http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2009/04/20/april-22-is-earth-day-how-will-you-celebrate/ Book reviews, author interviews, industry news and more from the online bookstore with a soul. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:57:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2009/04/20/april-22-is-earth-day-how-will-you-celebrate/comment-page-1/#comment-2534 Erik Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:47:04 +0000 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/?p=3791#comment-2534 I think you folks need to think about tripling the carbon offset amounts. Your business plan includes the wasteful trucking of material, a lot of which ends up as pulp to Indiana from, say, Florida or California. The very opposite of the "buy local" movement. In many cases you have inserted yourselves in an existing local business that could have dealt with distribution locally. For just one example, I ordered a book from you that was from a library about 80 miles from me, but it had traveled an extra 2000 miles to Indiana and another 2000 miles back. One of the many local booksellers could have handled the book. Your "saved from landfills" figure is also grossly inflated, there were local methods in place to sell these library books in many cases before your firm was created, and most of the created jobs were transferred from other locations. I have nothing against Indiana, in fact I was born there, but please be more honest with yourselves. I think you folks need to think about tripling the carbon offset amounts. Your business plan includes the wasteful trucking of material, a lot of which ends up as pulp to Indiana from, say, Florida or California. The very opposite of the “buy local” movement. In many cases you have inserted yourselves in an existing local business that could have dealt with distribution locally. For just one example, I ordered a book from you that was from a library about 80 miles from me, but it had traveled an extra 2000 miles to Indiana and another 2000 miles back. One of the many local booksellers could have handled the book. Your “saved from landfills” figure is also grossly inflated, there were local methods in place to sell these library books in many cases before your firm was created, and most of the created jobs were transferred from other locations. I have nothing against Indiana, in fact I was born there, but please be more honest with yourselves.

]]> http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2009/04/20/april-22-is-earth-day-how-will-you-celebrate/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 melinda Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:06:27 +0000 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/?p=3791#comment-2105 Here in Hokkaido, Japan the snow is finally melting and we are going to dig another compost hole in the garden today. The average home in Hokkaido is required to have 9 different recycling bins to sort domestic waste. It's almost a full time job in itself...but worth it! Here in Hokkaido, Japan the snow is finally melting and we are going to dig another compost hole in the garden today. The average home in Hokkaido is required to have 9 different recycling bins to sort domestic waste. It’s almost a full time job in itself…but worth it!

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