My Green Resolution for 2009 - Valley Books

Our journey to learn about our partners' green resolutions for 2009 takes us today to a little town in California named Sovlang (which means "Sunny field" in Danish). There you can find Valley Books, which is owned by Vonda Schaefer, our guest for today.

Opened in February 2008, Valley Books is a friendly new and used bookstore and cafe in the little Danish town of Solvang, California. Valley Books is participating in Eco-Libris' bookstores program, where customers at the store can plant a tree for every book they buy there and receive our sticker at the counter!

Hello Vonda. What is your green resolution for 2009?

Our green resolution is to become a certified green business through the county of Santa Barbara – this is a new program they have begun.

Valley Books has some other fun resolutions:

To promote our new Sunday Night Soup Nights (local, healthy soups and bakery-fresh bread). We are promoting: “Eat Healthy, Eat Local, Eat Together.” We will also be seeking out even more talented local musicians for our Saturday Nights “Beat’N’Treats.” This is live music and specialty desserts prepared by a local pastry chef.

Thanks, Vonda!

You can read more on Vonda and Valley Books on an article that was published few weeks ago on the Santa Ynez Valley Journal - http://www.santaynezvalleyjournal.com/archive/6/51/3465.

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Plant a tree for every book you read!

New stores on our bookstores program

We are happy to update you on new stores that joined our bookstores program in the last couple of weeks:

1. Acquired Books - Medfield, Massachusetts

Opened on October 4, Acquired Books (see photo above) have lots of popular fiction and non-fiction in the store, so if you live nearby come on in and just browse. They usually have some tea brewing and cookies to enjoy while looking to find a good book to read! You're also welcome to check out their great blog - http://www.acquiredbooks.blogspot.com.

The store's address: 36 Park Street Medfield, MA

2. Valley Books - Solvang, California

Opened in February 2008, Valley Books is a friendly new and used bookstore and cafe in the little Danish town of Solvang, California.

The store's address: 1582 Mission Dr.,Solvang, CA 93463

3. Local Color - Flagstaff, Arizona

Local Color is an earth-friendly printing company and store in Flagstaff, Arizona. Local Color strives to provide goods and services that have a positive impact on the environment and the community. Local Color works to demonstrate that customers don't need to compromise on price, quality or service in order to protect and improve the environment. The wide selection of books at Local Color all carry the Eco-Libris sticker, because Local Color has chosen to plant a tree for every book in the store.

The store's address: 10 N. Leroux st., Flagstaff, AZ 86001

A full list of all the stores that participate in our bookstores program can be found here: http://www.ecolibris.net/bookstores.asp

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Plant a tree for every book you read!