Eco-Libris News

May 1, 2008: Beacon Broadside - A Tree Grows For Shirley

Kelly McMasters, the author of Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, which was recently released by PublicAffairs writes a guest post on the green side of the publication's process, including her collaboration with Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

April 30, 2008: MTV Switch Blog- Eco-Libris: Buy A Book, Plant A Tree

Eco-Libris offers a unique way to offset a booklover’s carbon footprint. Simply choose how many books you want to balance out with Eco-Libris, pay for it online, and a tree will be planted for each of these books.

For the full article please click HERE

April 28, 2008: ecochick - Eco-Libris and Raincoast Books are planting trees!

Eco-Libris, the sustainable reading initiative you've already seen on ecochick, and Raincoast Books, a Canadian book company based in Vancouver, BC, have a great initiative going through til the end of April.

For the full article please click HERE

April 24, 2008: BookTour Blog - Chatting with: Eylon Israely at Eco-Libris

Every so often here on the blog, we'll be chatting with like-minded folk who are doing interesting things at the intersection of books, publishing and technology. Our first guest is Elyon Israely, the Business Ambassador of Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

April 16, 2008: Creative Loafing Tampa - 100 ways to go green right now

No. 5: Eco-Libris balances your deforesting ways by planting trees in developing countries with your financial help. In Tampa Bay, Eco-Libris is partnered with Inkwood Books, where $1 will get you a new tree in a distant land.

For the full article please click HERE

April 15, 2008: Quill & Quire - Raincoast partners with Eco-Libris for joint environmental campaign

Raincoast Books is partnering with American company Eco-Libris for a joint environmentally-friendly initiative dubbed “Buy a Book, Plant a Tree.”

For the full article please click HERE (a membership is required to read Q&Q articles)

April 14, 2008: CenterNetworks - Startup Review: WhatYah, Skewz, ReplayGamez, EcoLibris, Shiftboard

It is great that today there is a much larger focus on the environment and there are many efforts to take action and try to help balance the negative effects that have been made. Eco-Libris allows you to help balance out the negative effects you contribute to when you buy books.

For the full article please click HERE

April 3, 2008: chicagotribune.com - GREEN BUZZ: The latest trends

Let's face it, if you're a true "Greeny" you are probably also a book nerd. Afterall, you have to do your homework first in order to comply with all of the rules right?

For the full article please click HERE

April 2, 2008: Green Spirited - Literate AND green? Say no more.

I’m a reader, always have been…love me a good book. Color me a bookworm. I’m also a book recycler – I trade ‘em, donate ‘em, sell ‘em or just keep ‘em forever and ever. But Eco-Libris goes one step further.

For the full article please click HERE

March 22 , 2008: Treevolution - Book lovers can green up their act

Every year about 20-million trees are cut down to produce the virgin paper for books sold in the United States alone, according to eco-entrepreneur Raz Godelnik. This is a sobering thought for those of us who can’t leave a bookshop empty-handed.

For the full article please click HERE

March 20 , 2008: The New York Observer - Green Day: March 20, 2008

Meanwhile, The Strand is one of the New York bookstores participating in the Eco-Libris project, whereby book buyers can purchase a sticker that gets put on their book

For the full article please click HERE

March 20, 2008: Golden Gate [X]Press - Going book for book

In December 2007 the SFSU Bookstore formed a partnership with Eco-Libris, a company determined to bring sustainability to the book industry.

For the full article please click HERE

March 20 , 2008: GroovyGreen - Eco-Libris, Plant a Tree for Every Book You Read

According to the Eco-Libris 20 million trees for virgin paper used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone. That’s a lot of trees… In an effort to help you pay back Mother Nature, Eco-Libris will plant a tree for each book you decide to ‘balance out’.

For the full article please click HERE

March 17 , 2008: Jacket Copy : Los Angeles Times - Going green, bookishly

If you collect books, you've probably noticed that they're made of paper, and that paper comes from trees. Raz Godelnik noticed -- he thinks green (not Irish, eco-ish) -- and he wanted to balance his books with new trees. So he started the website Eco-Libris; there, anyone can donate money to plant trees to offset book purchases.

