Common Theme Project

Friends of the Common Theme

We would like to thank these contributors whose financial gifts support the Common Theme.

  • Greening IUPUI Grant Funds
  • Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Institute Program
  • University Place Hotel and Conference Center
  • IUPUI 40th Anniversary Funds
  • IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
  • Indiana State Museum
  • IU Center on Philanthropy

In addition we would like to thank the following:

  • University Library
  • Office of External Affairs
  • Barnes & Noble @ IUPUI Bookstore

This project would not be possible without outstanding support from:

  • Dean of Faculties and Executive Vice Chancellor Uday Sukhatme
  • Dean Scott Evenbeck and University College
  • Vice Chancellor Karen Whitney and the Division of Student Life
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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.


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Bill McKibben, "Pursuing Prosperity and Local Sustainability"
Monday, Nov. 9,
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