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I'd be interested. Though it would seem like this would be better off as a monthly thing since it takes a while to read...

Interested, and second the "monthly" (or even bi-monthly) idea.

Book suggestion: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

Oops
I didn't mean to imply that we'd be reading the entire book in a week (I'm much too slow for that). I think we'd read the book over the course of a month or two but maybe have small comment-based discussions once a week or once every other week.

Should have phrased that one better!

Thanks for the interest and consider Omnivore's Dilemma on the list.

I think this is a great idea...I've been wanting to read more and this would give me some direction and motivation!

I'm in. I've been meaning to read that Pollan book for ages.

I'm in, as I'm two-thirds through the Omnivore's Dilemma right now. A great choice for a book club, especially since it's now available in paperback.

I'm in. I just read Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. I'd be up for Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

I would be into this but I really have very little interest with regards to Pollan -- I've read enough criticisms to know I'd be in that boat -- but I'd be into the rest of the suggestions.

I'm in. I think this is a fabulous idea!

I like the idea, though it will be a struggle to read just one book a month, much less weekly.

I have had Cadillac Desert on my to read list since it was originally published. This will give me the kick in the butt i need to actually read it. Yipes, I have been moving it around with me for how many years?

I'm in in general --definitely for Cadillac Desert -- but reserve the right to be temporarily "out" if I know a book is going to motivate me to nitpick every detail and just plain be annoying to know.

jesse and wende - Naysayers and skeptics make book clubs interesting! There's nothing more boring than a bunch of people cooing, "Ooh what a great book, the author's a genius, blah blah blah." If you hate the book so much you don't want to finish it, we'll understand, but I'm sure you'll have a lot to contribute to the discussion of books you didn't like.

I second waterreflecting's suggestion of Plenty!

I would love to participate in a book club, and I would like to second the suggestion of The Omnivore's Dilemma.

I too would love to participate - and I "third" The Omnivore's Dilemma. Let's do it!

I wrote the original review of Cadillac Desert and I must say it is FASCINATING but it took me a while to get through. Couple months at least. However, a lot of the chapters stand alone pretty well, and if anyone would just like to cherry pick a couple chapters I could give some recommendations.

Also, it's less "nitpicky" on a local level, and more a story-driven account of the entire history of the Western United States, told through water.

I think this is a great idea and would also be up for discussing Omnivore's Dilemma and/or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle--I've already read both, and have Plenty on my hold list at the library.

This is an awesome idea and if I were not in the middle of a doc program I would definitely participate. I hope this goes well and I can participate in 3-5 years :-)

I'm in! Cadillac Desert first, please--it's been on my shelf for too long and I really want to read it!

Another title I'm intrigued by is The Empty Ocean. There are only a handful of reviews on Amazon of it, so I wonder if it's very well read. Anyone know anything about it?

I suggest 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' by Michael Pollan. Great food read and sort of goes along with Kingsolver and the Plenty book by Smith and Mackinnon.

Also, anything by Bill McKibben and/or Naomi Klein. Hmmm...now I'm going from green to purely political.

Oops, Omnivore's Dilemma has already been suggested. How about anything by Joel Salatin. He was the 'grass' farmer featured in Omnivore's Dilemma.

I would be interested and I agree with monthly.

i love it. my real-life book club just discussed "animal, vegetable, miracle" at our last meeting. it made for a really interesting discussion and one our least off-topic discussions to date - probably b/c we were all so interested in the book. i was also able to bring up "the omnivore's dilemma" (as mentioned by everybody else!) b/c i just finished reading that few months ago.

it's not coffee or wine, but we do potluck lunches. this past meeting, we each made a dish made with local food. (still not sure how to translate that idea to the at book club though!)

This sounds fun. I've already read Omnivore's Dilemma and Cradle to Cradle-both great. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is on my list, as is Everything I Want to do is Illegal by Joel Saletan (mentioned above), The World Without Us, and one called Organic, Inc.
There's also oldies but goodies, like Fast Food Nation and Silent Spring.

This sounds like a great idea. Goes right along with my book group readings. Let's do it - monthly.

I would recommend Victor Papanek's (early!) text on green design issues, _Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change_.

there's so many more books to recommend, but since this is a green design site--plus i feel this book is a neglected classic.

It's also fun to read b/c Papanek is a bit of a curmudgeon, in a good way.