Read about sustainability best practices and eco-friendly lifestyle for students. Useful tips and ideas for you to try!
Black Friday is coming soon—the annual shopping extravaganza where we’re expected to join millions of people rushing to stores and websites to get the best deals on electronics, clothing, books, and more. Have you ever thought about the environmental consequences of our consumerism?
Read more > “Tree-mendous Green Friday at BooksRun”Are you ready for the confusion and chaos of Black Friday? Or have you decided to stay away from frantic and needless spending and choose a sustainable alternative? This Green Friday, you can join us on a sustainable shopping trip!
Read more > “Let’s Turn Black Friday Green!”Upcycling is a path we can take to use excess and disposed materials while saving energy and raw materials and expressing ourselves. It is one of the coolest sustainability trends many brands have already incorporated. In this article, we will highlight this rapidly growing industry and take a look at several brands that promote mindful production and consumption.
Read more > “Upcycling—How Brands Give Waste a Second Chance”Black Friday is coming, but this time, more and more people and companies are no longer excited about it. Green Friday announces a new era of conscious consumption and suggests a different approach on that same day.
Read more > “Green Is the New Black—Make an Impact, not Another Purchase”On average, a student like you uses eight textbooks per academic year—depending on the major, of course. It all amounts to… well, more than 30 expensive books proudly occupying your shelves. And you can definitely feel the burden of that knowledge when figuring out what to do next with all these books. Of course, you can’t just dump them in the general waste bin. You need to know how to recycle textbooks.
Read more > “How to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Textbooks: A Guide to a Sustainable Life”BooksRun is a company whose mission is to make our world, education, and learning culture more sustainable. We care about sustainability of our operations and also encourage this eco-friendly approach among you, our friends, and our customers! Here, we’ll unpack all the sustainability principles that drive our company. Join us, and let’s go green together!
Read more > “News about BooksRun Sustainability Principles and Green Initiatives”We have become quite conscious about the impact of our daily activities on the ecosystem: we are trying to implement new ways to reduce our footprint, plastic usage, natural resource extraction, and so on. But what is the situation with sustainable book publishing? Are books and college textbooks sustainable at all? Or should we all switch to digital alternatives?
Read more > “Sustainable Book Publishing: How to Print and Read Eco-Friendly”The general availability of e-commerce has increased our everyday convenience: we can shop across the states and the whole world, we can easily reach out to local producers, the ordered items are delivered to our doorstep, and we can rely on various postal companies to take care of our private shipments. But as always, we should be aware of the downfalls of this often corruptive convenience and act sustainably.
Read more > “Sustainable Packaging Solutions for Everyone”We live in a time when forests disappearing in a week and floods destroying towns and villages become the norm of our life. Here at BooksRun, we care about our planet and we want to make sure that we pass our planet to our grandchildren in a decent state — that’s why we partner with ONETREEPLANTED. Bearing this in mind, we launched our BooksRun Loyalty program to support you, our dear readers, in going green since buying, renting or selling used books is a way to minimize the deforestation and carbon footprint. Below you will find information on how to earn points and what you will get if you sign up for our Let’s Go Green Together Initiative.
Read more > “BooksRun Loyalty Program”As you know, BooksRun is very concerned about what is happening with our planet. Every little thing that helps to protect the natural habitats of rare species of flora and fauna, reduce the carbon footprint, or recycle materials back into a new product’s life cycle makes us happy and proud! Our sustainability beliefs are reflected in our daily work: we advocate for reusing textbooks in order to minimize the effect of deforestation and we also support OneTree Planted Charity to multiply the number of trees planted every day. Let’s go green together with BooksRun Loyalty Program! If you want to contribute to the mentioned below trends of adopting sustainable policies and lifestyles, you can check out these sustainable packaging solutions! They’re so easy to implement but incredibly helpful in the long run.
Below we summarized recent good news for all the sustainable enthusiasts out there. Read more > “Update on Sustainability in the World”
