Common Theme Project
Theme and Description

Consuming Well for the Wealth of Communities, from IUPUI to the World

Can we have a conversation about what we want and how we consume? The inaugural Common Theme asks this question and invites IUPUI students, staff and faculty and the broader community to a two-year discussion about the consequences of our consumption and the healthier, greener and more sustainable communities we might build here in Indiana and around the world. [More..]


2010-2011 Common Theme Book

The Common Theme Steering Committee is pleased to announce the campus book for next year:

Colin Beavan, No Impact Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)

For more information: http://us.macmillan.com/noimpactman


Featured Events

Talk Spot

This year's Common Theme book is Colin Beavan's No Impact Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).



September 1, 2010
IUPUI Sustainability and Green Fair
10:00 AM – 01:00 PM
UC – Taylor Hall Courtyard
815 W. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Celebrate the IUPUI Common Theme and Go Green! IUPUI’s second annual Sustainability and Green Fair is a collaboration of green suppliers, organizations, speakers, workshops and events that will encourage you to think about sustainability on and off campus.

Stay tuned to this calendar for more Common Theme events next academic year as IUPUI continues to discuss "Consuming Well for the Wealth of Communities from IUPUI to the World."


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