{"id":564561,"date":"2010-04-22T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-anita-maltbia-green-impact-zone-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:06:25","slug":"anita-maltbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/564561","title":{"rendered":"Anita Maltbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n<p>\n.series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;}\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Art: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natdamm.com\" >Nat Damm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAnita Maltbia<\/p>\n<p>Director, Green Impact Zone<br \/> Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Anita Maltbia is spearheading the transformation of 150 square blocks of Kansas City, Mo., from blight to bright. The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenimpactzone.org\/\" id=\"goyq\" title=\"Green Impact Zone\">Green Impact Zone<\/a>&nbsp;project,<br \/>\nwhich she directs, is resuscitating this economically depressed<br \/>\nAfrican-American neighborhood by putting local residents to work<br \/>\nweatherizing the zone&#8217;s 2,500 homes and by developing a bus<br \/>\nrapid-transit system that will connect the zone to other parts of the<br \/>\nregion. With&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/kansascity.bizjournals.com\/kansascity\/stories\/2010\/02\/15\/daily24.html\" id=\"t-s2\" title=\"$50 million in funding\">$50 million in funding<\/a>&nbsp;from<br \/>\nthe federal economic-stimulus package, the initiative will also offer<br \/>\ncommunity policing, job training, and health and wellness programs.<br \/>\nMaltbia, who has 30 years of experience in city government and<br \/>\ncommunity activism, earned a coveted spot in the First Lady&#8217;s box at<br \/>\nthis year&#8217;s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/earthday40\">more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-valerie-martinez-green-jobs-coalition-earth-day-40-people\"><strong>Next &raquo;<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-11-how-to-make-cities-more-foot-friendly\/\">How to make cities more foot-friendly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-04-energy-transportation-and-land-use-patterns\/\">Green cars do not make green cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-26-green-tea-party-closes-out-u.s.-earth-day-celebrations\/\">&#8216;Green tea party&#8217; closes out U.S. Earth Day celebrations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=029e2ebd42c1be485f2acb91da639463&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=029e2ebd42c1be485f2acb91da639463&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29804.rss.News.18590,cat.News.rss\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist .series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;} Art: Nat Damm Anita Maltbia Director, Green Impact Zone Kansas City, Mo. Anita Maltbia is spearheading the transformation of 150 square blocks of Kansas City, Mo., from blight to bright. The&nbsp;Green Impact Zone&nbsp;project, which she directs, is resuscitating this economically depressed African-American neighborhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}