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(The idea was by Jen Richardson ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/2638.html ), who's been happily busy ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/4393.html ) - I do recommend everything else on her blog! All errors and awful puns my fault only.)
I'm trying to take Jen's idea and run with it, making a Dreamwidth community for us to talk about the books in https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html (hence "Deindustrial Reading Ynitiative", that and bad taste on my part), which resemble Jen's list, but are already planned and ordered. We'd go through this DRY reading 1 chapter/month, with a post for each on the community - though, since I don't expect to deal with anywhere as many comments as JMG does in total, the discussions of each chapter on each post needn't end with each month (if there's that much interest!). Assuming interest, I intend to make the first post on April 1st.
SInce the 2nd and 3rd books are fixed, we only need for now to fix the 1st. I intend to arbitrarily pick Eugene P. Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology because I like the author's other books better than Brewer's, which might suggest higher quality of the textbook in question. I do notice that JMG did *not* say we needed to pick 1 of those 2, and I tried to pick an ecology textbook with a digital version available (unlike either of those) - but it appears the good stuff lacks that, so I'm thinking about just going with Odum. Regarding items 7 and 10 on the list, I think the right thing to do would be for each member to pick one such book and review it, but we'll have *plenty* of time to consider that until we get there. (Meaning I think we should converge regarding item 4, but can leave that for even a lot later.)
Interest signals, suggestions, and possibly other stuff welcome in the comments.
(The idea was by Jen Richardson ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/2638.html ), who's been happily busy ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/4393.html ) - I do recommend everything else on her blog! All errors and awful puns my fault only.)
I'm trying to take Jen's idea and run with it, making a Dreamwidth community for us to talk about the books in https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html (hence "Deindustrial Reading Ynitiative", that and bad taste on my part), which resemble Jen's list, but are already planned and ordered. We'd go through this DRY reading 1 chapter/month, with a post for each on the community - though, since I don't expect to deal with anywhere as many comments as JMG does in total, the discussions of each chapter on each post needn't end with each month (if there's that much interest!). Assuming interest, I intend to make the first post on April 1st.
SInce the 2nd and 3rd books are fixed, we only need for now to fix the 1st. I intend to arbitrarily pick Eugene P. Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology because I like the author's other books better than Brewer's, which might suggest higher quality of the textbook in question. I do notice that JMG did *not* say we needed to pick 1 of those 2, and I tried to pick an ecology textbook with a digital version available (unlike either of those) - but it appears the good stuff lacks that, so I'm thinking about just going with Odum. Regarding items 7 and 10 on the list, I think the right thing to do would be for each member to pick one such book and review it, but we'll have *plenty* of time to consider that until we get there. (Meaning I think we should converge regarding item 4, but can leave that for even a lot later.)
Interest signals, suggestions, and possibly other stuff welcome in the comments.
