planting trees

Whereis, an online mapping website, has team up with Greenfleet to reduce the carbon emissions produced by Australian drivers in a campaign called The GreenRoad. This campaign was started in order to offset the CO2 emissions from up to 200km or 125 miles of a trip you take. I wanted to find out a little more background information about this campaign and try it out for myself.

Eco-Libris just turned one year old! I am happy to report that we have balanced out so far 50,005 books, which results in 65,586 new trees that are being planted with our planting partners in developing countries. Birthday update is available on our blog.

Eco-Libris is offering you now to plant trees to balance out the books of your loved ones who celebrate their birthday. Not only that new trees will be planted for their books, but they will also receive our stickers with a beautiful birthday card, all made of recycled paper.

Forest Conservation helps reduce greenhouse emissions, preserve biodiversity, and improves rural livelihoods, and one of the best ways for consumers to help fund these projects is by purchasing carbon offsets.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced yesterday that its Billion Tree Campaign to Grow into the Seven Billion Tree Campaign.

The green website teensygreen has a great giveaway - it offers you the chance to win a free copy of

Today is Arbor Day in the U.S. and we are very excited as this is the day of the trees. Many businesses and organizations are celebrating Arbor Day with special initiatives and Eco-Libris blog brings you more details.

More than 5,000 trees will be planted with Eco-Libris to balance out the Swedish edition of the latest book from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 'Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism', which is now being published in Swedish by BookHouse Publishing.

A mini-documentary about Honduran farmer Don Cheyo, who grows organic crops and lives sustainably thanks to help from Sustainable Harvest International (SHI).

Eco-Libris blog brings updates from RIPPLE Africa, our planting partner that is working and planting trees in Malawi, Africa.

Eco-Libris is offering you now to plant trees to balance out the books of your loved ones who celebrate their birthday. Not only that new trees will be planted to balance out their books, but they will also receive our stickers with a beautiful birthday card made of recycled paper.

Two new bookstores will be offering their customers to balance out books they buy with Eco-Libris at the store: The Muse Book Shop in DeLand, FL and Sources of Hope Gifts & Books in Dallas, Texas.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris writes on the bad news from Brazil about the increasing deforestation in the Amazon rain forest, the measures taken to fight it, and what he thinks should be added to these measures to make sure these precious trees will be kept alive.