Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Rent a textbook, plant a tree!

I'm running around trying to find cheap textbooks for college, and Kevin came across the Chegg.com website. Book rental for the semester! Yay! So we rented a book for Max for the fall and here is the email we received:

Hello Max,

In case you didn't know, you are helping plant 1 tree(s) since you ordered 1 book(s) from Chegg.com!

Share with your friends on Facebook that you planted 1 tree(s).



Is that cool or what! Go ahead - feel good about helping the planet.

Every year, more than 20 million trees are cut to produce books. It gets worse. Only 50% of the tree is used in creating paper for your textbooks. Of course, we need books, so at a minimum, we need to plant what we take out - a little thank you to Mother Nature.

Even though publishers can produce multiple books with one tree, we will plant a tree for every rental since we have a lot of catching up to do. We are partnering with organizations in the US and across the world to have trees planted.

We make every attempt to source used books or books made from recycled paper for your rental to save the environment, while taking care they are in good condition for your use.


So, how cool is that?! Tree planting, recycling, learning, and saving the planet all at once. Yay Chegg! Go now, get your books, plant trees :)

2 comments:

Tammy said...

Gosh, I wish they had that when I went to college. I love that thye are planting a tree for every book rented. Whata great company. Standing O to U.

Lisa Abdul-Quddus said...

That's awesome. I'll be sure to pass on the link.

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