{"id":2069,"date":"2011-10-31T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2011-10-31T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:01:04","slug":"promoting-sustainability-through-better-world-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/promoting-sustainability-through-better-world-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Sustainability through Better World Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @font-face {   font-family: \"Times\"; }@font-face {   font-family: \"Cambria\"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }p.xmsonormal, li.xmsonormal, div.xmsonormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } --><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2011\/10\/BetterWorldBooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2072\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2011\/10\/BetterWorldBooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>The library promotes sustainability by recycling books we no longer need through a socially conscious redistributor.\u00a0 The books which have a useful life outside the library are sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworldbooks.com\/info.aspx\">Better World Books<\/a> for resale or redistribution. Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide, which was named <em>BusinessWeek<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cl.exct.net\/?ju=fe63137375630c7c7516&amp;ls=fdee157071610c7b7c157872&amp;m=fefb1176746503&amp;l=febf157473630d78&amp;s=fe3615737764077d761079&amp;jb=ffcf14&amp;t=\">Most Promising Social Venture<\/a> with 36 percent of the vote out of 25 semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>To this point, Puget Sound has saved the equivalent of 55 40\u2019 tall trees!\u00a0 In the last 4 months, we earned over $260 to spend on new materials for the students and faculty of Puget Sound.\u00a0 Another positive aspect of recyling this way is that we automatically donate a portion of the resale money to Room to Read, a not-for-profit project which works mostly in India, Africa and Asia to promote education and reading in children. Additionally, for those materials not accepted by Better World Books, we are working with the university\u2019s facilities department to send them to a local recycler which either resells them or converts them to paper pulp for reuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library promotes sustainability by recycling books we no longer need through a socially conscious redistributor.\u00a0 The books which have a useful life outside the library are sent to Better World Books for resale or redistribution. Better World Books collects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/promoting-sustainability-through-better-world-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}