There’s Got to Be a Better Way Seminar Series

Posted by on October 18, 2002

There’s Got to Be a Better Way?

A Seminar Series at the CA

Let’s discover and consciously live out alternatives to living mindlessly in a corporate consumer-oriented culture. These conversation groups will read, study and talk together of various pragmatic, ethical and moral ways of being on this planet together as people of faith and good conscience.

Led by Cheryl Shipman
Each session from 5:15 – 6:30 p.m.

Resisting Consumer Culture-Thursday, October 17
How to want less, buy less and live with less.

Alternative Economics-Thursday, November 14
There are different ways of buying. Learn how to access coops and reduce dependency on a money economy.

Ethical Food Choices for Health, Ecology and Economy-Thursday, January 23
Ethics can be as simple as what we eat. Eating better to change the world.

Utopian Fiction-Thursday, February 20
How can visions of fictional dreamers help us imagine alternative realities?

Intentional Communities-Thursday, March 20
New definitions of family and community can feed our spirit, encourage an economy of resources and promote the general welfare of the planet.

http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~upennca
CA
Where Minds Open and Faith Works
118 South 37th Street (at Sansom)
215-746-6350


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