TEDxManhattan - Stephen Ritz - Green Bronx Machine - Growing Our Way Into A New Economy
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Uploaded on Jan 30, 2012
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Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator. With the help of extended student and community family they have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 students healthy meals and trains the youngest nationally certified workforce in America. Stephen has consistently moved attendance from 40% to 93% daily, helped fund/create 2,200 youth jobs, captured the US EPA Award for transforming mindsets and landscapes in NYC, recently won the ABC Above and Beyond Award, helped earn his school the first ever Citywide Award of Excellence from the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and attributes these results directly to growing vegetables in school. His speech at Columbia University, "From Crack to Cucumbers," along with the release of a You-Tube Video (Urban Farming NYC) resulted in a national following including an invite to the White House Garden. Dedicated to harvesting hope and cultivating minds, Stephen dreams of opening a nationally replicable Career Technical Education public school in the poorest Congressional District in America rooted in urban agriculture, green and sustainable initiatives. For more information, visit www.greenbronxmachine.com
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Top Comments
iclipshin 1 year ago
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.
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Kristie Finnan 1 year ago
LOVE every bit of this- plan to share this video on my blog and just made your video a favorite on my YT Farmer.
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All Comments (83)
missnyckitty 2 weeks ago
ahhhhh hes friends w majora carter
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schirber kandi 4 weeks ago
Bronx machine??
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Christine Hickey 4 weeks ago
you are precious
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aludolph jack 4 weeks ago
Where's the machine?
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rishkorn lien 1 month ago
Great video!
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tschmoll jessia 1 month ago
So true!!
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nstetzer laine 1 month ago
I like this video.
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golfnut210 1 month ago
This video is great, I enjoyed it so much that it brought tears to my eyes. Because it made me realize there is still hope for you youth and country.
PS - Steve Ritz is great,
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nstephan athena 1 month ago
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
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kleemann becki 1 month ago
Very inspirational.
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