Eco-Libris in the News
December 1, 2011: Metro - New York City - Best of 2011
Best bookshop to buy a best-seller and plant a tree that one day you can read under:
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway
212-473-1452
www.strandbooks.com
..Oh, and the Strand has teamed up with Eco-Libris to make sure the circle of life continues: For every dollar you donate with your purchase, a tree will be planted in a developing country.
December 1, 2011: San Francisco Chronicle - E-readers or print books - which is greener?
On the other side of the equation, few e-reader manufacturers disclose the environmental impact of manufacturing and running their devices. Raz Godelnik, co-founder of Eco-Libris ( www.ecolibris.net), which promotes the adoption of green practices in the book industry, says, "Apple is the only company being transparent about their devices (the iPad and iPad2)."
October 7 , 2011: Toner Ginat News - 'Small steps' important in cutting office paper usage
Businesses looking to make their use of printer toner more efficient and cut down on the amount of paper they use may find taking small steps can make a significant difference. Raz Godelnik, co-founder of Ecolibris.net, stated there are always opportunities available for reducing the amount of paper an office uses, such as implementing duplex printing as a standard practice.
August 7 , 2011: Effectivism - how to buy a greener book
Eco-Libris also has an extensive collection of articles and other reference material addressing the environmental impact of e-readers more broadly. While there's no conclusive answer about the relative greenness of e-books vs. paper books, it clearly makes a huge difference how much you read and whether you buy your paper books new or used. July 28, 2011: How to Raise a Reader - How to Be a Tree Hugging Book Lover
That said, the United States book publishing industry is a voracious consumer of trees—some 30 million trees per year, many of them from endangered forests. In light of that jaw-dropping figure, an organization like Eco-Libris was an idea whose time had come. Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris helps readers plant a tree for every book they purchase. In addition, the organization is among those advocating for a greener publishing industry. You can take a page from Eco-Libris’s book with these suggestions for more sustainable reading.
May 25, 2011: Infinity Publishing Blog - Eco-libris highlights Infinity books! "The Last Original Idea"
Many of our authors might not be aware that Infinity Publishing has partnered with Eco-Libris to launch the “100 Tree Project.” With this project, Infinity's authors have the option to make a $50.00 donation to plant 100 trees for each book they publish. In return, Eco-Libris will authorize Infinity to include an official Eco-Libris logo that reads “100 trees planted for this book” on the book cover. This will serve as a reminder of their commitment to improving the environment. April 4 , 2011: Triple Pundit - Why a Green Strategy Will Help Barnes & Noble Avoid Bankruptcy
By Raz Godelnik. This is not the best of times for Barnes & Noble. B&N shares have lost about 50% of their value in the last couple of weeks and it doesn't look like B&N can find a buyer, regardless of the low price. Not surprisingly, there is a growing concern that B&N may eventually follow Borders and file for bankruptcy.
April 3 , 2011: Experts Column - How to Have an Eco Library with EcoLibris
How can you have an eco library and plant a tree for every book you read? You can plant trees easily by eco cycling books at EcoLibris! With green mooching! Book lovers and tree lovers unite!
March 9, 2011: vvb32 - 41 reasons to plant a tree for your book
For 41 days, beginning on March 13 and continuing through April 22 (Earth Day) Eco-Libris will publish on their blog 41 of the best replies received, one reply every day - on why readers believe planting trees for their books is a good idea.
February 25, 2011: Living on Earth (radio show) - How Green are E-Books?
Last year, sales of electronic readers skyrocketed in the U.S. As Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris, tells host Bruce Gellerman, e-readers don't use any paper, but they still have a significant carbon footprint. For some readers, traditional books are the greener option. February 15, 2011: Triple Pundit - Will Ebooks Jeopardize the Carbon Reduction Goals of the Book Industry?
By Raz Godelnik. The shift towards ebooks is having a significant influence on every part of the book industry, from publishers working to reinvent their value proposition to brick and mortar bookstores fighting for their future. But what about the carbon footprint of the book industry? Does this shift represent an opportunity for the industry given the growing number of books sold without even one tree falling down?
February 9, 2011: Alternative Consumer -
Cool Eco Gift Ideas for your Green Girl
now, for the book lover:
Eco-libris has the skinny on a hot topic: which is more planet-friendly e-readers or printed books? If you’re sold on the idea of going digital, we’ve heard good things about the Sony Reader Pocket Edition and sales of Amazon’s Kindle are through the roof. You can compare and pick your fave on amazon.com
December 21 , 2010: Green Penguin - The Bird - Penguin and DK Join Eco-Libris Campaign That Highlights "Green Books"
Penguin and DK have joined Eco-Libris's second Annual Green Books Campaign, which is taking place on November 10, when 200 bloggers will simultaneously publish reviews of 200 books printed on recycled paper or FSC-certified paper... Penguin and DK have put forward a great mix of books (all chosen because they are printed on either recycled or FSC-certified paper) for the campaign.
For the full article please click HERE
December 20 , 2010: Infinity Publishing's Blog - Guest Blog: Eco-Libris' Green Books Campaign
Now to the first and more difficult question – do readers care? I believe they do. People are looking for ways to support the environment and take positive action and book readers are no different. I believe that two steps are required to get readers into action – the first is to provide them with information and educate them about the alternatives available. The second is to find ways to reward them for taking a positive green action.
