Archive for the 'Going Green' Category
LegalPubs for Greener Law?
November 9th, 2009Stem Legal – “The only way the premise works of course, is for Law Librarians to be using RSS for new product awareness. So the question becomes: Are we there yet?”
Compostable Library Cards?
April 29th, 2009oing Green @your library – “The San Francisco Public Library will soon be handing out compostable corn EcoCards (they still offer plastic as an option). Its not that landfills are not overflowing with plastic library cards, but models environmentally responsibility.”
Global Warming’s Library Challenge
October 31st, 2008Library Journal – “Like every institution that uses energy, consumes resources, and engages in construction or renovation, libraries have an impact on the environment and on the critical problem of climate change.”
God’s Green Earth
October 30th, 2008Paper Cuts Blog – “The Green Bible,†printed on eco-friendly recycled paper, with cotton/linen cover and soy-based ink, makes the Word of God not only accessible (it’s the New Revised Standard Version, not the sonorous King James) but exceptionally biodegradable.”
Want to Green Your Addiction to Books? Buy Ebooks:
October 30th, 2008More from Eco-Libris
Books vs. eBooks: Which Are Greener?
August 31st, 2008RiverWired – “But is an eBook really greener than a regular, paper book?” (via)
New Kanawha library to use green tech
August 9th, 2008Another new Green library
Strand’s customers are going green!
August 8th, 2008Eco-Libris: We are very proud in our collaboration with Strand Book Store, New York’s independent landmark book store
Guster’s Gardner puts eco-message into practice
March 22nd, 2008Reuters – “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, 2008LibrarianInBlack – “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, 2008Green PCs (via)
Cloth Library Bags for Sale
February 4th, 2008Going 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, 2008livelibrary – “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, 2008Green librarians!
GreenPrint offers free paper-saving software
January 30th, 2008Green 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, 2008Yay! Beth Filar-Williams has started a blog titled, Going Green @ Your Library.
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More on Going Green
January 9th, 2008They’re going to build a Green library in Middletown, PA.
UK book industry goes (a little bit) green
December 5th, 2007Eco-Libris has the info
Someone needs to start a “Going Green: blog for the library community.
Giving Green
November 26th, 2007More on Going Green for the holidays. (via)
Even More on Going Green
November 24th, 2007Beth Filar Williams – Greening Your Library [PDF]
More on Going Green
November 23rd, 2007Carol Leita (another librarian hero of mine) blogs about unwanted catalogs.
Going Green
November 23rd, 2007Raz 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, 2007Steve 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 [...]
