Blacks in Green - BIG™
Blacks in Green [BIG] is national network born to close America's racial wealth gap via the new green economy - increasing Black household income and increasing community resilience against the harms of climate crisis. Our Sustainable Square Mile™ system implements our 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building™ introduced in 2007 to achieve BIG's theory of change: that only a whole-system solution can transform the whole-system problem common to Black communities everywhere; that ultimately selfsustaining Black communities everywhere would change the narrative of what it means to be Black in America; and that our communities would thereby become synonymous with beauty, prosperity, comfort, and joy.
BIG works to increase the rate at which neighbor-owned businesses are created and sustained; to build the capacity of neighbors to own, develop, and manage the property in their community; and to remember and reinvent the conservation lifestyle ~ where households and homesteads produce their own energy, grow their own food, clean their own water, and recycle their own waste. This reignites our Great Migration tradition of walk-to-work, walk-to-shop, walk-to-learn, walk-to-play villages where African Americans own the businesses, own the land, and live the conservation lifestyle~ the beautiful, do-for-self life!