For the full article please click HERE
November 2010: The Independent - Can Going Green Help Publishers, or Just Planet Earth?
Forecasting the future of books and the book industry seems to be becoming a national sport. All bets are open, but although no one really knows what the future holds for the industry, there's no doubt that changes are happening fast and that publishers who don't adjust to current trends will find themselves in a very unfavorable position.
For the full article please click HERE
November 10, 2010: Publishing Perspectives - Eco-Libris Sets Out to Save the Earth 200 Book Reviews at a Time
Last year on November 11 Eco-Libris asked 100 bloggers to review 100 different books that were printed on recycled paper or paper certified by the foundation-funded Forest Steward Council (http://www.fscus.org/paper/), and post them on their own websites. This year they were at it again and have doubled the number, with 200 bloggers posting their reviews throughout the day. Canada's Indigo Books is this year's primary sponsor..
For the full article please click HERE
November 10, 2010: Chicago Tribue - Eco-Libris' Green Books Campaign
For Eco-Libris, everyday is focused on greening the publishing industry. Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris plants trees to offset paper consumed by the publishing industry. The company, working off the idea of ex-libris bookplate decals, creates small labels (yes, they are printed on recycled paper) to affix to books in order to indicate sufficient trees were planted to balance its printing.
For the full article please click HERE
November 3, 2010: McArthur & Co. blog - McArthur & Company takes part in Green Books Campaign with Eco-Libris
On November 10 at 1:00pm EST, 200 bloggers will simultaneously publish reviews of 200 books printed on eco-friendly paper to raise consumer awareness about considering the environment when making book purchases.. McArthur & Company is proud to participate in this innovative and inspiring campaign.
For the full article please click HERE
October 27, 2010: Leap Books - Going Green
Leap Books has joined the Eco-Libris Green Books Campaign. When you read one of our books, you know it's been printed on FSC-certified paper. And as part of our commitment to being green we've joined this campaign to plants trees to replace those that are used for books. We also will be offering our books as e-books to save even more trees. Watch for our e-titles on Amazon soon..
For the full article please click HERE
October 25, 2010: K'necht-It - Environmentally Friendly Publishing
We participated in Eco-Libris which means that we arranged to have 100 trees planted in honor of the book being published and that it is printed entirely on recycled paper. Given the brevity of our book, unless it becomes an international best seller selling millions of copies; we have planted more trees than will be consumed in the printing of our book.
For the full article please click HERE
August 30, 2010: E-Reads - Greeners Speak Up About Toxic E-Books
Raz Godelnik blogging on the website of the Independent Book Publishers Association asks Is E-Reading Really Greener? We've been asking the same question for far too long and it's good to hear voices other than our own talking about it. Godelnik's is an important one. He's co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris, a company working with publishers, authors, bookstores, and book lovers worldwide to promote green practices in our industry.
For the full article please click HERE
August 15, 2010: OnlineDegrees.Org- Top 100 green blogs for students
15. Eco-Libris - “We started this blog because we wanted to provide book lovers as well as publishers and authors with resources and information on how to make reading more sustainable,” writes Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris. “We also use the blog to promote books that are printed in an environmentally sound manner and explore and new challenges such as how really green e-books are. We hope readers, including college students who are large consumer of books, will become more aware of the environmental issues we explore and discuss on the blog.
For the full article please click HERE
August 10, 2010: GreenBiz.com - Why the Book Publishing Industry Hates the iPad
Though a debate rages about the ease and enjoyment of reading on an LCD screen versus the e-Ink used by Amazon's Kindle and other e-readers, the multi-purpose nature and glamourous design of the iPad -- as well as the ability to read books on it -- make it a potentially deadly weapon for the book-publishing and -selling industries.
So it's perhaps not a surprise that Raz Godelnik, the president and co-founder of Eco-Libris, has come out with an anti-e-book op-ed in the monthly journal of the Independent Book Publishers Association.
For the full article please click HERE
August 2, 2010: mediabistro.com: eBookNewser - Are eReaders Bad For The Environment?
Are eBooks environmentally friendly or are they worse than their print counterparts? Raz Godelnik, co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris, has a new article in the Independent Book Publishers Association's (IBPA) monthly journal called "Is E-Reading Really Greener?" positing this very question.
For the full article please click HERE
June 17 , 2010: The Portland Bottom Line - Raz Godelnik, of Eco-Libris, on crowdsourced books
This is an edited email interview with Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris.
#pdxbl: What’s your take on crowdcreation as a method of publishing?
Raz: Crowdcreation can be best applied to publishing where you have a community sharing certain passion and ideas and also interacting beyond the book project. An example is BlogHer’s first book “Sleep is for the Weak”...
For the full article please click HERE
June 5 , 2010: labellerebelle.com - Green hero you should know: Eco-Libris
Since my last post was about a green way to re-purpose old books, I thought it would be appropriate for this post to be about green books in a completely different context. Eco-Libris is an online company with a really great green vision: enabling people to balance out every book they buy by planting a new tree in its place.
For the full article please click HERE
May 30, 2010: Washington Examiner - Book publishers working to go green
Eco-Libris is on a mission:
In addition to retaining bloggers who review green books and dedicating its time convincing publishers to adopt greener practices, Eco-Libris has partnered with three nonprofit organizations working in developing countries, Central America and Africa, where deforestation is a crucial problem. To offset your book purchases, you can donate money and its partners will plant a tree. Visit ecolibris.net.
