BIG: Blacks in Green

BIG: Blacks in Green
Naomi Davis CAF/file
BIG: Blacks in Green
Naomi Davis CAF/file

BIG: Blacks in Green

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Blacks in Green (BIG) is an environmental organization whose vision is to create “self-sustaining African diaspora communities” and foster black participation in the new green economy. Founder Naomi Davis presents BIG’s core teaching, Oasis-Making, which defines the sustainability challenge of African American communities, and discusses the organization’s green economic development solution.

Recorded Friday, April 24, 2009 at Chicago Architecture Foundation.