Film: The Economics of Happiness March 3, 2011

"Going local" is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world - our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. This eagerly awaited film tells the story of a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. Featuring

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Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, Samdhong Rinpoche. The suggested donation amount is $10 but no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

Sponsored by: Transition Town Ypsilanti, WCC Permaculture Club, Michigan Young Farmers Coalition, EMU's Giving Garden, and SE Michigan Stewardship Coalition.