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We are very happy to announce that we ended a very successful green campaign on Facebook.
The campaign that took place on April focused on our Facebook group and included tree planting, giveaway of green books and an effort to increase our Facebook group to 1000 members.
And we did it! On April 30 we reached our goal and on May 1, we had 1036 members! Now, we're going to plant a tree on behalf of all the 455 new members that joined our group on April, so all together we'll have 455 new trees to be planted with our planting partner AIR in Guatemala. So it's time to say thank you to all the participants in our campaign - to the new members, to the existing members that encouraged their friends to join, to friends who helped us to spread the word and last but not least - to all of our partners that donated great books for the giveaways we had during the campaign. THANK YOU ALL!
Our work on Facebook though has not ended and we'll continue to provide our growing community with information and updates on our work and quest to make reading more sustainable, photos from the planting areas of course and special offers from our partners.Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
www.ecolibris.net
Today is the last day to our April green campaign on our Facebook group and we're almost meeting our goal of having 1,000 members by the end of April!
Right now we have 995 members and a little bit more than 10 hours until the end of the day (EST), so we can definitely do it!!
Here's what we had so far this month:
- We added so far 414 new members to the group (We started with 581 members on April 1)
- We're planting a new tree for each new member until we reach the 1000th member, so we're having so far 414 new trees that will be planted with our planting partners on behalf of the new members.
- We had giveaways of 26 books of authors and publishers we work with , including Green Beginning by Avrim and Vicki Topel, Sammy and Sue Go Green Too! by Suzanne Corso, Little Green Books (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing), The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales by Dawn Casey and Gardening Eden by Michael Abbaté
So we're now on the last day and we hope to finish this green celebration with at least 5 more new members and 5 new trees that will be planted on their behalf.
And in celebration of the successful ending of this campaign, we're giving away today a very special gift - a new book by author Fiona Robyn that is only due to be published (by Snowbooks) on August 2009!
The author, who is collaborating with Eco-Libris, donated one copy of "The Blue Handbag", which will also be signed by her!
Here are some more details on the book:
After forty years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It's only after her sudden death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can't ignore. Accompanied by Lily, his wife's childhood friend, Leonard becomes a reluctant detective as his whole life starts to unravel... 'The Blue Handbag' is steeped in a quiet poetry which reminds us to take pleasure from the ordinary details of life - reading stories to our children, sharing silence with our friend over a beer, enjoying the plants Leonard tends for a living - and never to take anything for granted.
You can read more about it at www.fionarobyn.com/thebluehandbag.htm.
Thanks again to all the participants in our campaign and all of our supporters and fans that helped us running this campaign.
Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
www.ecolibris.net
We wanted to remind you of our Earth Day celebration on our Facebook group, which includes tree planting, giveaway of green books and an effort to increase our Facebook group to 1000 members by the end of the month!
We already added 179 new members to the group (right now we have 760 members) which is great, as for EVERY new member (until the 1000th member) we will plant a tree with our planting partners!
And we also have great green books to give away! We are giving away now every day one great book of authors and publishers we work with. Yesterday, for example, we gave away a great package of 7 books! Yes, the prize was a package including the 7 books released so far on the Little Green Books series, gift of the publisher, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. The package includes great children books, such as Little Panda, Little Monkey, I Can Save the Earth!, The Polar Bears' Home and more! You can read about them at http://www.simonlittlegreen.com.
We have more great books such as:
- Green Beginnings by Avrim and Vicki Topel
- Sammy and Sue Go Green Too! by Suzanne Corso
- The Acronym by Rebecca Lerwill
- The Blue Handbag by Fiona Robyn
- The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales by Dawn Casey
- Gardening Eden by Michael Abbaté
With your assistance by April 30, we'll succeed to increase our community to (at least) 1,000 members and plant hundreds of new trees!
The link to our group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/wall.php?id=4590684259Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
www.ecolibris.net
Earth Day is just around the corner (April 22) and Eco-Libris has a busy month coming - from a celebration of green reading with the Chicago Bulls to an Earth Day campaign with Raincoast Books in Canadian Bookstores and a couple of new collaborations with publishers, including Barefoot Books, Beaufort Books and Bookhouse Publishing (check out our updates here for more information).
As busy as this month is we don't want to forget it's all about the celebration of Earth Day. This Earth day we have many green books to give away and many trees to plant. And we wish to celebrate it with as many friends as possible! We set up a goal of increasing our number of Facebook group members to at least 1,000 members by the end of the month.
We started with 581 members on April 1 and already we have 96 new members which brings us to 677 members all together! And we're not counting only new members, we're counting trees! For every new member (until we reach the 1000th member) Eco-Libris will plant a new tree with our planting partners!
And we also have great green books to give away! Since we needed at the beginning at least 14 new members a day, we decided to have a raffle of a new book each day we'll meet this goal. We're giving away great green books of an author or publisher that works with Eco-Libris! We have great books waiting for you, such as:
- Green Beginning by Avrim and Vicki Topel
- Sammy and Sue Go Green Too! by Suzanne Corso
- Little Green Books (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
- The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales by Dawn Casey
- Gardening Eden by Michael Abbaté
And more! We'll add more information about all of the books on our wall during this month, so stay tuned and check out our group (and join it if you haven't done it yet :-) at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/wall.php?id=4590684259
With your assistance by April 30, we'll succeed to increase our community to (at least) 1,000 members and plant hundreds of new trees!
Happy and Green April!
Raz @ Eco-Libris
www.ecolibris.net
