We’ve been meeting since September of 2007. We meet every month, on the first Tuesday of the month, at 6pm, at the homes of various members, and everyone contributes a dish or drink, preferably local and/or organic.

We have focused on local food, organic, global economy issues, and agricultural issues. We select books that will give us ideas on how we can be better to the earth, how we can make wiser choices, etc. It’s a sustainability / social responsibility / local community book club that hopes to educate this area on how we can all leave a better and lighter footprint on this earth. So far, we have read:

• Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

• The New Village Green by Stephen Morris

• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

• The Geography of Nowhere by Howard Kuentzler

• A Year without "Made in China": One Family's True Life In The Global Economy by Sara Bengiorni

• Deep Economy by Bill McKibben

• Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall

• Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

We have considered reading a huge list of books, including:

• In Defense of Food and Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan

• Deep Economy by Bill McKibben

• Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall

• The Future of Life by EO Wilson

• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough

• Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

• Silent Spring

• Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Paul Nabhan's 2002 memoir  

• This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow, Columbia University nutritionist, her 2001 memoir

• Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromartz

• The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, selected and introduced by Barry Lopez

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

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