Project Mission
The Common Theme Project promotes campus unity, conversation and collaboration on timely issues that connect IUPUI to central Indiana and the world.
In fall 2009 the campus is inaugurating its first Common Theme. Each year IUPUI will choose one book for the entire campus. Common Themes will change every two years. We encourage everyone at IUPUI and in central Indiana to join us in reading this year's book and participating in the campus and community events to be informed and get engaged.
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"
Latest Blog Entry
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.
Bill McKibben, "Pursuing Prosperity and Local Sustainability"
Monday, Nov. 9,
CE – Campus Center Room: 450
