Detroit - Building the Green City

A documentary in the works that explores the potential of revitalizing a shrinking city by reclaiming its vacant lands for agricultural development.

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• green
• cities
• ecology
• business
• agriculture
• revolution
• Detroit
• economy
• urban
• farming
• government
• documentary
• city

[bamainatlanta]

Can someone answer this question for me, and please don't take it the wrong way. Have the local people on welfare, or the chronically urban uemployed embraced this? Are the younger African American men seeing this as an opportunity? I am sure that farming still has a stigma, given slavery. Anyone care to share their perspectives? This seems like such a great idea, but I am wondering about how it interacts with several generations of urban blight, and the increase in the Black underclass.

[tokarski21]

@bamainatlanta I think it's not being embraced, and an opportunity is passing by the wayside.

[tokarski21]

Thanks. I'm hoping to get things moving after the new year.

[tokarski21]

Thanks. When things get going I'll be posting segments of the program.

[tokarski21]

Thanks Justin.

[sallymonster34]

Yeah!!!! I'm on board! Hydroponic greenhouses, urban orchards, community cooking classes, rooftop gardens, biomimicry... Detroit will rise again:)

[BlueBerryWizard]

@bamainatlanta Farming is racist now? God damn political correctness has gone way too far. If the niggers don't want to grow their own food it's not up to us to give them foreign AID or welfare or all this other bullshit.

Welfare is dysgenic and promotes lazy useless people and encourages them to multiply resulting in places like Detroit.

Notice that this effort is entirely headed by whites? Niggers are useless apes who won't do anything for themselves.They're had their chances.

[6095jimmy]

This was planned by the government making you think you need them to survive. They are controlling you planned this whole downturn for Detroit using people whom vote them into power by the way to profit and line their own pockets with cash. A green City, the first they say why cause the auto industry is no more. Destroy the city to tear it down build farmers fields offer new jobs and you don't care. They plan your next100 years when you'll be gone think about it whens enough enough allready?????

[datbrayciss]

@BlueBerryWizard Hey Smiley. Brofist.

[kandiRAVER420]

Even if you grow in containers, you might wan to have your soil checked for lead. It can come from peeling paint on any house in your neighborhood built before 1978. I use Avant Environmental, they are cheap and fast.

[BeClaireful]

Yup, it's happening and it's INSPIRATIONAL.

[ladylioness]

@sallymonster34 -- you mean the land will rise again! Detroit was the land before colonization of this land was buried in industry and concrete. Pros and cons, lessons learned and we are still all learning... but the land shall rise again in the place known as "Detroit." Its Anishinaabe Territory or better yet know as Potawatomi Territory.

[greyborzoi]

Looks like a great project!  Would be great if Detroit could reinvent itself somehow...huge music & arts destination...something. Looks like some great architecture going to waste there. Best of luck with the documentary!

[martinakizZz]

i wish greece  and every country was as green as country is!