Majora Carter's determination to "make her community more livable, greener and healthier than it is today" landed her a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005. She was drawn into a battle over construction of a facility that would have processed 40 percent of New York City's garbage. Her success in fighting the plan, and in establishing the first waterfront park in the South Bronx in more than 60 years, eventually led to the founding of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization dedicated to the greening of the Hunts Point community. In 2008 Carter left the organization to form the Majora Carter Group, an environmental-consulting firm.