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Guster’s Gardner puts eco-message into practice

March 22nd, 2008

Reuters - “Since co-founding Reverb in 2004, Gardner, who runs the nonprofit with his wife, environmentalist Lauren Sullivan, has helped turn more than 50 concert tours green, reduce 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide, distribute approximately 250,000 gallons of biodiesel and spread the Earth-conscious message to 4.5 million music fans. And his efforts won’t stop there.”
Gardner [...]

Green Libraries Unconference

March 15th, 2008

LibrarianInBlack - “The Arlington Public Library is holding a *free* one day Green Libraries Unconference April 23rd in Arlington, Virgina.”

Ars System Guide special: it’s easy being green

February 26th, 2008

Green PCs (via)

Cloth Library Bags for Sale

February 4th, 2008

Going Green @ Your Library - “[W]hy not try some marketing for your library and raise a little money in the process, by creating and selling cloth bags with your library’s logo on them.”
OMG, I love this blog!!!

Going Green @ Your Library…

February 4th, 2008

livelibrary - “Hey, guess what? My friend from Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute in 2005 has started a nicely focussed blog on going green.”

Eye On The Environment

February 3rd, 2008

Green librarians!

GreenPrint offers free paper-saving software

January 30th, 2008

Green Tech blog - “The new application, GreenPrint World, detects and highlights unwanted content, such as banner ads on a Web page, that tends to spill over onto extra pages. It also lets users delete images from the printed page and quickly create print-friendly PDF documents. The GreenPrint interface appears when users print from any [...]

Going Green @ Your Library

January 29th, 2008

Yay! Beth Filar-Williams has started a blog titled, Going Green @ Your Library.
Subscribed!!

More on Going Green

January 9th, 2008

They’re going to build a Green library in Middletown, PA.

UK book industry goes (a little bit) green

December 5th, 2007

Eco-Libris has the info
Someone needs to start a “Going Green: blog for the library community.

Giving Green

November 26th, 2007

More on Going Green for the holidays. (via)

Even More on Going Green

November 24th, 2007

Beth Filar Williams - Greening Your Library [PDF]

More on Going Green

November 23rd, 2007

Carol Leita (another librarian hero of mine) blogs about unwanted catalogs.

Going Green

November 23rd, 2007

Raz Godelnik - “I am very happy to hear from our readers, especially when it’s about a book they wrote that is printed on recycled paper.”

Are Printed Books “Un Media Green”?

November 8th, 2007

Steve Rubel thinks so. I agree, to a point (I rarely use a printer or photocopier and do most of my reading online).
What if we were able to recycle 100% of every printed book, maybe after we read them? Drink a Pepsi, recycle the can. Read a Stephen King novel, recycle the [...]