Canceled August DFA Book Club Meetup - Reschedule September 14

AUGUST MEETING CANCELED.

Rescheduled for September 14, 2009.

What if we localize more of our decisions in society? Sure we are in a vast global economy where fresh fruit all year long is a reality but is it sustainable and could we better ourselves, our neighbors, and our world by making decisions in different more concerned ways?

This environementally minded book looks to examples going on today. What they mean and how they could influence our lives.

Please join us for a more solutions based discussion.

Title: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Author: Bill McKibben

New York Times Review: The author defends his "economics of neighborliness" against the charge that it is "sentimental, nostalgic, some Norman Rockwell old-town-green fantasy." In fact, he insists: "Given the trend lines for phenomena like global warming and oil supply, what's nostalgic and sentimental is to insist that we keep doing what we're doing now simply because it's familiar. The good life of the high-end American suburb is precisely what’s doing us in." His alternative, an intelligent, socially responsible, nonideological localism—essentially a readjustment downward of material expectations and therefore of our "hyperindividualistic" economic metabolisms—"might better provide goods like time and security that we're short of.