Green Umbrella’s 2020 Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit explored the theme “Cities of the Future: Becoming a Regenerative Region,” and imagined how cities could become regenerative hubs that enhance rather than deplete our natural resources, promote a vibrant, resilient built environment and support healthy, equitable communities. By examining innovative strategies to link rural, urban and suburban communities, we sough to identify new opportunities to build regions that are both socially and environmentally resilient.
Officially we were set to discuss:
“Indigenizing Colonized Spaces: Building Health and Wealth with Food Sovereignty” Native chefs, farmers and educators are cultivating solutions to food access and diet-based health problems by reclaiming ancestral traditions. Can movements to decolonize diet and food systems apply to diverse cities? Can Native culinary and agricultural education help reaffirm relationship to land and place, health and humanity?
Panelists: Jheri Neri, J. Dawn Knickerbocker, and Shane Creepingbear
Shane Creepingbear from Antioch College and UNC's board member Dawn Knickerbocker presented "Indigenizing Coloninized Spaces" with Green Umbrella --all MC'd by Homer Shadowheart! It was an excellent event that described some of the work we've been doing in our communities, resources, and our vision for the future. We also discussed some of the myths about Indigenous people and our relationship to food and this land.