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Fiction Addiction’s business book club met tonight to discuss Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World by Diane MacEachern (Avery, paperback, $17.95).

We unanimously agreed that it is a wonderful resource for anyone — whether an individual or a small business — trying to become more environmentally friendly.

For those such as myself who are just starting out, this hefty (432 pages) tome can seem a little intimidating. But the author takes a very realistic approach — suggesting that you adopt just one or two practices at a time until your budget and habits adapt. She gives personal examples of the choices she and her family have made. For example, in the realm of personal care and beauty she decided that her first organic purchases would be for products that stayed on her body the longest, such as makeup and deodorant.

The more eco-advanced members of the book group were already following many of Diane’s suggestions, but the book contained enough new ideas and suggestions that everyone felt it a worthy purchase.

For May, the club will be reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.

Fiction Addiction’s business book club is open to the public and meets on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm at Thai Top Restaurant in our shopping center. Those who purchase the club pick from us during the month we are reading it will receive a 15% discount off the list price.