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.

Being that I pretty much mainline books I'm all for it. My fingers are tapping a vein in my arm right now. There is no way I could plant enough trees to cover what I probably go through in a year (even by using a library and buying used books) so more power to it. There is probably zero chance I'm hopping a plane to personally plant trees in areas that are being ravished for our bodice-buster books, my glorious non-fiction or penchant for Southern authors (YEAH for Ricky Bragg and Sharyn McCrumb) or even our respectable New York Times.

From their website:

Books are everywhere, just look around: on bookshelves at home, in college
students' backpacks, in the mail from the book club or in that pile in your room
right now. For some people they’re for education, for others they’re an
entertaining escapade and for some, reading is really a passion. Eco-Libris is
for everyone. It is a green business that enables people to do something
reasonable, affordable yet with an impact: plant one tree for every book they
read. We believe that taking responsibility for the environmental costs of the
books we read is only natural.

They also have gift card programs, swaps with Book Mooch and more. Explore the site! I'm going to put it in a Crunchy Feature for a little while in hopes that other book lovers might hop on board.