Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben
Sunday, 18 Feb 2007 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Bill McKibben is a former staff writer for the New Yorker. He is a well-known environmental writer whose books include The End of Nature; Hope, Human and Wild; Maybe One; Hundred Dollar Holiday; The Age of Missing Information, and his most recent, Wandering Home: A Long Walk through America's Most Hopeful Landscape. He is a frequent contributor to Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, Outside, and the New York Times. As the keynote speaker for the Third Annual Symposium for Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination, McKibben offers a challenge to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better." He puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. For McKibben, our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value. Part of "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," the Third Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination.Cosponsored By:
- Ames Collegiate United Methodist Church
- Bioethics Program
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Creative Writing Program
- EEOB Department
- English Department
- Environmental Studies Program
- Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Department
- Iowa Arts Council
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Religious Studies Program
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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