Do you worry about how many trees it takes to make a book? I must admit, it wasn't something I'd really thought about, but it probably should have been. (Particularly after all those meaty Harry Potters - won't somebody think of the squirrels!)
Thanks to a new business called Eco-Libris, I've just learned that about 20 million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone.
Luckily the company allows you to balance out the paper used for the books you read by planting trees. All you need to do is go to the website, decide how many books you would like to balance out, pay (of course) and then a tree is planted for each of these books. Plus, for every book, you'll receive a “One Tree Planted for this Book” sticker made of recycled paper. And you'll feel smug. It's win-win!
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