Bill McKibben: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future FREE April 4, 2007

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Bill McKibben
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
In conversation with
Tom Curwen, editor and writer, Los Angeles Times
Join us for a discussion of a powerful and provocative manifesto by the bestselling author of The End of Nature, an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.
Co-presented with the Institute of the Environment at UCLA

Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

The program is co-presented with the Institute of the Environment at UCLA.
The Institute of the Environment (IoE) is an innovative and vibrant intellectual community focused on the Environment. Its members and constituents represent every area of specialty that touches the environment, encompassing a broad array of academic disciplines, research interests, policy concerns and outreach avenues. All have one common passion: How to unite to bring about positive, sustainable change to preserve our complex and interdependent world for generations to come.

Thomas Curwen is an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked as the editor of the Times' Outdoors section, and from 1996 to 2002, he was the deputy editor of the Book Review. His work as a feature writer has been honored by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, and in 2002 he was a recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California, where he was honored by the Academy of American Poets.

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