Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter was interviewed in Ebony about her social enterprise work.

From the interview:

EBONY: Do you see this work you’ve done and that you’re doing now as being on a continuum?

MC: Yes. For me, it’s about reducing brain drain. Gentrification happens long before people see it. It happens when we tell our brightest and hardest working young people to measure their success by how far away they get from their communities. We hemorrhage all our income generating potential, and that keeps communities in an economically downward cycle.

People talk about the economic development potential in attracting the “creative class.” I believe we need to keep and build on our own creative class.