Thanks to a suggestion from a former mayor of Fort Wayne, I read a book by Michelle Moore, Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power. Intrigued, I invited the author to be the keynote speaker at the Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference. She said yes!
Later, I found out that her organization, Groundswell, was holding a conference in Bentonville, Arkansas called The Rural Renaissance Roadshow. I had to go! Bentonville was the place for a couple of remarkable Heartland Summits I attended and the content was in sync with the program I run for the IU Environmental Resilience Institute called the Indiana Resilience Funding Hub, which is focused on rural communities.
