King's dream tied to environmental stewardship
MEMPHIS — Surrounded by memories of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a group met to create ideas to blend his economic equality vision with the environment. The Dream Reborn Conference opened Friday at the Memphis Cook Convention Center to develop plans to attack poverty through green endeavors.
MEMPHIS — Surrounded by memories of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a group met to create ideas to blend his economic equality vision with the environment.
The Dream Reborn Conference opened Friday at the Memphis Cook Convention Center to develop plans to attack poverty through green endeavors.
Van Jones, founder of Green for All, the conference's sponsor, said this would have been a goal of King's if he hadn't been assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago.
Jones, a native of Jackson and a 1990 graduate of the University of Tennessee Martin, is a 1993 graduate of Yale Law School and the co-founder and director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in California.
Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, said environmental justice is civil rights in the 21st century.
Her agency creates "green" development in New York and was one of several organizations that is participating in the three-day conference.