For the full article please click HERE
May 5 , 2010: SeymourSimon.com - Green Your Books!
Eco-Libris has come up with a very simple idea to enable those of us who are readers (and therefore big consumers of books) to do something simple and affordable that will have an impact: plant one tree for every book we read. They see it as a way of taking responsibility for the environmental impact of the books we read.
For the full article please click HERE
April 22, 2010: Easy Ways To Go Green - The Eco Libris Program and Independent Publishers Like Write Bloody
Happy Earth Day readers! This is the third year Easy Ways to Go Green has been around to celebrate Earth Day... I am also a writer. Last year, my first collection of short stories was published on a great press out of Long Beach, California. It's called Write Bloody Books. In the past year, Write Bloody, along with many other publishers, joined forces with a very interesting earth-friendly company called Eco Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
April 18, 2010: BlueGranola - Read green
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock on Mars, you know that books are made of paper, and paper comes from trees, and cutting down too many trees is bad for the environment. Now to tell you something you might not already know- there is an organization called Eco-Libris that offers book-readers an interesting way to donate money for the greater greener good
For the full article please click HERE
April 10, 2010: Suite101.com - Reading Books Can Be a Green Choice, a Tree for Every Boo
Read more
Half of the rainforests in Central America have been lost in the last fifty years because of the need for wood and arable land. There are organizations that try to reverse this trend like Sustainable Harvest International and the Alliance for International Reforestation. Ripple Africa focuses its efforts on another continent but with the same objective. These organizations form the group of planting partners of Eco-Libris (Ecolibris.net), an effort to have one tree planted for every book printed.
For the full article please click HERE
April 1, 2010: il Resto del Carlino - Per ogni libro una pianta nel bosco
An article in il Resto del Carlino is an Italian local newspaper based in Bologna, Italy, on the collaboration between ELI Publishing and Eco-Libris (in Italian).
For the full article please click HERE
February 17, 2010: Karen Fynneyfrock's Blog - Write Bloody Works with Eco Libris to Plant Trees
Write Bloody, publisher of my new book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost is working with Eco-Libris to plant a tree for every one of my poetry books sold. If you elect to work with Eco-Libris, you are guaranteed that cute, emo boys will read your books while sitting in forests contemplating their next tatoo designs. Or, at least that is what I assume from their ad campaign. Check it Out!
For the full article please click HERE
February 13, 2010: Bookstore People - Hey Kermit – It Is Easy to be Green
Claire and I work at being green. We both buy our veggies from the same organic service ( ParadiseO , tell them we sent you!) and strive to reduce, re-use and recycle.. We've talked about the used book quandary – they're better for the environment because a book is being reused, but not so good for the author who doesn't get a cut of that transaction. Claire is an author. Eco- Libris provides the answer , buy a tree for every book you read to balance out the paper used to manufacture the book.
For the full article please click HERE
February 13, 2010: The Book Muncher - Green Gift Giveaway
You guys may remember that back in November of last year, I posted a review as part of the Green Books Campaign , sponsered by Eco-Libris. Now, throughout the year of 2010, Eco-Libris is running a new campaign with incentives promoting green reading..
For the full article please click HERE
February 10, 2010: SMS Book Reviews - Eco-Libris Gren Gift Giveaway
Eco-Libris, the website that hosted the Green Books Campaign in November is now holding a giveaway.
Here's what they say: For over two years Eco-Libris has been offering eco-conscious readers the opportunity to balance out their books by planting trees. At the same time the company has worked to promote sustainable reading, and reduce books impact on the environment. Now Eco-Libris is combining the two, with a special giveaway that reward customers with green gifts. For the full article please click HERE
February 9, 2010: Cheryl's Book Nook - Take Action Now and Get Great Green Gifts!
I participated in a great campaign last November. It involved reading and helping to promote green books. Books that are printed with recycled materials. Well Eco-Libris sent me an email that I want to share. You could win these great prizes if you save a tree by purchase green books. You can save trees here and enter to win.
For the full article please click HERE
January 29, 2010: ECO MAMA - Eco-Libris
Are you feeling guilty about the trees that were cut down in order to create the books sitting on your bookshelf? For your donation of just $5, ECO LIBRIS will plant five trees in a developing country. You'll help the environment and the country's local economy.
For the full article please click HERE
December 21, 2009: Booktagger Blog - Four trees planted
Previously I have posted on how to Turn your read books green . Today I stuck some of the stickers I purchased from Eco-Libris onto the new books I purchased for reading over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
For the full article please click HERE
December 14, 2009: The Philippine Star -
Kabbalah partners with Eco-Libris
Kabbalah Publishing invites readers to take action and balance out this and future book purchases with Eco-Libris on www.ecolibris.net/yehudaberg.asp. For every book you balance out, you will receive a sticker made of recycled paper saying, “One tree planted for their book,” which you can display on your book shelves.
For the full article please click HERE
November 16, 2009: Tiny Choices- Greening your Reading
I've mentioned it here and there, but I feel I should state for the record: I am a big reader. Proof: when I was a kid and got into trouble, I was restricted from reading. In contrast, my brother was restricted from watching TV... So of course when I stumbled on Eco Libris , I was interested.