For the full article please click HERE

March 14 , 2008: Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists - Phenix & Phenix interviews Raz Godelnik, Co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris is a great green business dedicated to making the publishing industry more environmentally friendly. They are proponents of "sustainable reading" and their mission is perhaps best summed up by their tag line: "Every book you read was once a tree.

For the full article please click HERE

March 4 , 2008: Webupon - Five Sites Where You Can Make a Difference

Webupon brings you a list of five sites where you can make a difference in someone's life. One of them is Eco-Libris.

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March 3, 2008: Life Goggles - Eco-Libris Joins With Bookmooch

We previously featured Eco-Libris on Life Goggles with an interview with Raz Godelnik. They’ve now teamed up with BookMooch a leading book-swapping site.

For the full article please click HERE

February 25, 2008: Manhattan Users Guide (MUG) - Eco-Libris

Two NY institutions, the Strand, 828 Bway [12th] 212.473.1452, and Hue-Man Bookstore and Cafe, 2319 Fred Doug Blvd [124th/125th] 212.665.7400, the country's largest African-American bookstore, are the city's first bookstores to join up with Eco-Libris. We applaud their commitment.

For the full article please click HERE

February 20, 2008: Ecorazzi - Hey NY! Wanna Hang Out With Ed Begley Jr. Tonight?

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February 20, 2008: The Publishing Curve - Rated E for Excellent!

The Publishing Curve receives the Excellent Blog Award and awards it to 10 more blogs, including Eco-Libris blog.

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February 19, 2008: Environmental Leader - Strand Bookstore Joins Eco-Libris’ Tree Planting Program

New York’s Strand bookstore has teamed up with Eco-Libris allowing customers to pay to plant a tree to “balance out” books they purchased in the store.

For the full article please click HERE

February 14, 2008: ecofabulous - Booksmarts

Sure, being a bookworm comes with the obvious benefits, being well-read and interesting, but let's not forget about the trees while we dissect Proust, shall we?

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February 5, 2008: Campus Entrepreneurship - Green Startup: Plant a Tree When You Buy a Book

Eco-Libris, a new venture (h/t CoolBusinessIdeas.com & TriplePundit.com) with a green/social component to it is an interesting new for profit, social venture. The company provides book buyers the opportunity to purchase trees for planting each time they purchase a books. This is what they call sustainable reading.

For the full article please click HERE

January 28, 2008: The Alternative Consumer - Eco-Libris and BookMooch Partner to Bring You Green Reading

Readers can log on to bookmooch.com and exchange used books for free, through a unique points system. Eco-Libris, at ecolibris.net, on the other hand, is a green org whereby publishers, writers, bookstores, and other organizations can balance out the paper they use in printing books, by planting trees.

For the full article please click HERE

January 25, 2008: Triple Pundit - Plant A Tree Every Time You Buy A Book: Ecolibris Shows You How

I admit it. I have an amazon addiction. As a researcher and reporter, I'm committed to buying books. I try to buy used when I can, but sometimes I break down and buy new. I wish I had the option to buy the books I want on recycled paper, but unfortunately, that's not always offered. But now I can buy a planted tree for every book I buy with Ecolibris.

For the full article please click HERE

January 21, 2008: Eco Warrior - Eco-Libris

Yesterday one of my residents dropped a leaflet under my door for a great organization called Eco-Libris which aims to replace the trees used to make books. This morning on bookmooch I noticed that they had a blog post about it too!

For the full article please click HERE

January 16, 2008: TreeHugger - Eco-Libris and BookMooch Partner Up: Plant a Tree, Mooch a Book

Separately, TreeHugger likes both Eco-Libris and BookMooch; what's not to like about two organizations that encourage reading, plant trees, and help you get new books without having to buy them? In a move that might represent the cosmic aligning of the planets, the two have partnered up (which really makes sense!), making reading, tree-planting and book-swapping easier than ever.

