Green Bronx Machine -- growing our way into a new economy: Stephen Ritz at TEDxManhattan
http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2012talks Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator. With the help of extended student and community family they have ...
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Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo Good afternoon. I am not a farmer. I'm not. I'm a parent, I'm a resident and I'm a teacher and this is my world. And along the way I've started noticing, I'm on my third generation of kids that they're getting bigger. They're getting sicker. In addition to these complexities, I just learned that 70% of the kids that I see who were labeled learning disabled would not have been had they had proper prenatal nutrition. The realities of my community are simple. They look like this. Kids should not have to grow up and look like this, to look at things like this. As jobs continue to leave my community, and energy continues to come in, be exported in, it's no wonder that really some people refer to the ...
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Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo Good afternoon. I am not a farmer. I'm not. I'm a parent, I'm a resident and I'm a teacher and this is my world. And along the way I've started noticing, I'm on my third generation of kids that they're getting bigger. They're getting sicker. In addition to these complexities, I just learned that 70% of the kids that I see who were labeled learning disabled would not have been had they had proper prenatal nutrition. The realities of my community are simple. They look like this. Kids should not have to grow up and look like this, to look at things like this. As jobs continue to leave my community, and energy continues to come in, be exported in, it's no wonder that really some people refer to the ...
