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Eco-Libris' September winners at the Garden Gate Shop
Last August we published here the story on the Garden Gate Shop in the Missouri Botanical Garden, which initiated an Eco Libris sales contest between the sales associates.The Garden Gate Shop is takin...
GreetQ, an online greeting card retailer, is collaborating with Eco-Libris
We're happy to announce on a new collaboration with GreetQ, an online greeting card retailer. GreetQ.com offers greeting card services that allow customers to personalize and schedule paper greeting ...
Al Gore and Wangari Maathai calls the U.N. General Assemby to support protection of forests
The U.N. General Assembly in New York got a lot of attention because of the visit of the Iranian President, but it also had two important visitors that had a much more important message to the world l...
My article about the book industry's key elements for green future on Vulpes Libris
Vulpes Libris invited me to take part and write an article for their Environment Week, and so I happily did. The article is about few key elements that can significantly impact the future of the book ...
The numbers are going up: 30 million trees are cut down annually for the books sold in the U.S.
Until lately we were quoting the figure of 20 million trees as the common estimate for the number of trees cut down annually for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone. Not any more. And unfor...
It's time to rent some textbooks - Chegg's 'Textbook Tuesday' is tomorrow!
Living nearby a university (UD in my case) has pros and cons. But one fact is that you know exactly when the academic year is about to begin (hint: flocks of students can be seen again on Main Street)...
Eco-Libris medalists at the Garden Gate Shop
I just saw Michael Phelps winning gold medal no. 8. What a performance! This is so exciting and I was so happy for him. So kudos to Phelps, and now it's time to brag with our own medalists -Sheena Pet...
Businesses saving paper, trees and money
Saving paper = Saving trees = Saving money. This equation is maybe one of the clearest examples of how going green will benefit not only the environment, but also your bottom line. More and more busin...
Monday's green books series: Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper
Our book this week on Monday's green books will take you on a trail that we find one of the most interesting and significant ones in our life: the paper trail.Our book for today is:Paper Trails: From ...
Did you check Eco-Libris' website lately?
Did you have the chance to check lately our website, read about our operations and balance out some of your books by planting trees? I hope you did and if you didn't you're welcome to check it now. E...
Subscription option is available on Eco-Libris website
We would like to remind you with an option that we added to Eco-Libris' website - subscription.If you have a big library at home and you want to green it up one bookshelf or bookcase at a time, balanc...
Deforestation data is avialable now on Google Earth
Google Earth is pretty cool. I have to admit I don't use it much, but when I do I enjoy it so much - navigating all over the world with my mouse. I can do it for hours.. And now you can not only navig...
New goal for UNEP: Seven billion trees by the end of 2009
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced yesterday that its Billion Tree Campaign to Grow into the Seven Billion Tree Campaign. This is great news. The Billion Tree Campaign was initi...
It's Arbor Day - Hip Hip Hooray!
Today is Arbor Day in the U.S. and we are very excited as this is the day of the trees. For us, who are involved in tree planting operations and in efforts to reduce the number of trees cut down for p...
Raincoast Books is partnering with Eco-Libris in a new campaign: 'Buy a book, Plant a tree'
Big news from Canada! We've got a new partnership going on with Raincoast Books, a leading Canadian publisher and distributor, in a joint environmental campaign: 'Buy a Book, Plant a Tree'. Here are t...
Condoms will help to conserve trees in the Brazilian Rain Forest
Good news from Brazil - the Brazilian government inaugurated a condom factory that will help both poor Brazilian rubber tappers to make a living and to preserve the Amazon rain forest. Sounds like a ...
Merrill Lynch is investing in forest protection
With all the gloomy news coming these days from Wall Street, it's great to see that when it comes to the environment, Wall-Street is still bullish. I'm talking about the news on Merrill Lynch new inv...
Eco-Bibles? Hallelujah!
“The Earth is the Lord's and All its Fullness” (Psalm 24:1). Yep, the first book ever to be printed is sprouting some greenery with an Eco-Friendly bible by The Thomas Nelson Bible Group. The Cha...
Planting updates from RIPPLE Africa
Eco-Libris is very proud of its great planting partners, which are planting the trees for the books that are balanced out by our customers. We bring you from time to time updates on the planting opera...
A new movie on Wangari Maathai in a DC Environmenal Film Festival
If you like green films, you should check out the Environmental Film Festival that will take place in Washington D.C. ON March 11-22.This is the 16th Annual Festival and it will include 100 documentar...
Happy Tu B'Shevat!
Today is Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish "New Year for Trees". We started celebrating it last week with the blog 'Ima on (and off) the bima', and today we'll write a little bit more on this great holiday. The...
Tu B'shevat green celebration at 'Ima and (off the) Bima' blog
Tu B'shevat is still ahead of us (it's on Jan 22), but Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, a rabbi at a congregation on the North Shore of Chicago, is already celebrating it on her blog Ima and (off the) Bima.Tu B'...
World's largest publisher of children's books goes green
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Largest_Children_s_Book_Publisher_Goes_Green_or_do_they';While we were concentrating last week on green mooching, Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and...
10,000 books were balanced out so far and it's just the beginning!
I am happy to update you that Eco-Libris reached another milestone - 10,000 books were balanced out so far, resulting in more than 13,000 new trees that are being planted by our wonderful planting par...
New subscription option on Eco-Libris website
We open the new year with a new option that we add to our website - subscription.If you have a big library at home and you want to green it up one bookshelf or bookcase at a time, this is a great opti...
Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008
I know you probably read already gazillion summaries of 2007 and got another trillion best wishes for 2008, so I'll try to be short here :-)2007 was a very good year for me - About 6 months ago I co-f...