For the full article please click HERE

January 14, 2008: EcoStreet - 5 Ways for bookwarms to Save trees

Tracy Stokes of EcoStreet writes on five ideas for the bookworms who can’t give up their book habit, but want to save trees all the same. Eco-Libris is one of these ideas: Offset your books! As far as I know these guys are one of a kind, and the only people you can turn to to plant replacement trees for any new books that you decide to buy.

For the full article please click HERE

January 10, 2008: BookMooch blog - Plant a tree for each book

John Buckman of Bookmooch is announcing the on collaboration between Bookmooch and Eco-Libris, where BookMooch members can earn points by planting trees with Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

January 8, 2008: The Book of Life- Empowerment for the New Year

Heidi Estrin, who hosts The Book of Life podcast published a podcast named 'Empowerment for the New Year' that offers themes of empowerment, including an interview with Raz Godelnik on Eco-Libris, sustainable reading and how eco-conscious readers can go green.

For the full article please click HERE

December 21, 2007: GoodyBlog - Good Deed Friday: Read Books, Plant Trees

We can't stress enough how important it is to read to your kids. But at the same time, it hurts our heart a little bit to think of all the poor trees that give their lives for our love of reading. So now there's a way to ease your conscience. Check out Eco-Libris, a website that will help you "plant one tree for every book you read. "

For the full article please click HERE

December 17, 2007: Planet Green - Plant a Tree with Every Book You Read

Books are always popular gifts this time of year, and we like the idea of giving the gift of knowledge, but it remains that books are printed on paper, and paper comes (mostly) from trees. In fact, 20 million trees are felled every year to create virgin paper used for book production here in the United States alone. So, while the holidays are a great time to give knowledge in the form of books, they're also a great time to spread the word about Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

December 12, 2007: What if No One's Watching - Gifts that give

Eco-Libris: Eco-Libris is an organization from whom you buy credits to plant trees to offset the books you read (like carbon credit purchasing). A good gift for a book geek? For the holidays, they have packages of a holiday card and 5 book credits for $6.50, 10 for $12.00, 25 for $25.00, and up.

For the full article please click HERE

December 11, 2007: Crunchy Domestic Goddess- The (mostly) Green Girly Gift Guide and Giveaways

What if there was a way to have a tree planted for every book you read? Now there is with Eco-Libris. “Every book you read was once a tree. Now you can plant a tree for every book you read” with Eco-Libris. Give an Eco-Libris gift certificate to the people you care about, with which they will be able to plant trees for the books they read.

For the full article please click HERE

December 10, 2007: Murderati - A book for a tree: An interview with Eco-Libris co-founder Raz Godelnik

I don't know about you, but I happen to like oxygen. Breathing has been pretty good to me. I also adore books -- reading and writing 'em. But there's a problem. For each book printed, somewhere a tree was felled. Raz Godelnik and his crew of inspired ecopreneurs have come up with a plan that, in a way, addresses this fundamental dilemma.

For the full article please click HERE

December 6, 2007: PBriscoe - Review: Eco-Libris

Just under three months ago, one of my Friday Footprint posts was about a company called Eco-Libris. You can read more about them in the previous post, but basically they are a company that offers to help you offset your book purchases by planting trees in developing countries.

For the full article please click HERE

December 4, 2007: lit*chick - It's Not Easy Reading Green

For a while now, I have been trying to figure out how my love of paper crafts (scrapbooking) and the printed word (books & magazines) fits into the recycling/green movement. I don't like to scrapbook digitally (I admire you if you can do it) - I love playing with paper and putting my hands on it.

For the full article please click HERE

December 3, 2007: ecochick - Eco-Libris

Books, books, books. ecochick is addicted to books. They're entertaining, they're stimulating, they're portable! They're also made of paper which, more often than not, is made from virgin forest. This is not so good. Eco-Libris wants to do something about this.

