Well, I’m a day late, but it’s with much heart and soul that I bid you all HAPPY EARTH DAY! Earth Day started more than 30 years ago on April 22nd, 1970 in my adopted hometown of San Francisco. It has grown into a worldwide phenomenon, which makes sense since it’s celebrating the beauty and wonder of our home planet.

However, Earth Day also carries with it a warning–we’ve only got one planet, so we better treat her right! Living in harmony with the environment is a noble goal. And it has always bugged me that I work in the publishing industry…an industry that uses tons of paper.

In honor of Earth Day, I’m going to give a shout out to one of the most ecological developments in the entire publishing industry: eBooks! Sure, it still costs some energy to create an eBook and view it on a Kindle or Nook. But compared to the amount of paper we use to print libraries of paper books, I’m a big proponent of digital books.

What do you think about books, publishing and ecology? Can you share some tips to conserve and preserve for readers, authors and publishers?