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Read the Press ReleasePlant a Tree for Every Book You Read
Want to get a new book but worry about its environmental impact? Worry a little bit less. With the help of Eco-Libris, you can plant a tree for every book you buy or read.
Says Raz Godelnik, an Eco-Libris co-founder, the company works with readers, publishers, writers, bookstores, and others in the book industry to balance out the paper used for any book by planting trees. About 20 million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper to be used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone. Eco-Libris raises awareness about the environmental impacts of using paper for the production of books and provides book lovers with a simple way to do something about it: plant a tree for every book they read. Ten dollars will cover tree planting for ten books.
To date, Eco-Libris has balanced out over 24,000 books, resulting in the planting of more than 31,500 new trees! Kedzie Press is collaborating with Eco-Libris in a "Million Tree-A-Thon" initiative" to plant one million trees for one million books by the end of 2009.
The Eco-Libris program is being offered by some local bookstores; otherwise, it's easy to participate on-line.
Thumbs up, Eco-Libris.
You can read my interview with Eco-Libris here.
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Comments: 3
I went directly to the website of one of their planting partmers (AIR/Stetson University) and for $25 they will plant 300 trees intead of 13 trees for $10 that Eco-Libris offers.
I'll donate directly to the AIR/Stetson University ptoject and print my own stickers to put in my books saying that I've balanced out my purchase by contributing to a tree planting organization.