For the full article please click HERE

December 3 , 2007: The Tree-Huggin' Copywriter - Tired of Forests Paying for Your Reading Habits? Here's a solution

As the holiday shopping season begins, I'm going to step away from the topic of green copywriting and Internet marketing for just a moment. You see, my friends and I struggle with an environmentally-devastating addiction....We're book fiends. Reading addicts. Info-junkies.

For the full article please click HERE

November 24, 2007: The Hip and Zen Pen - Another green gift guide

While I may advocate for being a savvy seasonal shopper, I must confess that I haven't really started this year...due mostly the double-time-sucks of running a start-up and planning a wedding. However, I can certainly do my part and continue to point you to hip & zen style gift lists. Like the book gift guide over at Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

November 22, 2007: Life Goggles - Feel Better Buying New Books With Eco-Libris (Plus A Special Discount For Readers)

Buying new books is always a joy for me, I love them. In recent years I’ve been better and been buying more and more from charity shops, off eBay and Green Metropolis. However they’re still printed on new paper - very few are printed on recycled material.

Raz Godelnik has recognised this and wants to do something about it. His new company Eco-Libris lets you balance out buying a new book by paying online and getting a tree planted for each book - and a sticker to prove it.

For the full article please click HERE

November 22, 2007: Literary Kicks- Talking Green Publishing with Raz Godelnik

Eco-Libris is a company created to help the book publishing industry adopt more environmentally aware practices. Activities include tree plantings in collaboration with organizations like RIPPLE Africa in countries like Malawi (shown in photo). I recently got a chance to ask the company's CEO, Raz Godelnik, a few questions.

For the full article please click HERE

November 20, 2007: Green Daily - Eco-Libris

Twenty million trees are cut down annually for books in the U.S. Eco-Libris lets you buy "tree offsets" for the books that you purchase. All you do is go to Eco-Libris, select how many books you want to offset, pay online and a tree will be planted for each of your books.

For the full article please click HERE

November 19, 2007: GalleyCat - Planting Trees to Offset Ken Follett's New Fortune

For Eco-Libris, the selection of The Pillars of the Earth for Oprah Winfrey's book club isn't just a great opportunity to honor Ken Follett, it's "an opportunity to discuss the urgent need in sustainable reading, which does not harm the environment."

For the full article please click HERE

November 12, 2007: BookBuds - Read a book. Plant a tree. Open a heart

Seth naturally liked the alternative gift of planting trees in deforested parts of the world, but then I got an email from a group with a similar idea. Eco-Libris will plant a tree for every book you read: you can buy 10 trees for $10, and you get 10 of these nifty stickers to place on your books.

Stickers and kids and books and charity - I'm sensing a winner here.

For the full article please click HERE

November 12, 2007: teensygreen - Buy a Book, Save a Tree

As a huge book worm and former book publicist, I can honestly say that books are my life and always will be. The problem is lately, besides not being remotely close to a normal bookstore, I have felt a bit, well, guilty, about buying books. Notebooks, paper, you can find beautiful things in recycled form, but books published with post-consumer paper is tough.

For the full article please click HERE

November 8, 2007: carbon neutral journal - reading offsets

Want to help get the message out? Here's an idea: if you're going to be buying books for gifts this holiday season, balance out the purchases with Eco-Libris and put the stickers on your gifts.

For the full article please click HERE

November 8, 2007: tree hugging family - Read for the Planet

Eco-Libris is this very neat website that’s promoting eco-savvy by means of reading and books. Their goal is a world where books and reading does not have a detrimental affect on the planet.

For the full article please click HERE

November 6, 2007: Chekhov's Mistress - Who Pays for Your Books? Mother Earth

Today I found a new form of offsets: Eco-Libris. The money line from their Website is that 20 million trees are cut down every year for our books in the U.S. alone. They offer you the opportunity to plant one tree for every book you buy at a cost of only $1 per tree.

