In the News
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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