For the full article please click HERE
November 10, 2009: Chicago Tribune's Printers Row - Green books: Eco-Libris' one-day challenge
On Nov. 10, at 1:00 p.m. EST, bloggers from around the US will participate in an online event to support books printed in an environmentally-friendly way by simultaneously publishing reviews of more than 100 such books. The event is organized by Eco-Libris , a company who works to make book printing greener by planting trees to offset printed books.
For the full article please click HERE
November 10, 2009: Publishing Perspectives - Saving the Earth 100 Book Reviews at a Time
Back in the Seal and Crofts 70s , my Sunday School class tucked quarters into cardboard trees to pay for real trees in the deserts of Israel. The simple, seemingly magical idea of Me = Tree captured my Ecology-T-shirt covered heart. So, when I got a request to become a fan of Eco-Libris on Facebook and learned that they would plant a tree if I Fanned them, I felt a familiar zing!
For the full article please click HERE
November 5, 2009: Baltimore Literature Examiner - Green Books Campaign: 1 day, 100 bloggers, 100 green books, 100 reviews
Eco-Libris, a green company dedicated to encouraging the book industry to become more eco-friendly, is hosting the Green Books Campaign to raise awareness of books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 10, when 100 book review bloggers will simultaneously post reviews of 100 green books at 1:00 pm EST.
For the full article please click HERE
October 7, 2009: Manhattan Users Guide - Trees
Every year, 20 million trees are cut down to supply virgin paper for books. That's for the U.S. alone. Eco-Libris is a green business devoted to offsetting that loss. It partners with bookstores across the country so that when you check out, you can pay for a tree to be planted in a developing country – an elegantly green solution.
For the full article please click HERE
September 25, 2009: Going Green @Your Library - EcoLibris: It’s Time for a Green Book
EcoLibris
has a project called It's Time for a Green Book : 1 Day, 100 bloggers, 100 green books, 100 reviews. Their goal is to have at least 100 bloggers, who review books on regular basis, simultaneously publish their book review on Tuesday, November 10 2009.
For the full article please click HERE
September 12, 2009: Read It News - Environmental organizations partner to launch Student Climate Change Solutions Contest
Planet Earth Gets Well, a book which addresses environmental concerns in a child-friendly format, is partnering with Earth Day Network to promote the 2010 Student Climate Change Solutions Contest in schools across the country..Planet Earth Gets Well also partners with Eco-Libris, a green business that works with book readers, publishers, authors, and others in the book industry to balance out the paper used for books by planting trees.
For the full article please click HERE
August 12, 2009: LimeLife - Fix the Book Guilt and Get Eco-Friendly
Do you have book buyer's guilt? A lot of us who are eco-friendly still want to purchase books to line our walls and pass on to people we love, but there's a certain degree of embarrassment that comes with being eco-friendly and still a tree killer. Enter Eco-Libris, for the times you can't find recycled-content books.
For the full article please click HERE
August
3, 2009: Blisstree - Are books giving you guilt?
Books are just crammed full of paper aren’t they.
Sadly, many of us can’t live without them, (self included),
so what’s a tree hugger to do? It is a problem.
For the full article please click HERE
June
30, 2009: Green Reality Check - Paper vs. Pixels: Which is
Greener?
Interesting blog post here, criticizing a brochure from
International Paper about whether it's more eco-friendly to
read in print or on electronic devices. The post is from the
Eco-Libris blog.
For the full article please click HERE
June
22, 2009: Planet Earth Gets Well - Planet Earth Gets Well
& Earth Day Network Launch 2010 Student Climate Change
Solutions Contest
Planet Earth Gets Well, a book which addresses environmental
concerns in a child-friendly format, is partnering with Earth
Day Network to promote the 2010 Student Climate Change Solutions
Contest in schools across the country..Planet Earth Gets Well
also partners with Eco-Libris, a green business that works
with book readers, publishers, authors, and others in the
book industry.
For the full article please click HERE
June
4, 2009: Green Goddess - My Green Haven
I have always been a fanatic about the Library. As a child
I checked out the maximum 6 book allocation each week. A devoted
reader and book lover it was there I was introduced (as mentioned
in my first blog) to the greenest family in the world, the
Ingalls, the modern greenies...Eco-Libris raises awareness
to the environmental impacts of using paper for the production
of books..
For the full article please click HERE
May
27, 2009: Booktagger Blog - Turn your read books green
The phrase reduce, reuse, recycle is not quite fitting for
book lovers, as we may not want to reduce the books we buy.
Often we reuse books by using libraries, borrowing and lending
to friends and family, and purchasing from second-hand bookstores..Why
not plant trees to replace those that are turned into your
volumes? Tonight I visited Eco-Libris..
For the full article please click HERE
April
8, 2009: The Back Cover - Publisher Gives Back
In celebration of Earth Day, children's book publisher Barefoot
Books is planting trees. For every copy of their title "The
Barefoot Book of Earth Tales" sold, they will plant a
tree...This planting program is through Eco-Libris, where
their slogan is "Every book you read was once a tree,
now you can plant a tree for every book you read." The
Eco-Libris website is full of valuable information on the
ecological footprint of books.
For the full article please click HERE
April
1 , 2009: The Alternative Consumer - an altCon eco media minute
As part of NBA Green Week 2009 the Chicago Bulls are promoting
green reading in one of Chicago’s schools and Eco-Libris
is one of the players. Monday, April 6 President’s Obama
favorite basketball team will celebrate the grand opening
of The Green Reading & Technology Corner at Pope John
Paul School in Chicago.