For the full article please click HERE

November 6, 2007: Hippy Green - Save a Tree with Eco-Libris

I love hearing about these types of companies who are thinking outside the box and taking action to fight for something they care about. I know I am tired of buying books and then just putting them on the shelve hardly ever reading them again.

For the full article please click HERE

November 5, 2007: Wow! Women on Writing - Connecting with Eco-Libris

Today, we welcome Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris. The last time we introduced the company was during the summer with our Going Green blog. But we have a lot more to learn about Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

October 26, 2007: The Goode Life - Eco-Libris

I am a total book-aholic and basically turn every room in my house into a library. I once had to get a storage locker just to house all my books! I will even admit not all books I buy I read, some are just pretty so to look at - so I feel deep in my gut Eco-libris was created just for me!

For the full article please click HERE

October 26, 2007: The Goode Life - Eco-Libris

I am a total book-aholic and basically turn every room in my house into a library. I once had to get a storage locker just to house all my books! I will even admit not all books I buy I read, some are just pretty so to look at - so I feel deep in my gut Eco-libris was created just for me!

For the full article please click HERE

October 21, 2007: Israel21c - Israeli initiative - Plant a tree for every book

Hundreds of thousands of new books are published every year and, despite attempts to take the book into the digital age, readers still want to turn real pages. It's the environment that suffers, with the loss of the millions of trees that are cut down to make the paper - 20 million trees for books published every year in the United States alone.

For the full article please click HERE

October 15, 2007: A Writer's Words, A Publisher's Eye - Blog Action Day: Publishing and the Environment

You can make a positive impact on the environment without giving up any of the pleasures of reading. Look for books printed on recycled paper, patronize companies that use technology to avoid waste, read e-books, contribute to Eco-Libris, trade books with friends, or read books from the library.

For the full article please click HERE

October 15, 2007: Mommy Talks, Wife Stories, Girl Speak - Today is Blog Action Day!

Well, today is Blog Action Day, and we are supposed to flood the internet with blog posts about the environment, how important it is, and what we CAN do to save what is left of it! I have chose to highlight the organization Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

October 15, 2007: Makeup Minute - Plant A Tree With Every Makeup Book Read With Eco-Libris

If you or someone you know is an avid book reader of beauty and makeup books or even just books in general, Eco-Libris is a fabulous green company founded so you can have a tree planted for each book you read.

For the full article please click HERE

October 8, 2007: Upper Fort Stewart - Sustainable Reading with Eco-Libris

As if I wasn’t anxious enough about my reading habits: Did you know about 20 million trees are being cut down a year to produce books—just for the U.S.? I didn’t. To be honest, it never even crossed my mind. Thankfully, I’ve got Eco-Libris to set me straight. Ian Stewart interviews Raz Godelnik on Eco-Libris and sustainable reading.

For the full article please click HERE

September 27, 2007: Unplugged Living - Eco-Libris Makes Way for Greener Reading

Read on if you’re a booklover.You see, if you love books and you also love the environment, it is not a secret anymore that you’re going to deal with contradictions. Printing out a book means having to cut down trees to make paper. However, there seems to be a way around it.

For the full article please click HERE

September 27, 2007: Green Options - Offsetting your Reading Habit

In an age of conspicuous consumption, one thing I don’t feel guilty about is buying books. I love books. I love having a house full of books. And yes, I know: books are made of paper. Paper comes from trees, and I love trees, too. Live ones. So what’s an eco-conscious reader to do when the library and secondhand books can’t help you out? Eco-Libris thinks it has the answer.

For the full article please click HERE

September 25, 2007: GlamSpirit - Read a book, Plant a tree

There’s a neat website that helps reverse the cycle of destruction by planting trees on our behalf. Just click over to Eco-Libris and decide how many books you’d like to balance.

For the full article please click HERE

September 25, 2007: everydaytrash.com - Trashtastic Tuesday with Raz Godelnik

This week on Trashtastic Tuesday, we check in with Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris, a green business encouraging readers to off-set the paper consumed by their book-buying by donating money to plant trees in developing countries.

