• "How is our nation going to cope with global warming, peak oil, inequality, and a growing sense of isolation? Bill McKibben provides the simple but brilliant answer the economists have missed—we need to create 'depth' through local interdependence and sustainable use of resources. I will be requiring this inspiring book for my students, and passionately recommending it to everyone else I know."

    Juliet Schor
    professor of sociology, Boston College
    author of The Overspent American

RIT Summer Reading Program

WHAT IS THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM?

The summer reading program at RIT provides incoming students across all the colleges at RIT with a common experience. With everyone reading the same book, the RIT community will have a starting point for intellectual discussions and exploration in the Fall. Throughout the year courses, lectures and events will use "Deep Economy" as a basis for projects and discussions. In November Bill McKibben will be here at RIT to speak about "Deep Economy."

WHAT IS "DEEP ECONOMY"?

Published in March of 2007, “DEEP ECONOMY: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future is a powerful and provocative manifesto in which Bill McKibben offers the greatest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, ‘more’ is no longer synonymous with ‘better’—indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites.”

WHO IS BILL MCKIBBEN?

Bill McKibben is the author of twelve books, including The End of Nature and Deep Economy. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and has written for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books.