2009-2010 Book
To support this year's Common theme, IUPUI is reading:
Bill McKibben's Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Holt, 2007)
One of America's most important writers on business, culture, and the environment, McKibben is the author of many books. His most recent, Deep Economy, asks these fundamental questions: Is more better? What is the economy for? What makes for human happiness? His earlier book The End of Nature first brought global warming to general audiences.
View New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's blog on McKibben's new social movement
Join us when Bill McKibben visits Indianapolis this fall.
Both events are open to the public free of charge:
Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
Bill McKibben Keynote
4:30-5:45 pm
IUPUI Campus Center, CE450
420 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, 46202
Book Signing to Follow
Part of the 2009 Spirit and Place Civic Festival
An IUPUI 40th Anniversary Fund Event
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
Bill McKibben Panel
"Can Local Food Feed Indiana and the World?"
10:30-11:45 am
Indiana State Museum, Dean and Barbara White Auditorium
Sponsored by the Indiana State Museum
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"
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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.
Bill McKibben, "Pursuing Prosperity and Local Sustainability"
Monday, Nov. 9,
CE – Campus Center Room: 450
