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Rid-All Green Partnership

Rid-All Green Partnership. Urban Development Strategy Green n’ the Ghetto. Growing Healthy Food. Growing Communities. Rid-All Focus. Rid-All Green Partnership. Evolved in Summer/Fall of 2009

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Rid-All Green Partnership

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  1. Rid-All Green Partnership Urban Development Strategy Green n’ the Ghetto

  2. Growing Healthy Food Growing Communities Rid-All Focus

  3. Rid-All Green Partnership • Evolved in Summer/Fall of 2009 • PolicyBridge’s “Education Pays Get Yours Campaign” led to discussion with Rid-All’s “Shoot Hoops Not Guns” Effort • Cleveland 2019 Sustainability Summit aligned with the “Green in the Ghetto” effort • PolicyBridge released “Rebuilding Blocks” Research Report • Rid-All Corp. meets Will Allen in Youngstown

  4. Rid-All Green Partnership • Damien Forshe – Owner of Rid-All Exterminating Corporation • David Hester – Employee of Rid-All Exterminating and Urban Farmer • Randell McShepard – Chairman and Co-Founder of PolicyBridge • George “Keymah” Durden – Deconstruction Start-Up and Past Proprietor of Vegetarian Soul Food Restaurant • Timothy Lewis – Radio One “Green in the Ghetto” Campaign

  5. Rid-All Green Partnership • Don Slocum and Mark McClain – Neighborhood Leadership Institute • Stuart Greenberg and Kim Foreman – Environmental Health Watch Additional Partners • Carlton Jackson – Tunnel Vision and Local Food 365 • Michael Walden – Clear Lake Farm • Angie Smith – R & B Ranch and Farm (Orville, OH)

  6. Rid-All Green Partnership

  7. Rid-All Green Partnership Visited Growing Power (Will Allen) in December, 2009 Rid-All Began Urban Agriculture Training in January, 2010 Rid-All Completes Urban Agriculture Training in May, 2010 and has been asked to be a Regional Training Provider for Growing Power

  8. Will Allen – A National Icon

  9. The Plan • Launch an Urban Agriculture Training Center in a Local Cleveland Neighborhood • Erect a State of the Art Green House and Hoop Houses • Create Green Jobs for Local Communities

  10. Broader Rid-All Partnership Strategy • Expand Hoop Houses and Urban Agriculture throughout Cleveland and East Cleveland • Expand our Deconstruction Efforts • Promote the “Green in the Ghetto” Education Campaign Covering Urban Farming, Recycling and Environmental Justice • Explore the launch of a Vegetarian Soul Food Restaurant at a Strategic Location

  11. Coming Soon… • Brink City Comic Book • Green Daycare Center • Green n’ the Ghetto Apparel • Rid-All Youth Camp • And More….

  12. Thank you for your time!!

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