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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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).

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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!

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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