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It's rare that a coffee table book is a vehicle for environmental transformation. Renowned photographers Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt have pulled together a stunning, heart-felt, intelligent, reality-facing book about our global water crisis. Blue Planet Run Foundation is offering a free pdf of the book to all educators.

Eco-Libris is happy to announce that UConn Co-op, the official bookstore for the University of Connecticut and one of the largest university bookstores in the U.S., is joining the

Do you have a big library at home and you want to green it up one bookshelf or bookcase at a time? Eco-Libris has the solution for you: a subscription option, balancing out 5 or 10 books by planting trees every month on regular basis.

Cool company is trying to plant a tree (well actually 1.3 trees!) for every book you buy! You can also get trees planted for all your existing books too.

The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT is joining the Eco-Libris bookstores program. Customers will have the opportunity to pay $1 to plant a tree to balance every book they purchase in the store.

From Planet Green: Raz Godelnik, CEO of Eco-Libris and a new dad, on green reading.

Squeaky Green was written by the creators of Method, Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry. Refreshingly without pushing their own products, they have written an incredible room by room resource for ridding the world of dirty. 

Little Green Books is a new series available at Simon an Schuster.  Evo rated these a 5 with attributes of promoting a green lifestyle and using recycled paper. Not only are the books green, but so are their earth-friendly messages.

Mother's Day is coming soon (May 11) and Eco-Libris is presenting the ultimate guide for the best green books to give this Mother's Day. We went over all the books reviewed and covered so far on our blog and chose ten books that will suit ten different types of moms, from the suburban mother to the fashionable mom. 

Every day we are publicizing and making available five free copies of a new green-related book on the BookMooch.com online book swapping community.

In a partnership of BookMooch with Eco-Libris, and in celebration of the coming Earth Day, several book publishers are donating copies of new green themed books to the BookMooch community of on-line book swappers. The recipients are encouraged to read the book and then pass it on, but also to support the green publishers and authors by patronizing their amazon pages.

An interview with Tyson Miller, the Founder and Director of the Green Press Initiative, following the report 'Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts:Findings from the U.S. Book Industry'.

Green news from Canada! Raincoast Books, best known in green circles as the Canadian publisher of the green edition of the latest Harry Potter books, is partnering with Eco-Libris in a joint campaign: 'Buy a Book, Plant a Tree'. Raincoast signed up 80 Canadian retailers who will be selling a wide range of environmentally themed books through April 2008. These books come with Eco-Libris stickers stating that one tree will be planted for each one of them.

A site for discussion and headlines about solar energy, using the Squidoo.com lens format, with a guestbook for comments and feedback.

Eco-Libris blog reviews the 'Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts:Findings from the U.S. Book Industry', the new detailed analysis of the book industry's footprint.