If you were at the YERT event last Wednesday, you may remember Mark Dixon telling everyone to read Lester Brown's World on the Edge. Well, if you needed a group of people to help you accomplish a solitary activity like reading (or want to discuss such things), here's your chance. I've designated WotE as the next ESW-National book, so over the next 8 weeks Amy and I will be working through it and tossing up questions both on their forums and on here. Feel free to do the same - there are not a whole lot of policy/environmental/sustainability/techie/social justice issues this book doesn't touch on, so if you're curious about what people think, Ask. If there's a flurry of activity on both forums, I'll be both ecstatic and running around figuring out how to integrate the two.

Access:
You can get the book on Amazon.com for a physical copy (or get it through Borders and keep a physical bookstore in business). It's not yet available at Carnegie Library. You can also download the whole thing for free at http://www.earth-policy.org/books/wote.

Cheers!

Rough timeline by week (Week 1 is Jan. 31 - Feb. 4):

Chapter 1 (Intro)

Chapters 2-4 (Crashing Natural Systems)

Chapters 5-7 (Crashing Social/Economic Systems)

Chapters 8-9 (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy)

Chapter 10 (Restoring Natural Systems)

Chapter 11 (Stabilizing Geo-political Situations)

Chapter 12 (Feeding Everyone)

Chapter 13 (Conclusion)