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Transcript of Blacks in Green Founder / Engagement Package
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BIG: Blacks in Green™ Naomi Davis, President & Founder [email protected] 773-678-9541 Page 1 of 9
NAOMI DAVIS Speaking Engagements
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, mixed-income, 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.
& Green Neighborhood Revival The Intersection of Deep Culture
Attachments Grannynomics & Village Farm
Organizational Overview
Programming Centerpiece
Implementing The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™
BIG: Blacks in Green™
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Summary
Goals. Increase village income one household at a time; advance The Age of Climate Crisis with a
grassroots movement for “surthrival in a city of villages.”
Strategies. Reduce greenhouse gas levels via local living economies by increasing the rate at which
neighbor-owned businesses are created and sustained.
Tactics. The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™
Priorities. Healing-bonding-organizing, asset-mapping, time-banking, skill-building, and creating a
green hub in the ‘hood™ for sustainable business start-ups.
Values. What’s good for the African diaspora is good for everyone; and what’s bad for the African
diaspora is bad for everyone.
Beliefs. Conserve or collapse; help is not on the way; nothing trumps self-help; only a whole-system
solution can transform a whole-system problem.
Philosophy
BIG™ is a network for advancing “green‐village‐building” – its signature initiative. Through its
programs, activities, courses, and enterprises, BIG™ reminds generations of their great cultural legacy
of land stewardship and collaborates to reinvent that legacy here in the Age of Climate Crisis.
Informed and inspired by America's great Underground Railroad story, its system teaches the primacy
of self‐help and the importance of allies across the bounds of race and class. It also teaches the
disproportionate negative impacts of global warming on communities of color and the health/wealth
opportunities of the new green economy ~ with special focus on recreating community wealth by
cultivating the conservation lifestyle, using its old-fashioned practices of Grannynomics™ to teach neighbors
to ‘feel good’ and live ‘the beautiful life’ – beyond the dreaded ‘tipping point’ of 400ppm/ghg.
BIG’s green‐villages are walk‐to‐work, walk‐to‐shop, walk-to-learn, walk-to-play communities anchored
by neighbor‐owned businesses, which become the agents of “jobs‐driven development.” Only
jobs‐driven development stabilizes neighborhoods through the health/wealth enhancement of present
residents, avoiding forced or voluntary neighbor migration to “better” neighborhoods, or the influx of
“better” neighbors – benign or hostile. Resident money stays active locally supporting community
self‐interests, and the heritage of a place is preserved.
Around the world, the case has been made for interdependent local living economies as greenhouse gas
reduction strategies. Such sustainable community initiatives are critically important for black
neighborhoods. Thus, BIG™ has launched a 5-year green‐village‐building proof of concept in the Chicago
TIF District of West Woodlawn, and to fill the void of blacks in green neighborhood revival, Naomi
consults other communities through emerging partnerships within its national network.
BIG™ has partnered with the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race Politics, and Culture to
teach “The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building.” It welcomes the inquiries and participation of other
institutions and individual community activists seeking training in this system in order to lead where
they live.
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Founded 2007
Location Box 378411, Chicago, IL 60637 773-678-9541
Awards Naomi is a Green For All Fellow, and for her work in green community economic
development has received Lt. Governor Pat Quinn’s 2007 Environmental Hero Award,
the 2008 Chicago Magazine Green Award, the 2009 Jewel‐Osco Environmental
Stewardship Prize, the 2010 Ebony Magazine Power100, and in 2011 was selected to
serve on Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s Transition Team for Energy, Environment, and
Public Space, as one of Black United Fund of Illinois Inaugural Flame Award recipients;
and as an international thought leader to present at Groupon Founder’s First Annual
Chicago Ideas Week. As a recipient of the Black United Fund of Illinois Flame Award, in
2012 Naomi was invited to partner in the development of BIG’s Green Economy
Academy™ ~ a matriculation-optional curriculum for students, professionals, and
community members to learn essential future forward skills for employment, enterprise,
and “the beautiful life” ~ the conservation lifestyle.
Products The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™
The 12 Propositions of Grannynomics™
Green Hub in the ‘Hood™
Ol' Time Mississippi Fish Fry + Hip Hop Storytelling Revival...& Radio Show™
Migration: The Musical™
grannynomic development jams™
The BIG Real Estate Institute For Community Controlled Development
Top 10 Issues In The 20th Ward
5 Things Every Black Person Should Know About Sustainable Communities
& The New Green Economy™
Background Naomi was raised in St. Albans, Queens, NYC where she attended PS 15. For junior/high
school she attended The Parkway School in Jamaica Estates and Woodmere Academy
Country Day School on Long Island. As an early entrant and Presidential Scholarship
recipient at Fisk University, Naomi earned a BA in the double-major of Speech/Drama
and English; and from John Marshall Law School of Chicago, earned her Juris Doctor.
Between five years of law practice after graduation and her present career in
environmental economics, Naomi worked in diverse sectors: theater, real estate, and
public affairs and marketing communications. She lives happily with Lena Horne and
Marcus Garvey (her dog and cat) in Chicago’s historic West Woodlawn, location of BIG’s
5-year green-village-building pilot. Her sole sibling, Kamal Shakir lives in York, SC where
he cares for their beloved 92 year old mother, healthy with Alzheimers, while launching
an all-natural, halal chicken processing plant near North Carolina A&T.
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BIG’S 8 PRINCIPLES OF GREEN-VILLAGE-BUILDING™
1. Micro-Saving/Lending, Local Currency/Wealth. Each village has its
own measures, exchanges, and repositories of wealth.
2. Local Energy Production & Transportation. Each village produces its
own energy for heat, light and transportation.
3. Shopping & Waste. Each village supplies all basic goods and services
to neighbors, converting waste to wealth in the process.
4. Affordable Green Homes & Gardens. Each village is sustained
through jobs-driven development without displacement, providing
low-income housing and producing high-quality food through land
trust CDC’s.
5. News & Networks/Stories & Structures. Each village celebrates its past,
present, and future culture through stories in print, digital, and theatrical
forms.
6. Village Centers & Borders: Each village is a walkable, self-sustaining
whole with perceptible borders, inter-dependent local ties, global
context, organized and in action for self-interest.
7. Health, Education & Welfare. Each village fosters life-long learning
through hubs, which are epicenters for green training, development
and lifestyle transformation.
8. Green Jobs & Enterprise. Each village circulates its wealth through
neighbor-owned businesses which invent, invest, manufacture, and
merchandise locally.
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