For the full article please click HERE

September 21, 2007: GoodHousekeeping - Save by Renting College Textbooks

And here's a nice touch: according to textbookflix.com, an average student purchases an entire tree per year in text books, so to help make a difference, they've partnered with Eco-Libris to plant a tree for every textbook rental. (You can read all about this on their website.)

For the full article please click HERE

September 16, 2007: Nonchalant Mom - Eco-Libris!

Do you ever wonder when you are sitting there reading your books to your kids, hhmmm this paper looks more than white...yes, it is usually new, un-recycled paper! each year about 20 million trees are cut down for the production of books in just the US alone! BUT let's not complain because you can do something about it, that's where eco-libris comes in.

For the full article please click HERE

September 7, 2007: Alternative Consumer - Eco-Libris: Read a Book, Grow a Tree

Ever wonder about the paper consumption involved in manufacturing books? It’s staggering. “About 20 million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper used for the production of books sold in the US alone,” according to ECO-LIBRIS co-founder, Raz Godelink.

For the full article please click HERE

September 3, 2007: 9 to 5 Poet - Read Books & Save Trees

When I look around my house, I see hundreds of books -- and therefore hundreds of trees that have been chopped down to print those books. Honestly, I've never thought of the environmental impact of my book buying addiction. I like books and I like the ideas that they transmit. This site opened my eyes to another aspect of my environmental impact on the world, and it isn't pretty.

For the full article, please click HERE

August 20, 2007: WOW! Women on Writing Blog - Going Green

...But today's post I reserved for a new company. Have you heard of the new way to "go green" with regard to books?

For the full article please click HERE

August 17, 2007: Environmental Graffiti: Don't buy books, Chegg them

US website Chegg.com provides a revolutionary online textbook rental service, offering over two million used books and 800,000 new book titles for students to rent, rather than buy. Now they have announced the launch of a new program - “Chegg for Trees” that will ensure that a tree is planted in a needy area every time a textbook is rented via the Textbookflix.com service. Chegg is delivering this program in partnership with the newly founded Eco-Libris.

For the full article please click HERE

August 8, 2007: Spiral Visions Blog - Eco-Libris: A means to balance out the paper in your books by planting trees

Eco-Libris is an organization that is promoting books being made with recycled paper. They are also suggesting you balance one book by planting a tree. This is a simple equation. One Book = One Tree.

For the full article please click HERE

August 6, 2007: About.com: Literature: Conemporary - Greening the Bookshelves

The mission of Eco-Libris is to offset that impact by easily and affordably (about $1 per tree, I think) empowering readers to plant a tree for every book they read.

For the full article please click HERE

August 2, 2007: Net Impact August Leading Business Newsletter - Member profile: Raz Godelnik - A Green Balancing Act

Net Impact member and social/eco entrepreneur Raz Godelnik envisions a world where books equal green, though his vision is not limited to the “green” publishers associate with the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

As co-founder of Eco-Libris, Godelnik encourages book readers to balance their books by planting trees in the deforested regions of developing countries.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 31, 2007: Treehugger.com - Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris wants American readers to put something back for all their bookworm pleasures. It's encouraging them to donate a dollar for each book they read, so trees can be planted to offset all the paper consumed.

For the full article please click HERE

July 30, 2007: A Fresh Squeeze: Eco-tainment

Most of us have been guilty of it at some point or another: scanning our friends' libraries trying to find out what they’re really like. But tracks and titles alone won’t tell you how green they might be.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 24, 2007: seattlepi.com - Eco-Libris: A Green Light in a Dark Sky

If nothing else Eco-Libris needs to be applauded for their commitment to the environment and their willingness to bring this Achilles heel of the publishing world to the fore-front. But is this the right way to go about it? I raised a few of my concerns with Raz Godelnik, the C.E.O. of Eco-Libris.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 21, 2007: Times Online - Hot type

It can only be time before a UK website emulates the US Eco-Libris in soothing the consciences of book owners. Eco-Libris offers to “balance out the paper used for books”.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 20, 2007: United Nations Environmental Programme - News from the campaign

The Billion Tree Campaign of the United Nations Environmental Programme has published Eco-Libris news release. The news release can be found on the ‘news from the campaign’ page.

