Common Theme Contests
The Common Theme asks us to be informed, get engaged, and make an impact. It helps to start with what’s close at hand—our own consumption and the university we share. The contests sponsored by the Common Theme this year ask us to draw on what we know. Click on the links for contest guidelines.
The Common Theme Essay Contest invites all undergraduate students to write a short 1,000-word essay on Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy or the focal topics of green economy, healthy communities and
just
sustainability. Add your voice to the conversation about how we consume and what kinds of lives, society and economy we might build together. Deadline: March 31, 2010.
The Common Green Contest invites all IUPUI students and staff to examine how the campus uses resources and generates waste, looking for more sustainable ways to operate the campus.
Sustainability
begins with all of us. It takes imagination to create the infrastructure that can help save resources and money. Win some green by helping IUPUI go green. Deadlines: December 1, 2009 (for fall semester) and April 1, 2010 (for spring semester).
Thanks to the Greening IUPUI Grant Fund and Barnes and Noble for sponsoring the prizes for this year’s contests.
Win some green by helping IUPUI go green!
The deadline for the fall Common Green Contest is quickly approaching.
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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
