Fast Company Magazine
June 2010
September 2010
“City planners, community organizers, professors, and environmentalists are turning to Carter because…”She’s one of the parents of the green-collar-jobs movement,” says Adam Werbach, chief sustainability officer at ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi.”
 Bloomberg Businessweek
Published on April/May 2010
In 2007… experimented with scent on patients suffering serious trauma resulting in the loss of memory and, in some cases, speech. Another patient, who had emerged from a 12-month coma, was moved to words after the staff exposed him to the smell of a certain bread that had left an imprint from his childhood. The Majora Carter Group is working with IFF to develop a similarly innovative and uplifting fragrance strategy for a local residence in the South Bronx.
Published on April 01, 2009
In just over a decade, Ms. Carter, 42, has vaulted from working as a volunteer for what was a nascent organization called the Point Community Development Corporation and knowing almost nothing about environmental issues to becoming a nationally known advocate for environmental equality.
 Department of Homeland Security
Published on July 31st, 2009
“The task force, created in June, is an experienced group of energy and environmental experts who will advise Secretary Napolitano on ways to bolster national security by maximizing resource efficiency.”
Majora is proud to serve her country in this way.
Published on December 12, 2008
With unemployment an increasingly urgent problem – and global warming a growing concern as well – Carter is increasingly looking pretty darn brilliant.
 The Bark
Published on April/May 2010
Among Majora Carter’s landmark projects is the conversion of a stretch of debris-strewn riverside to a vibrant neighborhood park and the beginning of an 11-mile greenway. And she might never have discovered the place or its potential had it not been for her dog, Xena.
Published on October 27, 2008
Green activist Majora Carter made her name tackling joblessness in the South Bronx through daring green building programs. Now she’s taking her ambitions international.
Published on July 23, 2008
Combining urban planning and environmental activism, Majora Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to, as she put it, ‘green the ghetto.’
Published on July 01, 2008
The legacy of activism and awareness that has been part of the African-American experience has found a familiar battleground: planet Earth.
Published on June 05, 2008
Majora Carter, the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, is a passionate advocate of environmental equality. Her organization promotes green-collar jobs and sustainable development as a route out of poverty and to create stronger, healthier and greener communities.
25 Most Influential of 2007
Published on January 01, 2008
Majora Carter lives by this mantra: “Environmental rights are the civil rights of the twenty-first century.”
Published in January 01, 2008
That’s the message and the mission of Majora Carter, whose work has brought new hope to one of the poorest congressional districts in the country—and an important voice to policy debates.
Published on December 13, 2007
Squatting on the roof of a row house with a panoramic view of the sewage plants and warehouses that surround the South Bronx, James Wells sounds like a tree-hugger.
Scholastic Books
Published on September 01, 2007
While most people are content to rationalize the way things are, a very few are willing to dedicate their lives to human rights, the environment, or other causes. A series of short biographies explains the motivations and accomplishments of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (the inventor of American Sign Language), Aung San Suu Kyi (an activist for democracy in totalitarian Myanmar), Majora Carter (the founder of an organization dedicated to energy reform and conservation in the South Bronx), and other people who decided not to accept the status quo.
Published on August 08, 2007
Since 2001, Majora Carter’s grassroots organization, Sustainable South Bronx (SSBX), has challenged power plants, sewage-treatment facilities, landfills, diesel-truck fleets, and government officials.
Majora Carter: Environmentalist
Published on May 01, 2007
The Sustainable South Bronx founder beautifies a desolate urban neighborhood and busts stuffy ideas in a new television series.
Published on April 01, 2007
Green and clean used to be scarce commodities in the South Bronx, a New York City neighborhood saddled with 15 waste-transfer stations.
Published on February 13, 2007
Majora Carter wants to keep a jail out of a poor neighborhood—and build a recycling plant instead.
GOOD Magazine
Published on January 30, 2007
Sustainability is all too often the privilege of the already privileged: earth-friendly office towers and hybrid cars don’t come cheap. By that measure, the South Bronx, one of the poorest and most polluted urban areas in the U.S., should be one of the last to embrace environmental stewardship. Thanks to Majora Carter, it might be one of the first.
Published on December 18, 2006
Bringing cleaner air and a bit of nature to a place where it’s really needed
Convene Magazine
Leading By Example: Majora Carter
Published on December 15, 2006
Majora Carter is not your ordinary environmental leader. Don’t let her looks deceive you. She is a force to be reckoned with as she helps “Green the Ghetto.”
