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..]
Feb. 11, 2010,
Filmmaker Chris Paine at the IMA
Tickets required; students FREE
5:30-7:10 pm, screen "Who Killed the Electric Car"
7:30-8:40 pm, hear Chris Paine lecture
Indianapolis Museum of Art's Planet-Indy Series
The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Rd
Feb. 12, 2010
12-1:30 pm, CA438
Conversation with Chris Paine
Come hear the filmmaker of Who Killed the Electric Car discuss social
activism, sustainability, good design.
Feb. 16, 2010
6-8:30 pm, CE405
"The Garden": Film and Panel
Feb. 25, 2010
4-5 pm, CE405
The Intersections of Public Health and Community Design
Kim Irwin, Executive Director, Health by Design
Feb. 26, 2010
8 am - 4 pm,
Service Oriented Leadership Expo: Leaving Your Organizational Footprint
For student leaders interested in sustainability and other community issues.
Registration required: rso.iupui.edu
Feb. 26, 2010
7:30 pm, IU Auditorium, IU-Bloomington
Michael Pollan Keynote Address
FREE tickets available starting Feb. 1, 10 am
March 6, 2010
7:30 am - 2:30 pm
Food for Thought -- Local Food. Global Impact
IUPUI Deans' Day Symposium
Registration required
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.
Have you read your pages this week?
Pp. 95-99, 121 – “The Church and the Individual”
Five Minutes of reading, hours of conversation!
Latest Blog Entry
We have created “hyper-individualism,” an environment in which we have become isolated from our communities and neighbors by our need to be self-sufficient and, in the eyes of the world, successful and happy. In the process we have “surrendered a fixed identity” our sense of connectivity to community, our relationship to deep roots. Recent studies have shown that true happiness lies not in what we accumulate or achieve over the course of our lives but rather in the experiences we collect that connect us to our fellow human beings.
