Posts Tagged ‘Greening the Ghetto’
Greening the Ghetto: Street Art
I have made it my business to use the green economy as a social and economic solution to poverty. I want to Green the Ghetto. Majora Carter Back in February we began writing about Greening the Ghetto here in our own neighborhood in Juarez. Sure, it is a daunting prospect, but we are continuing to dream [...]
Posted in hope, Life in JuárezTags: Ciudad Juárez, Greening the Ghetto, Jorge Hernandez, street art, The Desert, Violence in Juárez
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color
The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]
Posted in Art, hope, Life in JuárezTags: Border Explorer, Border-blog, Bruce Berman, Ciudad Juárez, Greening the Ghetto, Matt and Misty Lindsey, The Desert
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August 25th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey