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Take heed, environmentally conscious students (and parents)! You're indeed a growing force—entire colleges are now graded on how green they can get—educated, active, and vocal in and about the modern green movement. And while you have our utmost respect for spreading the word and taking action on the eco-front, we still have to ask: how green are your study habits?
E-books are green
Not too long ago, the eco-friendly option was either borrowing texts from the library, or buying used books and selling them back at the end of the semester. But thanks to our old pal the Internet, the e-book option is gaining traction as the greenest there is. (Of course, you're still using electricity while you read an e-book, but the resources used in the production and shipping of paperbound texts is far greater)
Enter iChapters
And that's where iChapters www.ichapters.com comes in—not only do they offer a wide selection of discounted e-books and offer chapter-only purchases, but now they're spearheading a Plant a Tree Drive as well.
Plant a Tree Drive
It's pretty simple: sign up to be their fan on iChapter's Facebook page, and they'll plant a tree. Take a 10 question environmental quiz on the site, and they'll plant another. The questions range from interesting to inane, from engaging to straight-up self advertising. It's quick, and it's for a good cause (and it seemed to me that the tree planting counter went up for every 10 questions I answered—looks like I planted three trees today). Also, iChapters will be giving away $1,000 in scholarship money to one of the Facebook fans at random.
So help iChapters reach its goal of 100,000 trees planted, and try to study green.
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