Community Connections
The IUPUI Common Theme project seeks to collaborate with communities outside the campus to foster discussion and action on the issues of healthy communities, green economy and just sustainability. This resource is for everyone interested in learning about and contributing to all of the work on these issues happening in Central Indiana already.
To help us make those connections, if you are with a community group, please send us your community events (forums, speakers, conferences, films, art exhibits, etc.), volunteer opportunities and organization profile so we can share how your work connects to the Common Theme initiative. All information should be sent to:comtheme@iupui.edu
Community Events
Neighborhoods: Inspiring Place, Improving Health
Health by Design will host this 2009 Spirit and Place Festival event
Please join coalition partners on the evening of November 12 to explore how Inspiring Places create and sustain vibrant, healthy communities.
Featuring Ethan Kent,
Project for Public Spaces
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Reception: 6:30 - 7 PM
Presentation: 7 - 9 PM
Indiana State Museum
650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46219
This 2009 Spirit & Place Festival event will explore how to create communities that sustain health, inspire happiness,
build social capital, and support economic development.
An exhibit of resident-created photos and maps from Clermont,
Community Heights, and Indianapolis' Far Eastside will be on display.
Eco Film Series:
Free Eco Film: December 4, 2009
Addicted to Plastic
7 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church,
6450 Allisonville Road, Indianapolis
317-317-251-1481
Nov. 6th - Nov 8th, 5p.m
NW Indiana 2nd Annual Living Green Expo
3100 Ivy Tech Dr.,Valpraiso
219-464-2944
www.pcbaonline.com
Organization Profiles
Green Piece Indy: www.greenpieceindy.com/
A local resource and partner for Indianapolis residents that seek to lessen our environmental impact.
Health by Design: www.healthbydesignonline.org/
Mission: To create an environment that promotes physical activity and protects the environment through education, advocacy and action.
Hoosier Environmental Council: www.hecweb.org/
Mission: We aim to address Indiana's environmental challenges through education and advocacy. We are guided by science, inspired by the ties between nature and humanity, and led to success through partnerships.
Improving Kids Environment (IKE): www.ikecoalition.org/
Mission: A non-profit, advocacy coalition that facilitates tangible and significant improvements to children's health through reduction in environmental threats to children.
A companion organization to IKE is Martindale -Brightwood Environmental Justice Collaboration: www.ikecoalition.org/CARE/index.htm
Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center: www.inrc.org/
Mission: To facilitate training and coaching that strengthens the capacity of neighborhood-based organizations and neighbors to mobilize existing assets, support grassroots leadership and foster collaboration.
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful: www.kibi.org/about_kib
Unites people to build community and transform public spaces through aesthetic and environmental improvement.
Slow Food Indy: www.slowfoodindy.com/
Mission: Slow Food Indy promotes central Indiana's food culture with monthly events and volunteer opportunities that focus on good, clean and fair food for everyone.
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