Bulls players will participate in a Reading Time-Out where
they will read an excerpt of “Planet Earth Gets Well”
by Madeline Kaplan, a children’s book that addresses
environmental concerns in a child-friendly format. Kaplan
and The Bulls are collaborating with Eco-Libris to green up
the book by planting trees.
For the full article please click HERE
March
30, 2009: Greenopia - The Guilty Reader: How to Read Green
if You're a Bibliophile
I'm a knowledge dork. I fully admit it. Books, magazines,
newspapers – you name it, I like to read it. Unfortunately,
there’s a drawback to all this info-seeking. Paper –
and lots of it!...To lessen the impact my purchases have,
I offset my books with Eco-Libris. Started last year, Eco-Libris
plants a tree for every book you offset, along with sending
you a nifty sticker to place on your book.
For the full article please click HERE
March
29, 2009: Elizabeth Baines - Eco-Libris collaboration for
my new novel
I'm very excited. Following in the steps of fellow Salt
writer Tania Hershman, I'm joining forces with Eco-Libris
who will plant a tree for every copy printed of my novel Too
Many Magpies which comes from Salt in October. (Tania has
done the same with her great collection of stories The White
Road.
For the full article please click HERE
March
24 , 2009: Ecoki - Eco-Libris provides a way to give back
to the trees
Take a look in your room – chances are, you have a
few books lying around. Now think about the rest of your house.
Are there are few more? Probably...Books are everywhere, but
we don’t really think twice about the (often non-recycled)
materials used to develop them. That’s where Eco-Libris
comes in. Their mission is to spread the word to take part
in their eco-libris goal: to plant one tree for every book
you read.
For the full article please click HERE
March
10 , 2009: Life Googles - 50 Of The Best Green Books For You
Or As Gifts
I wish I could take credit for this one, reading 50 green
books and giving you my recommendations, but I can’t.
That credit has to go to Raz from Eco-Libris. We’ve
written about Eco-Libris before and the good work it does
and even interviewed the co-founder and CEO, Raz Godelnik.
For the full article please click HERE
March
6, 2009: Bookstore People - Green Reading with Eco-Libris
Claire and I work hard to reduce our carbon footprint, although
Claire is better at making everyone take shorter showers in
her house. I’ve reduced our carbon footprint by purchasing
trees to be planted in our local burn areas, and there are
several to choose from. Today, I just balanced out this year’s
reading by purchasing a tree for every book I’ve read
with Eco-Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
March
3 , 2009: Fringe Magazine - Green Your Library
Ever feel guilty about all the dead-trees lying around your
house? You can assuage your conscience at Eco-Libris, by planting
a tree for every book you read at the bargain-basement price
of $5 for 5 trees. Eco-Libris has also been active in pushing
publishers toward environmentally sustainable practices.
For the full article please click HERE
March
1 , 2009: Awareness Magazine - Eco-Libris Offers "Novel"
Approach to
Help Save the Environment
Eco-Libris, an online company, gives book lovers the unique
opportunity to save the environment. Every time you read,
write, publish, or buy a book, you can go online to www.EcoLibris.net
and donate a dollar...In this interview, I am speaking with
Raz Godelnik, who is the CEO and one of the five founding
members of Eco-Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
February
9 , 2009: Little Green Blog - I Can Save the Earth! Sweepstakes
Winners Announced
The Little Green Books team joined forces with Eco-Libris
this fall to sponsor a sweepstakes in which children across
the country shared ways they were helping to save the earth.
Here are the winning entries—congrats to all!
For the full article please click HERE
February
9 , 2009: Little Green Blog - I Can Save the Earth! Sweepstakes
Winners Announced
The Little Green Books team joined forces with Eco-Libris
this fall to sponsor a sweepstakes in which children across
the country shared ways they were helping to save the earth.
Here are the winning entries—congrats to all!
For the full article please click HERE
February
3 , 2009: Official Zinerrific blog - A new partnership with
Eco-Libris tree planting!
We’re a bit late at announcing this (it’s been
live for a few weeks!), but we’re excited to be the
first magazine subscription retailer to work with Eco-Libris!
For the full article please click HERE
Janurary
30 , 2008: English, Pagan and in Canada - Happy Dance
If I am happy because this 'lil old' blog has received it's
very first award! Yippee!
(See told ya my inner child is outy! ;) )...It is my turn
now to pass this award onto some other creative blogs.
Raz at Eco-Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
January
23 , 2009: 101 things in 1001 days - 101 Things To Do in 1001
Days Update
From the list: [34] Use Eco-Libris at least once to pay
back for my book habit.
For the full article please click HERE
December
28 , 2008: Trend Hunter Magazine - Guilt-Free Reading
If your reading habits are more 20th than 21st century,
you haven’t made the switch to Kindle and can’t
quite give up your print addiction, there is a way you can
feel a little less guilty about the trees that go into making
your newspapers, books and magazines.
For the full article please click HERE
December
23 , 2008: MNN - Mother Nature Network - Offset your carbon
'bookprint'
Over 30 million trees are cut down each year for use in
book publishing in the US alone. This is a big problem as
deforestation now inches closer to being the #1 cause of global
warming. But what is a tree-friendly book lover to do?
