Majora Carter : 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Majora Carter·TEDxMidwest
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
Summary
3 stories that the speaker chose this time had the same point that was to solve a problem. It’s tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings wealth generation and national security. It’s necessary to have entrepreneurship because amounts of philanthropic dollars were spent on social problems for a long time, though, an improvement was a little but many things became worse.

A city had a plan of building a jail, however, it cost high, spending a person to jail was also high but many people in jail before, went back into prison again. A woman in jail before, thought about building not a jail but a system that is employment and education for not going back to it again. 1)

The next city had problems that are lacking water, though, heavy rain and urban heat island but money was used for those individually. A man thought about creating a cool city by green naturally absorbing storm water. Electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down and not using air-condition leads people to being healthy. 2)

Another city changed destroyed a coal-mining town to having a clean wind energy town. It takes a lot of time, though, avoiding mountaintop removal, producing payback forever. 3)

Those must be new cities that reducing costs but creating employment and solving social problems.
Not only some people get benefits, not only philanthropic dollars are used but working together, embracing lands, power systems, and people, and repairing them also. Building cities that have hope and possibility.