The Sustainable Square Mile - A Walk-to-Work, Walk-to-Shop, Walk-to-Learn, Walk-to-Play Village

Not since the heroic rise of America’s Civil Rights movement has there been a need like today for organizing, resourcing, inspiring, and sustaining a movement at the intersection of economics, environment, and equity. Now we must also solve our pernicious increase in racial health and wealth disparities. Blending all-important heritage traditions with environmental science and modern economics, Blacks in Green has piloted its Sustainable Square Mile theory of change in the typical underserved urban community of Historic West Woodlawn in the Obama Presidential District of Chicago’s south side, inviting national collaboration to scale and replicate its work building local living economies in energy, horticulture, housing, tourism, and waste.