Recycle This!

I don't know if you've heard but these days recycling is the biggest fad sweeping the nation. It's more awesome then POGS...

Or SPINJAS...

In fact, all the cool kids are doing it.  Especially the ones like me, who spent their lunch breaks and recesses reading fantasy novels in the library.  That's right readers can recycle too!

It's called paperbackswap and it's a website where you exchange old, dearly loved books for crisp sparkling new ones (that have been dearly loved by someone else).  How it works?

   1) You post all your books you have to exchange, and get credit for each book.

   2) People request your books, you print out a label, and mail them off.

   3) You receive credit for each book you mail.

   4) Use credits to request and receive books of your own.  Sent to your door!

There are over 2.5 million books to choose from.  So cool.

And if you're too cool to read these days, too tech minded, or just simply enjoy your kicks in 2 hour or less visual packages, there's swapadvd.com as well!

It's the sister site to paperswap and works pretty much the same way.  There's also swapacd and swap-a-friend!  Ok... I made the last one up.  But there is swapagoat.

So are you interested in entertainment in an environmentally friendly way? I bet all those stacks of books, dvds, and cds are looking pretty good to you right now.  And the best part... it's free.  

So go sign-up and tell 'em Team SuperForest (superforestnyc@gmail.com ) sent you.  Then read-swap-and repeat as needed.  

Always merry and bright,

-jordan

The Superforest Book Club

Speaking of books and Kinship with all life...


This novel is essentially a running dialogue between a (yes, I'm saying this correctly) telepathic gorilla, and an Average Joe Schmoe. If you can get past that odd premise (and it took me a minute to do so), you'll find yourself thrust into an engaging, challenging discourse on the evolution and mythology of mankind and the resultant course we've set for ourselves and our planet.

As silly as it sounds, it's surprisingly refreshing to find yourself put on the spot by a 600 lb gorilla, even if he is fictional.



This book was certainly a mind-opener for me, and for several of the high school students I taught. Even those who disliked seem affected (or at least engaged) by the resulting lively debates. Now I invite you to buy it, read it, and discuss amongst yourself (or here in the comment boards on Superforest!)

Find it here at Amazon. And enjoy!

Always merry and bright!
-jordan