the most moving I've heard. Nice to see her featured here too.
Wish her all the best.

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