VIRTUAL EVENT: Overcoming the "Greenlash" – A Transatlantic Discussion
Globally, a rise of "greenlash" – a movement encouraging residents to believe that the promotion of policies and practices to support the green-economy transformation is detrimental to rural, industrial, and extractive region residents and their ways of life – is on the rise. Members of the Transforming the Industrial Heartlands Initiative along with local and regional leaders and practitioners of economic change from rural or industrial heartlands and transforming economies in the U.S., U.K., and Germany will discuss that rise, and offer, in contrast, the economic transformation and growth their regions and countries have experienced. This discussion will center on the approach, tactics and strategies developed by community and regional leaders who are successfully organizing around green and great transformation efforts as a broadly supported and winning economic and community development strategy.
Location: Zoom Webinar / JES Facebook Live
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 30 at 11 a.m. EST
Admission: FREE
The Industrial Heartlands Transformation Initiative is a transatlantic collaborative partnership dedicated towards closing geographic economic divides and reconnecting residents of rural and former industrial heartland communities to economic opportunity. The initiative works to return community pride and optimism about the future, and diminish the appeal of polarizing, resentment-driven, isolationist and ethnonationalist political movements that threaten our democracies.
The initiative, its learning exchanges, convenings, events, study tours, presentations, publications, and other learning products, are conducted with partners including the Brookings Institution; the Georgetown University BMW Center for German and European Studies; the Jefferson Educational Society; the Ruhrkonferenz of North-Rhine Westphalia; Policy Manchester at the University of Manchester, U.K.; the University Allianz Ruhr; the German Consulate General in Chicago; the University of Michigan; the European Commission Directorate of Regional and Urban Policy; and the Committee of the Regions of the European Union, among others.