Published on September 28, 2006
Majora Carter is no ordinary environmental leader. For starters: She’s a woman, she’s black, and she’s not afraid to publicly challenge Al Gore.
Elle Magazine
Published on May 01, 2006
All her life, Majora Carter wanted to escape from Hunts Point, one of the poorest communities of New York’s South.
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American Public Media – Marketplace
Published on November 14, 2007
Majora Carter on green collar job potential
Published on September 20, 2005
Host Steve Inskeep talks with Majora Carter, one of the newly announced recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships. Carter founded a community organization that researches and develops sustainable projects for South Bronx.
Published on April 14, 2006
City residents are aiming to build an 11-mile network of bikeways and parks in an unexpected place – the South Bronx. And they’re taking as their inspiration from another city you might not immediately think of – Bogota, Colombia. WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein has this report.
WNYC Public Radio
Published on December 10, 2007
Majora Carter joins host Katherine Lanpher to share the music that she just can’t live without. Part of WNYC’s 2007 Must Have Festival.
Published on November 08, 2007
Majora Carter spoke at the Power Shift 2007 conference just outside of Washington, DC at the beginning of November.
Published on October 05, 2005
Installing plants on roofs as a way to save energy and cut down on pollution is gaining momentum across the city. Green roofs have begun to sprout in several New York City neighborhoods. In the South Bronx community activists, researchers and landscape architects are joining forces to try to convince property owners that green roofs will help their bottom line. WNYC’s Cindy Rodriguez recently attended the opening of a green roof on Garrison Avenue.
American Public Media – Speaking of Faith
Published on January 11, 2007
Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they’re still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are transforming the ecology of their immediate worlds in Dunn, Wisconsin and New York’s South Bronx.
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Published on February 3rd, 2010
Ann Thompson reports on our work with urban agri-business development in Detroit and the nation.
Published on September 19th, 2009
Majora founds a new award ceremony in the Bronx recently honored positive images of women and nurtured what organizers called “Uptown Girl Power.” This event was also established at a fund-raising effort to develop large-scale murals depicting positive images of strong, dynamic women throughout the Hunts Point neighborhood and beyond.
Published on June 06, 2008
Majora Carter grew up in the South Bronx. Now she’s back, with a mission: to lead her community out of poverty and fight environmental injustice by bringing green-collar jobs to the area.
Published on June 19, 2008
Reducing Carbon Emissions is the goal, but how do we reach it? Majora Carter believes we do best if we get there by reducing poverty emissions first.
Majora Carter asks why important information about how and where our products are made is not readily available to consumers like nutritional information on packaged food.
TED Talks
Published on June 01, 2006
In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx — and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy.
Aspen Institute
Published on March 27, 2008
In the opening Plenary Session of the 2008 Aspen Institute’s Environment Forum, speakers Majora Carter and Josh Dorfman share “big ideas” about modern society and its relationship to the environment.
Published on June 11, 2008
Majora Carter opens the world of a green-collar economic revolution for the South Bronx and areas like it around the world.
Published on June 19, 2008
Majora Carter compares the efforts to win World War II with what is needed to solve climate crisis today.
Published on June 19, 2008
Majora Carter asks why important information about how and where our products are made is not readily available to consumers like nutritional information on packaged food.
Sundance Channel : THE GREEN
Published on May 14, 2008
Majora Carter, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, talks about her responsibility as an environmental activist.
 Vanity Fair’s “Redesigning the World: A Green Way to the Future” Forum
Published on April 28, 2008
See Tom Brokaw moderate a conversation between innovators Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk, William McDonough, and Majora Carter for Vanity Fair’s “Redesigning the World: A Green Way to the Future” forum.
Published on January 01, 2008
In 2001, Majora Carter created Sustainable South Bronx. By developing local green jobs, she helped reduce poverty, joblessness, and urban pollution in New York City’s poorest borough.
On Point : Environmental and Energy Publishing
Published on October 23, 2007
Does the key to solving America’s poverty and crime issues lie in creating more sustainable, environmentally friendly communities? During today’s OnPoint, Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx discusses the program she created in a low-income New York City community to raise awareness about sustainability.
Published on May 09, 2007
Maria Hinjosa goes Uptown to check out how Majora is attacking public health and global warming concerns.
Eldridge & Co
Published on February 20, 2007
Talk show on issues and politics in New York City, hosted by Ronnie M. Eldridge.
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