Not only are the vast majority of the books we've published at Lantern (we're signatories to the Green Press Initiative) printed on 100 percent recycled paper (often New Leaf), but we're committed to trying to help out the green-ers of the world in print.

Just in time for Earth Day, Planetwalker from John Francis arrives in our warehouse. It's the extraordinary story of how one man responded to an oil spill by taking a vow of silence and refusing any oil-based transportation system for seventeen years, while he walked across the States in mute protest.

By way of more inspiration, check out David Kidd's Growing America, Wangari Maathai's The Green Belt Movement, The Green Bible by Stephen Scharper and Hilary Cunningham, and Consciousness in Action by Andrew Beath. If that ain't enough, you might want to explore becoming an effective activist with Josephine Bellaccomo's Move the Message and find out from Pam Rice's 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian why going vegetarian is about the greenest thing you can do. Kermit was wrong: It's easy being green . . . and you don't have to eat flies, either!