The Campus Wide Common Reader

Each year, the Roaring Fork Campus, CMC selects a book that we believe will connect faculty, staff and students to each other as well as to the greater world in which we all live. For the 2008 - 2009 Academic Year, we've selected the book Plenty written by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. "When you sit down to a meal, each item on your plate has typically traveled between 1,500 and 2,500 miles. Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon chose to confront this unsettling statistic with an experiment: For one year, they would eat only locally grown and produced food." "A funny, warm, and seductive account of how we might live better - better for the earth, better for the community, better for our bellies!" Bill McKibben

For more information on the book and the 100 mile diet, visit www.100milediet.org.

This is a required text in many courses.

Disciplines participating:

	Reading
	English
	Math
	Philosophy
	Graphic Design
	Outdoor Education
	And many more!

Author's Talk

"Come meet the authors, get your book signed, and hear about their journey of eating locally and thinking globally!"

Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon Date: November 18, 2008 Time: 6:30 PM Location: West Garfield Campus Auditorium Rifle, CO Cost: Students - Free General Public - $5.00 donation appreciated Date: November 19, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Location: New Space Theatre Calaway Building Spring Valley, CMC 3000 CR 114 Glenwood Springs, CO Cost: Students - Free General Public - $5.00 donation appreciated Date: November 20, 2008 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Vail Christian High School Edwards, CO Cost: Students - $5.00 General Public - $10.00