Majora Carter is a green economic consultant who combines social, economic development, and region wide infrastructure needs into positive feedback systems. She has been a driving force behind some of NYC’s most progressive environmental legislation, as well as cultural acceptance of sustainable practices.

She founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) in 2001, to change that area’s environmental and economic outlook for the better. By 2003, SSBx had launched one of the country’s first and most successful green-collar job training and placement systems. She also wrote a $1.25M Federal Transportation Dept grant to plan and design the South Bronx Greenway - an 11 mile network of storm water management, economic development, congestion alleviation, and healthy living infrastructure.

In 2008, she left the non-profit founded to consult worldwide. She hosts her own nationally broadcast public radio special series, The Promised Land; and also hosts Eco-Heroes on Sundance Channel’s, The Green. Majora currently serves on the National Academies of Science Climate Choices working group, and is on the board of Ceres, SJF, and The Wilderness Society.

She is graduate of Bronx High School of Science, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellow, the first distinguished alumna of her class at Wesleyan University, and holds several honorary PhD’s.

Past Events

• Cool Jobs 2009

  2009 Festival

  Join host Majora Carter to dive into remote caves with microbiologist Hazel Barton, hunt for hidden artistic treasures with Maurizio Seracini, and discover what frogs can tell us about our impact on the environment with biologist Tyrone Hayes.

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• Future Cities Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs

  2008 Festival

  Urban planner Peter Head, architects Blaine Brownell and Mitchell Joachim, environmentalist Majora Carter, and microbiologist Dickson Despommier laid out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.

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