For the full article please click HERE
December
18 , 2008: the curious musings of an ordinary life.. - giving
to the trees
while perusing small souvenirs, i discovered eco-libris.
you can plant a tree for every book you read and for every
tree planted, you receive an eco-libris sticker showing your
commitment to the environment.
For the full article please click HERE
December
18 , 2008: The Santa Ynez Valley Journal - HOW GREEN IS THEIR
VALLEY
The bookstore (Valley Books) participates in Eco-Libris,
which gives customers a way to offset the paper used in the
books by paying $1 to plant a tree in a developing country.
Customers receive an Eco-Libris sticker to put on the books
they buy to show their commitment to the environment.
For the full article please click HERE
December
17, 2008: Jacket Copy - Los Angeles Times - Books today: walking,
streets and shoes
Author Tania Hershman stopped by Eco-Libris on the blog
tour for her collection, "The White Road and Other Stories."
A British-born former science journalist, Hershman now uses
science as a jumping off point for her fiction and makes her
home in Israel.
For the full article please click HERE
December
12, 2008: What Gives?! - Books = Great Gifts
Many of you may remember one of my favorite green companies,
Eco-Libris. Eco-Libris makes it easy for gift-givers to find
affordable green-themed books by visiting their website and
reading The Green Collar Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers
.This gift guide is a five part holiday series where readers
are introduced to 50 different book titles that feature green-themes.
For the full article please click HERE
December
8 , 2008: Miss Malarpop - cool holiday gift guides
Eco-Libris, a green-minded business that helps book lovers
plant a tree for every book they read, has just come out with
their Green Collar Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers. The
guide includes 50 recommendations on great green-themed books,
all from different people.
For the full article please click HERE
December
4 , 2008: It's Just Me - Reading books is such a good thing
. . .
except for the paper. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love
paper. Paper is wonderful. Crisp and lovely. Foldable. Feels
good in your hands. Makes a raspy sound when you turn the
page as you’re reading in bed. Wonderful stuff, paper.
But, I don’t love that it’s made out of trees.
We need trees...More trees. More, more, more!
For the full article please click HERE
November
25 , 2008: ecosalon - Balancing the Books
Feel guilty about reading books because they are made out
of paper that come from trees? Well, there's something you
can do about it. And I don't mean give up reading.
For the full article please click HERE
November
3, 2008: Mother Earth News - Plant Trees by Reading Books
Eco-Libris takes the guilt out of the guilty-pleasure of
reading for some environmentalists. Books today can be made
of recyclable material, but chances are, the new best seller
you’ve been waiting for is printed on virgin paper (meaning
it’s never been used before). In fact, each year, 30
million trees are cut down to supply the paper for books sold
in the United States alone.
For the full article please click HERE
October
29, 2008: The Salem News - Save money and the Earth with eco-friendly
holiday prep
The following Green Quick Fixes will help you shop, cook,
clean and decorate your holidays green...Shop for items that
have low impact. Natural fibers for clothes, paper products
printed with soy-based ink, items with little or no packaging,
books offset by tree planting (look for the Eco-Libris label),
and locally produced foods.
For the full article please click HERE
October
17, 2008: Petite Planet - "I Can Save the Earth"
Contest for Kids
Calling all earth loving kids! Be sure to enter the "I
Can Save the Earth" contest sponsored by Simon &
Schuster and Eco-Libris. Children ages 5-10 are invited to
write a story about what they are doing to save the planet...
For the full article please click HERE
October
15, 2008: Sprig.com - 10 Midwestern Eco Activities to Experience
This Autumn
No. 9: Buy a Book, Plant a Tree - Go down under at Subterranean
Books in St. Louis, Missouri, where you can feel good about
the bookworm's guilty pleasure. This independent bookstore stocks
those hard-to-find treasures and participates in Eco-ibris'
"One Tree Planted For This Book" program.
For the full article please click HERE
October
9, 2008: Life Googles - Buy A Book And Get A Tree Planted
It sounds so simple, it’s a wonder it hasn’t
been done before. Raz Godelnik, founder of Eco-Libris has
told me how he’s joined up with author Tania Hershman
and Salt ublishing in the UK to plant a tree for every copy
of Tania’s new book.
For the full article please click HERE
October
7, 2008: Daily Eco Tips - Tip #42 - Looking for a textbook?
Rent one
An Eco tip of Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris on Chegg.com, an
online textbook rental service that plant a tree for every
book they rent.
For the full article please click HERE
September
25, 2008: Kate Dyer-Seeley - Calling all Little Green Kids
I’ve posted in the past about my friends at Eco-Libris,
who make it easy to read green. For every book read, they’ll
plant a tree. Now they’re pairing up with Simon and
Schuster’s Little Green Books, the first ever eco-friendly
kid’s line.
For the full article please click HERE
September
24, 2008: Green Prophet - Sustainable Reading: The CEO of
Eco-Libris Speaks
Raz Godelnik provides few ideas on how to green up your
reading, from joining the local public library to supporting
green publishers and authors.
For the full article please click HERE
September
23, 2008: WeHeartWorld - 10 Products that Get a Tree Planted
Their motto: “Every book you read was once a tree.
Now you can plant a tree for every book you read.” That
just makes sense.
