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Tomorrow (Thursday, October 16) we send our monthly newsletter and this is a great opportunity not only to read about updates about our work, but also to receive special offers from authors and publishers we work with.
We will offer all of our newsletter's readers discounts on the following books:'Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town' by Kelly McMasters'Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations & Traditions for the Whole Family' by Corey Colwell-Lipson & Lynn ColwellThe White Road and other Stories by Tania Hershman BUTT UGLY by Lynn Montgomery
BUTT UGLY by Lynn Montgomery
There will be also a special offer of free copies of 'Planet Earth Gets Well' by Madeline Kaplan!
And last but not least, a special offer on book-themed gift baskets from our friends and partners at Bookworm.If you haven't signed up yet to our newsletter you can do it now to enjoy all of these special offers. All you have to do is just to sign up, using the box on the right side of the page saying 'Join Our Email List' and that's it !
And as we wrote two weeks ago, if you sign up until October 31, you will have the chance of winning a copy of "Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species" by Mira Tweti. We will have a raffle between the new subscribers on November 1st and will post here the name of the winner. And of course, a tree will be planted for this copy as well!
Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
Plant a tree for every book you read!
This year's Blog Action Day is dedicated to poverty and to ways we can and should fight it. This is a great opportunity to give big kudos to our planting partners, who are dedicated not only to fight deforestation in developing countries, but also to fight poverty in these areas.
In many cases, deforestation and poverty goes together. I would like to quote from a letter of Florence Reed, founder and president of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) few months ago that explains this connection:
"More than 158 million acres of forest were destroyed in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990 to 2005, the United Nations reports. Slash-and-burn farming devastates communities and the fragile ecosystems where they live... I recently returned from Nicaragua, where I saw smoldering stretches of land where I had seen lush tropical forest only a few years ago. Ancient trees are being cleared to make way for cattle pasture and African palm plantations or simply burnt for charcoal. The cycle of slash-and-burn depletes nutrients from the soil so that farmers are no longer able to grow their crops. Families are forced to abandon homesteads and seek new areas of forest to burn, or travel to urban areas in search of a better life that they rarely find there. The families burning these stretches of land are living in extreme poverty. They are desperate to learn ways to provide food for their children without destroying the forest.
Sustainable Harvest International is the solution to this vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation. Our local staff provide training in simple techniques that enable families to increase their yields, market their crops, improve their health and restore the environment."
This is only one example of the great work done by SHI, as well as the Alliance for International Reforestation (AIR) in Guatemala and RIPPLE Africa in Malawi. We are proud to collaborate with them and thank them for their efforts to fight both deforestation and poverty.
Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
Plant a tree for every book you read!
* The photo is courtesy of Sustainable Harvest international (SHI)
Tomorrow (Thursday, October 16) we send our monthly newsletter and this is a great opportunity not only to read about updates about our work, but also to receive special offers from authors and publishers we work with. 
