Majora Carter - Greening the Ghetto

This awesome TED Talk synthesizes some of the ecological, political, and socioeconomic factors that perpetuate widespread health problems among those living in urban ghettos across the United States (and elsewhere). Majora Carter is an environmental activist from the South Bronx and major proponent for environmental justice, which she explains "goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other."