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In 2006, about $91 million of carbon offsets were purchased in the voluntary market, representing about 24 million metric tons of CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalents) reductions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset

Tree Neutral® is a commitment to the future of our forests. We work with individuals and companies that want to offset the number of trees they consume by taking proactive steps such as planting trees in direct proportion to the number of trees they use, recycling, converting to electronic records and other methods of tree consumption reduction.


Going Green Winner: Green Business Leader

awarded by the Austin Business Journal, February 16, 2009

Ausin Business Journal recognizes Clint Greenleaf, CEO of Greenleaf Book Group, for launching Tree Neutral® as a way to replace trees used in book printing and general office use.
 

Being Green Isn’t So Hard

article reprinted from the Big Bad Book Blog

According to some estimates, 20 to 30 million trees are harvested each year for paper and paper products, and the US publishing industry is one of the biggest culprits. On average, only about 5% of the paper used by US book publishers comes from recycled paper or paper managed in an environmentally friendly way. What’s wrong with this picture?

Fortunately, some publishers are trying to do better than the average. For example, Simon & Schuster recently announced a new environmental initiative and paper policy with a 2012 goal of deriving 10% of the company’s purchased paper from forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)–an international organization headquartered in Bonn, Germany that sets standards worldwide for responsible forest management.  read more >>