Rid-All Green Partnership
Urban Development Strategy
Green n’ the Ghetto
Rid-All Focus
• Growing Healthy Food
• Growing Communities
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
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
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)
Rid-All Green Partnership
Rid-All
Exterminating
Corporation
Neighborhood
Leadership
Institute
“Green in the
Ghetto”
Rid-All Green
Partnership
Environmental
Health
Watch
Deconstruction
and
Healthy Food
PolicyBridge
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
Will Allen – A National Icon
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
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
Coming Soon…
• Brink City Comic Book
• Green Daycare Center
• Green n’ the Ghetto Apparel
• Rid-All Youth Camp
• And More….
Thank you for your time!!