For the full article please click HERE
September
17, 2008: Matter Networks - Schuster Celebrates Green Childrens'
Book
Simon & Schuster is fielding a contest for young readers
inviting kids to write their own stories about saving the
planet..."Little Green Books are an effective way to
help plant the seeds of earth-friendly living at an early
age," said Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
September
17, 2008: Advocate of Green - Eco-Libris Update: Children's
Contest for Green Writing
I just got an email from Eco-Libris announcing a fantastic
way to get your kid's involved in being green. Check it out..
For the full article please click HERE
September
9, 2008: Vulpes Libris - Raz Godelnik from Eco-Libris talks
about the future of the book
Raz Godelnik, the co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris, writes
about few key elements that can significantly impact the future
of the book industry and determine how green it will be.
For the full article please click HERE
September
1, 2008: Max Gladwell - 7 Questions for Eco-Libris CEO and
Founder Raz Godelnik
Raz Godelnik provides salvation to an industry that wastes
as much as it enlightens. Books, trees, and a blog to tie
it all together.
For the full article please click HERE
August
25, 2008: Green Prophet - Sustainable Reading: Offset Your
Books With Eco-Libris
With September rolling around and the back to school shopping
in full swing, books are more prominent than ever. It’s
officially book season..So assuming you know that books are
going to be on your shopping list in the near future and assuming
that you know that making books requires chopping down a lot
of trees, how do you resolve this dilemma?
For the full article please click HERE
August
21, 2008: Advocate of Green - Recycled reading
I am in a book club. There are about 13 people in my book
club and we read about 1 book per month. So total for just
our club we read 156 books a year. I know lots of people who
are in book clubs. While we are doing something good for our
brains, we are doing something bad for the environment.
For the full article please click HERE
August
15, 2008: 1GreenProduct - Technology - Eco-Libris
Let's say you love books (I do), but you also love trees
(me too). This presents a conundrum, because books are generally
made out of trees. Even worse, most books are not made from
recycled paper, but from virgin paper.
For the full article please click HERE
August
14, 2008: Associated Content - Eco-Libris- Book Lovers Go
Green
Eco-Libris found at www.ecolibris.net is a relatively new
and innovative website that allows book lovers to go green.
Book lovers everywhere have had a hard time with the going
green prospect. We love to hold a hard cover book in our hands.
For the full article please click HERE
August
5, 2008: Globes -I Planted a Book
(Article is in Hebrew) ..Therefore it is a great joy to
find Eco-Libris, an internet website that shows the connection
between production of books and cutting down trees, and gives
an immediate solution. The problem becomes an opportunity:
"every book was once a tree. Now you can plant a tree
for every book you read."
For the full article please click HERE
July
29, 2008: Moomyfootprint.com - Balance Out Your Books With
Eco-Libris
Want an easy way to educate your kids about the environment
and ways to help replenish a precious resource …our
trees? Check out Eco-Libris. They are a wonderful green business
that works with book readers, publishers, authors, bookstores
and others in the book industry to balance out the paper used
for books by planting trees.
For the full article please click HERE
July
24, 2008: What Gives!? - Happy Birthday Eco-Libris!
July celebrates Eco-Libris’s first birthday! I am
happy to write this blog to attest the many accomplishments
this amazing company has achieved in just one short year!
Eco-Libris has had measurable success in its first year, success
that pacifies both the environmentalists and book enthusiasts
in each of us.
For the full article please click HERE
July
21, 2008: Actualitte - Eco Libris change vos livres en arbres
et les replante
(French) Initiative très altermondialiste puisque
destinée à remplumer le territoire d'Amérique
centrale et d'Afrique en arbres, pour tout produit acheté
aux États-Unis. Selon les chiffres, le pays utiliserait
en effet 20 millions d'arbres annuellement pour produire 4,15
milliards de livres dont seulement 5 à 10 % seraient
issus du recyclage de matériaux.
For the full article please click HERE
July
20, 2008: Times Argus Online - Between the Lines
An industry that goes through millions of tons of paper
and ink every year and ships its products thousands of miles
(and sometimes back if they don't sell) doesn't look very
"green." But at least one Vermont bookstore is trying
to make up for the more wasteful practices of the publishing
industry.
For the full article please click HERE
July
18, 2008: Manufactured Dissent Art Collective - Eco-Libris
- Q&A
Eco-Libris is a green business that works with book readers,
publishers, authors, bookstores, and others in the book industry
to balance out the paper used for books by planting trees...Check
out our Q&A with Raz, CEO and co-founder of Eco-Libris..
For the full article please click HERE
July
14, 2008: Ethical and Green - Eco-Libris
The founder of Eco Libris recently contacted us and told
us about his business. We had a look and it sounds like a
great idea. Here is some more information about the site.
For the full article please click HERE
July
14, 2008: Breeni Books - Happy Belated Anniversary to Eco-Libris
One of my favorite companies, Eco-Libris, just celebrated
its one-year anniversary at the beginning of July! Isn't that
great?
For the full article please click HERE
July
8, 2008: johmiedema.ca - Eco-Libris Tracks the Paper/Plastic
Green Debate
“Would you like that book in paper or plastic?”
A great opening question by Engelhaupt in her very determined
effort to find out if e-books really are any better than print
books for the environment. The story is just one of many now
tracked by Eco-Libris on a dedicated resource page.
