Green Thing #5- Books!

Greg and I love to read.  We don't even have cable...and why would we, when books are so much better?!  Unfortunately, a steady reading habit isn't the most green thing in the world.  Books have to be printed, bound, shipped, and sold, so each book has a fairly big ecological footprint (see here: http://myfootprint.org/)

So what we did today was we went to our local library, which was having a used book sale.  Not only did we get about a dozen USED books (nothing new printed!), we got them for cheap, and a few of them will even be used for decorations, instead of heading to the landfill.

Some other things you can do are:
1.  Buy books at yard sales, thrift stores, etc.
2. Use the library (borrow books) and look for used book sales.
3. Share/trade books with others

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