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Post Carbon Fellow Erika Allen was honoured, for her work with Growing Power, as one of the new generation of people who are "altering the green landscape".

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Since launching the Chicago branch in 2002, she's helped make one-time "food deserts" bloom, launching community gardens and bringing fresh food to economically devastated neighborhoods. Growing Power also employs inner-city teens to run a model veggie garden in Chicago's lake-side Grant Park, where they harvest 50 varieties of heirloom vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers in the shadow of skyscrapers.

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