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..]
Propose a Book for 2010-2011
The Common Theme Steering Committee seeks recommendations for a campus book
for the second year of the current theme: Consuming Well for the Wealth of
Communities, from IUPUI to the World.
The campus book must meet the following criteria:
- No more than 300 pages in length
- Engaging from the beginning for all levels -- students, faculty, and staff
- Has not been made into a movie
- The author is living and makes campus presentations
Please send your recommendations by Dec. 15, 2009 to: davcraig@iupui.edu
Dec. 1, 2009
Fall Deadline for Common Green Contest
All IUPUI students and staff are invited to help make IUPUI more sustainable
Dec. 3, 2009
Playing God: Genetic Modification and the Future of Food
6:00-7:30 pm
Lilly Auditorium, University Library
Dec. 10, 2009
Competition Policy in Health Care in an Era of Reform
3:00-5:00 pm
University Place Conference Center Room 216
Experts will examine the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption and
its impact on community health.
The IUPUI Common Theme Project would like to express a sincere thanks to all of our sponsors and supporters including students, staff and faculty that made Bill McKibben’s visit to IUPUI such a big success. Please join us as we continue the conversation on Consuming well for the Wealth of Communities from IUPUI to the world and our continued exploration of McKibben’s Deep Economy.
This year's Common Theme book is Bill McKibben's Deep Economy (Holt, 2007). Follow the Talk Spot blog every week to learn what others are saying about the book. Read the highlighted pages each week and join the discussion.
Win some green by helping IUPUI go green!
The deadline for the fall Common Green Contest is quickly approaching.
Have you read your pages this week?
Pp. 162 - 172: "Direct Democracy"
Five Minutes of reading, hours of conversation!
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Since happiness has increased with income in the past, we assumed it would do so in the future. However, it is a fallacy. McKibben's aim in Deep Economy is relatively modest. It is to change minds, to present a new mental model of the possible. He suggests more progress toward local economies. His analysis of localization for food, radio, and energy, can be applied to almost any commodity. If we start thinking a little differently we can do the same for our democracy.
