She’ll be speaking at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern on a panel entitled Environmental Conflict and Climate Change: The Grassroots vs Big Green

• view the live feed here at 12pm Eastern!

Then, at  10:30am Pacific / 1:30pm Eastern  she’ll be speaking on a panel entitled The Unusual Suspects: The Surprise Environmentalists Who Are Spreading the Clean Energy Gospel

• view the live feed here at 1:30 Eastern!

She’ll also be kicking off the African American Caucus at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern – you’ll have to follow along on twitter to see what’s happening there. No live feed!

Also, don’t miss her appearance at the Opening Keynote event at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern, alongside Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, AFSCME president Gerald McEntee, Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, and pundit and comedian Elon James White.

• Online stream there begins at 10pm Eastern here.

Keep checking back on the Majora Carter group blog, facebook and twitter for more coverage of the Netroots Nation Conference!

Engaged Philanthropy Conference in Minneapolis, MN
missashe: THIS @majoracarter we’ve learned how to make inequality profitable; it’s time to make equality profitable. #epcon
vantagepnt: RT @lovelyginger: We often know what to fight against; we need to find what to fight for. -@majoracarter #epcon
LJacobwith: Listening to inspiring keynote from @majoracarter at SVPMN #epcon. Amazing woman.

NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago, IL:
homelessnickle@majoracarter look at the crowd! Great turn out so far and there is still time before it starts.#neocon10 http://twitpic.com/1wrik8
rjsaunders@majoracarter: Loved your #neocon10 keynote! You are an inspiring woman.
benbeauvais@majoracarter: le Bronx is French for hot mess; scent as a design tool? Yes, please! #neocon10

General snapshots:
hibz@majoracarter: more green, less crime, more girl self esteem.. Then why not invest in green social economy #ylsmc #reworktw
bseale@MajoraCarter at #ReworkTW: enviro justice not only about polar bears. it’s also about giving people opportunities to be better.
oolanilsson@majoracarter is introducing us to horticultural infrastructure, trees reduces crime and raises girls self esteem #reworktw

Please send a note to any of these suggested outlets, or your own.
(Always include: full name, mailing address, phone, and e-mail)

LA Times – NY Times - Wall Street Journal – USA Today – Oprah – Gourmet – Black Enterprise – Baron’s – Fast Company – Farm Journal – Journal of Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment – Popular Science

Let us know if your writing gets picked up – email us at info@majoracartergroup.com – we want to help spread your words, too!

Thanks!
Team MCG

Tavis Smiley sat down with Majora to talk about gentrification – contrasting the Bronx and Harlem, public perceptions, location & land.

Listen below!

Or listen on the Tavis Smiley Show’s site here.

Everywhere there’s news of the devastation in Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake hit. It’s been less than a week since, and with aftershocks continuing to shake,  it’s just as important to give what you can.

Text YELE to 501501 to donate $5

Text HAITI to 501501 to donate 10

or visit this link to donate.

Click on the image below to see Majora’s full 65 minute interview with Wyclef Jean – courtesy of WNYC.org.

We were pretty excited this morning to take a little mini photo essay on it — we love seeing it peeking out above the buildings full of sunshine, inspiration and positivity!

Come by and take a look (here’s a link to the map so you can see where it’s located)! Many thanks to Groundswell for developing this project with us. We’re aiming to develop a series of these beautiful murals, so keep your eyes peeled.

The official ceremony is on November 24th…check in here closer to the date and be sure to check out updates on  Twitter to get all the latest news!

The Majora Carter Group is consulting with the Make it Right foundation to build a green collar jobs program in the 9th ward, further aiding the rebuilding, resurgence and recreation of the culturally iconic neighborhood in New Orleans – a neighborhood once called home by the likes of Fats Domino, Marshal Faulk…to say nothing of dozens of local musicians and local families.

This program would create a skilled green-collar workforce – working for and within the community – that could become a part of creating a greater economic ecosystem in an area devastated by disaster and plagued by economic blight.

Make it Right in New Orleans, working with the Majora Carter Group, shows that rebuilding is more than just bricks and mortar, it’s also about people and the economy – keeping current residents in the community and offering opportunities to those who look to return home.

www.good.is/shows/inventions

If you could invent anything, what would it be? Majora Carter, an environmental justice advocate and founder of the Majora Carter Group –a green-collar economic consulting firm, suggested a Love Virus. While the concept may seem full of good intentions, it is a rather practical and beneficial virus for the kind of work Majora Carter is involved in. As president of the Majora Carter Group and former executive director of the Sustainable South Bronx, a substantial barrier to green-collar economic projects is getting different sectors of business, community groups, and government agencies to find the considerable value in each other and a common goal through green-economic resources.

By fixing the “empathy-deficit” of business leaders, community organizers, and government bureaucrats, the Love Virus could provide the much-needed impetus for the profound mental transformation needed for essential environmental change. A virus that infects people with love, an infectious, low-grade ecstasy, sounds like an affliction we could definitely use.
What’s your invention?

Animation by David Lamps
Directed by Max Joseph
Produced by Eve Marson
Edited by Simon Hawkins
Music by Alan Wilkis

Lifetime celebrates Majora Carter, as she works to turn environmentally challenged areas into beautiful thriving communities through the power of connectivity – and finding the value in every person, every place. In her struggle to not be defined by the waste and environmental decay that surrounded her, Carter made a personal stake in her community by founding the Sustainable South Bronx, an environmental project-oriented organization dedicated to revitalizing the South Bronx.

Using her experience from Sustainable South Bronx and other environmental community groups in bridging gaps, increasing the potential value in all groups, and providing a framework for sustainable projects, Carter created the Majora Carter Group, LLC. As a private, for-profit green-collar economic consulting firm, the Majora Carter Group implements a progressive economic development approach based on the fact that there are still more South Bronx’s waiting to be saved.

As an environmental justice activist, Majora Carter’s goal is to educate those in her community and beyond that they are not just a part of the problem but can be an active and transformative force in the solution.