The Sustainability Initiative and the Library Media Center are pleased to announce the BC Reads! selection for 2012-2013.
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) is written by one of the greatest environmental writers and activists in the United States, Bill McKibben. In Deep Economy, you will read about how our globalized economy has become addicted to the ideas of limitless economic growth and the endless consumption of goods. As McKibben defines it, a deep economy “cares less about quantity than quality and takes as its goal the production of human satisfaction as much as surplus material.
Deep Economy asserts that what we eat, what we drive, where we live and what we feel are all related to how we use or misuse the earth’s resources. This powerful book will make you think about how you live your life every day and will challenge you to think about how you can make a difference in our world.
Stay tuned for details on availability of Deep Economy at the Library Media Center and a Deep Economy forum in April.
BC Reads! Partners: Library Media Center, Sustainability Initiative, BC Bookstore, WA State Library LSTA Grant
Last Updated December 11, 2013