From Green Right Now Reports
Chegg.com, the online textbook rental site, has been helping the environment by planting a tree for every book rented, sold or bought this tear. The company announced today that it has reached more than one million trees planted in 2009 through a partnership with the American Forests’ Global ReLeaf program.
Chegg is celebrating the milestone by having its one-millionth renter, Jarrett Crisp, a junior from Hill College in Burleson, Texas, plant the tree at a wildfire restoration project in the Tahoe National Forest near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., next spring.
By some estimates, more than 20 million trees are cut each year to make new books, so Chegg has built a brand that encourages students to help replenish and protect the environment by renting, reusing and recycling their textbooks. Since 2007 when the partnership with American Forests began, Chegg has planted more than 3,000 acres of forests.