For the full news release, please click Here

July 20, 2007: Move - Celebrate The New Harry Potter Book By Planting A Tree

At 12:01 AM Saturday morning, the final book in the Harry Potter saga, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” will go on sale in bookstores around the world. The first printing of the book numbers a record-breaking 12 million copies here in the U.S. alone.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 18, 2007: Quill and Quire - Plant a tree

If your environmental consciousness has been awakened to the point that you get an uneasy feeling as you sit in the shade of some grand tree reading a book printed on what you are now keenly aware is the remains of one of that tree’s brethren,

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July 17, 2007: Kids Lit - Green Wizard Movement

Eco-Libris, a wonderful program where you can balance out the books you read by planting a tree, is offering a way to offset your purchase of the new Harry Potter.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 16, 2007: BiblioAddict – Feeling Guilty?

Feeling guilty for all the books that you buy made of dead trees? Yeah, me neither. Well, I do when I think about it, which admittedly, isn’t very often. I mean, come on. Books are so pretty. But then so are trees…

For the full article, please click HERE

July 11, 2007 : GroovyGreen - Eco-Libris: Offset Your Book With A Tree

Something I consistently stress is that offsets should be a last-resort solution — with tangible green acts coming first that show immediate benefits. With the launch of Eco-Libris, however, I’m excited to see a direct relationship between the act of offsetting and the planting of trees in developed countries.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 10, 2007: Daytona Beach News - $1 added to book purchase will go to plant a tree

With an entire industry amassing to combat global warming, everything you do is under a solar-powered microscope. Driving your gas hog, drinking water bottled in France, bathing too much . . . these are well-known no-nos. Here comes a new one: Buying books.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 5, 2007: Madeejits - Eco-Libris - Moving Towards Sustainable Reading

It certainly is affordable, costing only $1 per book to plant a tree and for convenience these ‘offsets’ are sold in batches of 5. For each book you balance out, Eco-Libris will send you a sticker (itself made from recycled paper) to put on your book cover, ‘displaying your commitment to sustainability and perhaps even inspiring others to become more responsible about their use of natural resources.’

For the full article, please click HERE

July 3, 2007: The Good Human- Read A Book And Plant A Tree

Feeling guilty about buying the latest bestseller from the bookstore? Can’t find that book used so you have to buy it new? If you always give some serious thought as to how your books were made and wish you could do something about it, you might want to check out Eco-Libris.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 3, 2007: Green LA girl - Plant a tree for the new book you bought

For a buck a book, Eco-libris gives you a “One Tree Planted for this Book” recycled paper sticker and plants a replacement for the tree that made your book.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 3, 2007: newconsumer.com - Go full circle and offset your book with Eco-Libris

Reading as we know it is here to stay but you can offset your books with new company Eco-Libris.

For the full article, please click HERE

July 2, 2007: Victoria E - Trees and Books Learn to Love Each Other

I was recently honored with the opportunity to speak with both Eco-Libris CEO, Raz Godelnik, and Head of Business Development, Eylon Israely. Read on to find out more about Eco-Libris, how they are helping to change the world of books, and how three unique non-profits factor in to their business plan.

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July 2, 2007: Environmental Graffiti - Sustainable Books

An exciting, new green company has started up in the last couple of weeks to cater for the eco-conscious book lover. Eco-libris plants trees on behalf of customers, offsetting the environmental damage created by the book itself.

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July 2, 2007: EcoStreet - Balance your books for the planet

Eco-Libris has partnered with Sustainable Harvest International, Ripple Africa and The Alliance for International Reforestation, to plant trees to replace those cut down to print the books that you read.

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