The Intersection of Deep Culture & Green Neighborhood Revival
BIG: Blacks in Green™
Implementing The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™
NAOMI DAVIS
Speaking Engagements
Attachments Grannynomics & Village Farm Organizational Overview Programming Centerpiece
BIG: Blacks in Green™
Founder President & Founder Naomi Davis is one of Chicago’s most celebrated environmentalists and a nationally sought speaker and consultant. She is an urban theorist, attorney, activist, and proud granddaughter of Mississippi sharecroppers. Naomi serves as a bridge and catalyst among communities and their stakeholders in the design and development of green, self-sustaining, mixedincome, walkable-villages within black neighborhoods. She is author of The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™ -- a whole-system solution for the whole-system problems common to black communities everywhere – which she presents in lectures, workshops around the country, and has taught at the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Together with its precursor Grannynomics,™ green-village-building offers a culture-specific prescription with universal value, addressing the terrible triplets of pollution, poverty, and plutocracy. Organization BIG™ is a green-village-builder, a national network, one of America’s most diverse eco-orgs, and a thought leader in green community economic development for communities of color…across 13 economic sectors. It promotes local living economies as greenhouse gas reduction strategies through its system green-village-building™ ~ "walk-to-work, walk-to-shop, walk-to-learn, walk-to-play villages" for blighted, colonized, and/or gentrifying black communities. BIG™ says the question of the century is "where is your village?" and it support neighbors in answering the question. It teaches "Chicago As A City Of Villages," and neighbor-owned businesses as the source of community "surthrival." Its system is designed to increase the rate at which neighbor-owned businesses are created and sustained, and its success will be measured by increase in household income of original residents within the walkable village. Entities interested in implementing the model are encouraged to partner.
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