Sheba’s Story Time

Hello Children! My name is Sheba. Someone told me that you want to hear about my special friend, Shubi.
He became known as the Amazing Shubi Bird because he is unlike any other bird in the world.
Sure, there are others that can talk, but Shubi is the smartest, funniest, and bravest of them all, as you are about to see.
There are many stories I could tell you about Shubi, but let me first start at the beginning.
This is how Shubi and his friends were adopted.

Shubi hopes for sustainable book printing in the future

In observance of Earth Day, April 22,here is an interesting article on printing college textbooks and how the environment is affected.

College students purchase about a tree per year in textbooks

Purchasing your textbooks will not only burn a hole in your pocket, but it will also destroy the environment. According to the Green Press Initiative, over the past three years the U.S. book publishing industry has consumed an average of 20 million trees per year to print books sold in just the U.S alone. Publishing companies have become a top contributor to the destruction of forests world wide.

"The global impact of this is rather mind-boggling," says treehugger.com. For instance, if a publisher sells a million copies of a 250-page book it will take 12,000 trees just to produce the necessary amount of books for this one title. By producing new editions of Textbooks every year publishers are destroying the environment to fatten their pockets. Just think about the amount of trees killed to produce enough textbooks for every student at every college & University. It gets worse...

The Green Press Initiative estimates that nearly 40% of the materials found in landfills are paper products. As this paper degrades, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide that eats away at our atmosphere. Each time a student buys a new book they are contributing to these numbers. It's time to make a difference.

Chegg is working together with students and organizations to help improve our environment. Renting your textbooks helps keep books in circulation and ensures that one less new book will need to be printed this year. In addition, for every book a student rents, Chegg will plant a tree in their name. Together we can make a difference, one book at a time.

Chegg is proudly partnered with Eco-Libris

Source http://www.chegg.com/EcoFriendly

Shubi Broom is doing his part by offering his book, “The Amazing Shubi Bird” in a downloadable version for only 3.99. It contains 42 illustrations and 42 pages of easy to read text. Visit www.shubibroom.com today.

Hello friends,
We will be previewing "The Amazing Shubi Bird" over the next several months. We will start at the beginning of the book, and feature a page and a graphic that matches it each week or so. This is to familiarize our readers with the book, and would be a great storytime reading for small children. Hopefully you and your friends will join us.