For the full article please click HERE
July
8, 2008: Treehugger - Children's Book "Planet Earth Gets
Well"
As a green dad, I'm always on the lookout for informative
books that can help to make a better world for my children's
future. Ecolibris.net, who plants a tree for each book purchased,
put together a nifty list of green book gifts for this past
Fathers Day
For the full article please click HERE
July
1, 2008: ecolectic - Eco-libris cuts out the guilt of buying
paper books
Books are awesome, but for those of us who are both avid
readers and environmentally conscious, sitting down with our
favorite read can sometimes bring us pangs of guilt. And no
wonder, roughly 20 million trees are cut down every year to
supply virgin paper for the books sold in the US alone.
For the full article please click HERE
June
17, 2008: Planet Green - Matter Networks - Eco-Libris Offsets
Books
Publishers have struggled to make their industry greener.
Eco-Libris works to plant trees to counteract the effects
of timber felled for the production of books, working with
everyone involved in the lifecycle of a book from the printer
to the reader.
For the full article please click HERE
June
17, 2008: Creative Synthesis - Eco-Libris
Eco-Libris removes the intellectual and social distance
between production and consumption by encouraging consumers
to plant a tree for each book read.
For the full article please click HERE
June
15, 2008: Litopia After Dark - Are Books Bad?
Our special guest Raz Goldelnik talks about the impact books
have on the environment. His company, Eco-Libris, believes
in providing people with easy and affordable ways to take
responsibility for their actions and go green by planting
one tree for each book they read.
For the full article please click HERE
June
14, 2008: Eco-Travel Logue - Eco-Libris Provides Great Green
Travel Books
If you haven’t already found the website, Eco-Libris
is a wonderful eco lovin’ site dedicated to balancing
out the harm we do by reading books.
For the full article please click HERE
June
12, 2008: Planet Green - Meet an Expert Dad: Raz Godelnik,
CEO of Ecolibris
If you, like my 14 year old daughter Layla, really love
to read--she voraciously devours 5 or 6 books a week!--you
might have some green guilt. Because, yes, that wonderful
cliffhanger, that thoughtful prose, or if you're like me,
the growing collection of "FILL IN THE BLANK for Dummies,"
used to be part of a living tree.
For the full article please click HERE
June
11, 2008: Michael Kleiner's June Newsletter - Eco-Libris putting
"stamp" on marriage of books and trees
You look at the Harry Potter tomes and may bemoan the trees
that died making J. K. Rowling rich and famous and Harry Potter
an icon. (Only the last three books indicate they were published
on recycled paper). What if there could be an exchange to
bring some of those trees back?
For the full article please click HERE
June
11, 2008: Green Mom Finds - For the Bookworm Dad
Looking for the perfect Father’s Day gift? If your
father (or husband) is a book-lover, then check out the Eco-Libris
Green Books Guide for Father’s Day. If you haven’t
heard about them yet, Eco-Libris is an awesome company that
helps people (like you and I!) balance out
For the full article please click HERE
May
28, 2008: Keyboard Culture - Top 7 Ways to Tell You're a Global
Warming Loser – Way 7 of 7: Get On
Allow me to share with you the encouraging details of Eco-Libris,
a very fine initiative which seeks to help people plant a
tree with every book they read. How about that?
For the full article please click HERE
May
22, 2008: Time Out Chicago - High marks
Article on Pilcrow Lit Festival and its organizer, author
Amy Guth, that also describes the festival's partnership with
Eco-Libris.
For the full article please click HERE
May
21, 2008: What Gives!?- Read Me A Book, Plant Me A Tree
Until recently I didn't put too much thought into the environmental
stipulations of book production. Yes, I know trees are necessary
for paper, and paper is necessary for books. However, I did
not know that over 20 million trees are cut down annually
to supply the United States with books.
For the full article please click HERE
May
20, 2008: Greener Impact - Plant a tree for every book you
read
Here is one of those real “ahhaa” moments, where
I wish I thought of this myself. A green company called Eco-Libris,
has finally come up with the perfect solution to replenishing
trees taken from the forests, that are used for paper in books,
by planting a tree for every book sold.
For the full article please click HERE
May
19, 2008: Max Gladwell - Keeping Better Books: One Tree Per
Read
If you’re a tree, you curse the day the printing press
was invented. For people, though, it sparked a revolution
(some might say a renaissance) in thought and fueled a mass
enlightenment that continues to this day. The downside to
reading, one might argue, is that it consumes all of those
trees.
For the full article please click HERE
May
19, 2008: Going Crunchy - Green Reading
I was contacted by an green business called Eco-Libris,
and after researching their information I'd really like to
draw a little attention to them. They strive to promote "sustainable
reading" which essentially means planting trees to help
replenish what we readers use in our book habits.
For the full article please click HERE
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.
For the full article please click HERE
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?
Ed Begley Jr. has made one of his rare east coast trips and
if you’re in NYC tonight, you can go hang with the green
guru tonight at the Strand Bookstore. Environmental Defense
is putting on the event, with Eco-Libris presenting an offset
scheme whereas customers can pay to plant a tree to balance
out books they purchase in the store.
For the full article please click HERE
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.
For the full article please click HERE
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?
For the full article please click HERE
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,
For the full article, please click HERE
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.
For the full article, please click HERE
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.
For the full article, please click HERE
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.
For the full article, please click HERE
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