Comments on: Sustainable Cities and Hip Hop: Creating a New Urban Beat http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/ Sustainable Urban Mobility Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:24:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: How Did RespChi Represent on 350 Day of Climate Action? | Manufacturer China http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-9939 How Did RespChi Represent on 350 Day of Climate Action? | Manufacturer China Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:19:50 +0000 http://thecityfix.com/?p=1519#comment-9939 [...] (If you’re interested, check out another post I wrote recently for TheCityFix.com about how hip-hop has changed the face of environmental advocacy: “Sustainable Cities and Hip Hop: Creating a New Urban Beat.“) [...] [...] (If you’re interested, check out another post I wrote recently for TheCityFix.com about how hip-hop has changed the face of environmental advocacy: “Sustainable Cities and Hip Hop: Creating a New Urban Beat.“) [...]

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]]> By: Jim Jones http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-2860 Jim Jones Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:04:05 +0000 http://thecityfix.com/?p=1519#comment-2860 The comic strip is pretty funny and comedic. I wish the words were a little bit easier to read. The comic strip is pretty funny and comedic. I wish the words were a little bit easier to read.

]]> By: Laura Root http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-2152 Laura Root Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:17:52 +0000 http://thecityfix.com/?p=1519#comment-2152 What an interesting and timely post! Van Jones, of the Green Collar Economy and Green for All, is an adviser to Obama. His platform strongly argues for "eco-populism" or in other words that all communities of all ages, ethnicities, economic means, education, and ideologies, need to participate in an American Renaissance( environmental, social, and financial). Hip-hop culture will logically surface as one of the most publicized manifestations of environmentalism of course because it's fresh. Hip Hop culture is poised to become one of the most prevalent actors in the green movement particularly as it pertains to healthier streets as the scraper bike movement in Oakland suggests. Young people have the opportunity to express vast artistic and creative talents, learn skills, implement environmentally friendly mobility solutions, and reclaim their streets. Hip Hop culture isn't about violence, drugs, and gangs, it is primarily about the lives of people in inner cities- which were often abandoned and left for dead in the U.S. Thanks to global urbanization, hip hop culture is a world-wide movement largely uniting youth in cities around the world. In many cases, young people in Paris or Mumbai can more readily identify with members of the hip-hop movement in Los Angeles or New York than they can with certain groups in their home culture. What is surfacing as art or action in this movement is indicative of what many young people worldwide find important. And in that case, we can expect to see an eco-hip-hop renaissance in many cities where young people are reclaiming their streets and beginning to create their vision of what they want to world to become. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE see the video on scraper bikes: http://www.streetfilms.org/ What an interesting and timely post!
Van Jones, of the Green Collar Economy and Green for All, is an adviser to Obama. His platform strongly argues for “eco-populism” or in other words that all communities of all ages, ethnicities, economic means, education, and ideologies, need to participate in an American Renaissance( environmental, social, and financial). Hip-hop culture will logically surface as one of the most publicized manifestations of environmentalism of course because it’s fresh.

Hip Hop culture is poised to become one of the most prevalent actors in the green movement particularly as it pertains to healthier streets as the scraper bike movement in Oakland suggests. Young people have the opportunity to express vast artistic and creative talents, learn skills, implement environmentally friendly mobility solutions, and reclaim their streets.
Hip Hop culture isn’t about violence, drugs, and gangs, it is primarily about the lives of people in inner cities- which were often abandoned and left for dead in the U.S. Thanks to global urbanization, hip hop culture is a world-wide movement largely uniting youth in cities around the world. In many cases, young people in Paris or Mumbai can more readily identify with members of the hip-hop movement in Los Angeles or New York than they can with certain groups in their home culture. What is surfacing as art or action in this movement is indicative of what many young people worldwide find important. And in that case, we can expect to see an eco-hip-hop renaissance in many cities where young people are reclaiming their streets and beginning to create their vision of what they want to world to become.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE

see the video on scraper bikes: http://www.streetfilms.org/

]]> By: racy_rick http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/comment-page-1/#comment-1914 racy_rick Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:44:57 +0000 http://thecityfix.com/?p=1519#comment-1914 Great comic! It will take more than green graphiti and rappers spouting things other than bling and disrespecting women to 'green' up poor people. How about teaching people how to cook with real ingredients. Like baking bread, making tortillas, growing their own food, and removing their dependence from the 7-11 and processed foods. Being 'green' these days just takes saying it. Great comic!

It will take more than green graphiti and rappers spouting things other than bling and disrespecting women to ‘green’ up poor people.

How about teaching people how to cook with real ingredients. Like baking bread, making tortillas, growing their own food, and removing their dependence from the 7-11 and processed foods.

Being ‘green’ these days just takes saying it.

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