{"id":1895,"date":"2009-04-02T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:42:38","slug":"an-afternoon-with-majora-carter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"An afternoon with Majora Carter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is days like this when I have to pinch myself for working at such an amazing organization.<\/p>\n<p>Today Vancity helped bring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Majora_Carter\" title=\"Majora Carter\">Majora Carter<\/a> to Vancouver to speak to a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconabia.com\" title=\"Strathcona Business Improvement Association\">The Strathcona Business Improvement Association<\/a>. They are a group dedicated to improving an area of Vancouver that could use some extra care to bounce back, and these business owners are playing an &#8220;important role in the business development, safety, security and street enhancement in Strathcona.&#8221; Part of their focus is to create a green business focus, making the neighbourhood an epicentre of sustainability in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Majora Carter gave a talk about how she helped bring back an area of the South Bronx through environmental renewal. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/majora_carter_greening_the_ghetto\" title=\"Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto\">TED talk<\/a> is an inspiring story of economic injustice and an environmental response to it. Well worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"334\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/MajoraCarter_2006-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/MajoraCarter-2006.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=320&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=53\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is days like this when I have to pinch myself for working at such an amazing organization. Today Vancity helped bring Majora Carter to Vancouver to speak to a group called The Strathcona Business Improvement Association. They are a group dedicated to improving an area of Vancouver that could use some extra care to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5,29,4,16],"tags":[173,172,189,171,182],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-poverty","category-vancity","category-vancouver","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-poverty","tag-vancity","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-uz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}