TEDxManhattan - Stephen Ritz - Green Bronx Machine - Growing Our Way Into A New Economy

[tragicabbot]

Awesome - we need more people like Steve to share their passion with kids at risk.

[Bliss875]

Incredible, funny and totally honest. Stephen & Lizette Ritz are Eco Super Heroes doing amazingly GREAT work with the South Bronx community.

[SusanSpectrum]

Stephen - I want you to be a guest on Good and Green Radio! YOU are such an inspiration & the work you are doing is sooooo Good and Green; inspiring everyone to live a Positively Sustainable Lifestyle. Please contact me on Good and Green Radio on Facebook.

[DobbyTheRawElf]

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!! Watching this made me so happy. BRAVO!

[Bongosmania]

THIS IS THE WAY to fight Drugs, Crime, Jail, Domestic violence, Health, Reunite families again, show Love, but most of all; To hElp sAve our ONLY plaNet! Way to go Bronx! SI SE PUEDE :-)

[MrGonb]

Talk About Tuned-IN Tapped-In, Turned-ON

Blessed Be and within such great LOVE.

Thank you Steve and your beautiful kids

for your Living JOY!

[linagee]

If you tried to grow stuff on a wall like this at home, the cops would shut you down because they think you have a meth lab going. Guilty until proven innocent! Welcome to America!

[linagee]

Urban farms are the silliest thing I've ever seen. That land is way to expensive to waste like that. You could bus the kids to a real farm outside the city a few times a year and save on costs! Rent that land out as a $500/mo parking spot or whatever crazy high prices city people are willing to pay.

[ajcarpy2005]

@linagee I see your point but don't you think it's nice to have green spaces and stuff within the industrial and residential areas in the cities and towns? I think that you have a point about cost but still...it's worth it to have nice looking cities?

[Hyperkeys]

Awesome. I never foist stuff on people. I am sending the URL for this . . .

[MrManhattankid]

Awesome! This should be the model for all of the United States schools! Lets get our citizens off of junk processed food and eating yummy produce!

[bookmarkthis]

welcome everyone, to the future. urban permaculture.

[JennyNatural]

Stephen Ritz ROCKS!! AMAZING!! Although I do not know any of the kids involved in the projects, I feel tremendously proud of each and every one of them!! BRAVO!

[HenkPoley]

Interesting technology, these "green walls".

[WhiteStarWoman]

THIS MAN WILL TAKE US INTO THE 2012 TRANSFORMATION!!!!!!

[EdridCruzTv]

Esta Muy Bieen I Love It Mr Ritz

[czvasser]

Absolutely wonderful program run by an incredible guy in the BRONX!

[Biotechture]

Learn how to do Aquaponics farming and produce more food then you can eat.

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We build Earthships too.

[gutzbramah]

Did he say he has patented his food wall? Don't patent it! Share it!!! I want to know how to do this!! Don't stifle this by patenting! Go for a resource based economy. Google it. We don't need money, we need food and resources. Change the world, change the mindset. The 'business' is people!

[mogodstuff]

More than a teacher with heart and a good idea.... Absolutely INSPIRING! I want to see this program grow... I would love to run with it in Houston.

[DietitianDiva]

LOVE every bit of this- plan to share this video on my blog and just made your video a favorite on my YT Farmer.

[1949sds]

Amazing!! My daughter runs the school lunch program in their small western Colorado community and has managed to get most of the processed crap out of their diets. Still a long way to go but now she's networking and finding funding for their school's unused greenhouse to get it back up and running and adding an aquaponic section. The kids will be the workforce and will be part of their science curriculum and it will lower the produce budget for the school -- it's a win-win for everyone!!

[iclipshin]

Absolutely incredible. We are fighting to save school garden funding in our rural northern California community and I will share this video, and Stephen Ritz's vision and energy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for caring and making change happen.

[Meatpieandtatters]

LOVE IT!

[SonOfNye]

This guy knows how to draw you in with enthusiasm.

[friendsofbrookpark]

Thanks. Free the Land!

[clodoaldoaraujo1]

we need people like you man...to create a much better world...thanks...I wanna do in Brazil.

thanks Clodoaldo Araujo.

[abc123icuucme]

I'm from the Bronx, thank you.