July Book Club: Deep Economy
July 29, 2010 · 6:30pm – 9:00pm
We’re reading Deep Economy by Bill McKibben and will have a fascinating discussion about whether more really is better, and how more impacts communities, the environment, and the world. RSVP for the event by emailing Melissa at mblair76@me.com. Hope to see you there!
More about the book: (From Publishers Week)
Challenging the prevailing wisdom that the goal of economies should be unlimited growth, McKibben (The End of Nature) argues that the world doesn’t have enough natural resources to sustain endless economic expansion. For example, if the Chinese owned cars in the same numbers as Americans, there would be 1.1 billion more vehicles on the road—untenable in a world that is rapidly running out of oil and clean [...]