The Green Chain is now available in a bookstore near you… Nope… Not a DVD store (news on that coming soon)… bookstores… Here’s the scoop!

The Green Chain — Nothing is Ever Clear Cut… a new BOOK by Mark Leiren-Young

“I love trees and I love this book.” Vanessa Farquharson, author of Sleeping Naked is Green

Tzeporah Berman… BC’s controversial eco-warrior and one of the founders of PowerUp Canada and ForestEthics.

Ken Wu from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

The unsinkable Betty K… Betty Krawczyk… the granny who keeps going to jail to save our trees.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki… Canada’s second generation activist.

Avram Lazar…  president and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada

Jackson Davies… the Beachcomber’s Beachcomber.

John Vaillant… Author of The Golden Spruce.

Here’s what people are saying about The Green Chain — Nothing is Ever Clear Cut:

Bruce Lourie (Author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck) “The Green Chain is a fascinating, compassionate and humourous account of the characters that make forest issues in BC so lively and relevant for all of us.  One can’t help but be enriched by the people in this book and the stories they tell.”

Joel Bakan (author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power) ”Through the most subtle, yet powerful, form of social commentary—letting people speak for themselves—Leiren-Young weaves an informative, and at times moving, narrative that will inspire thought and action for years to come.”

Vanessa Farquharson (author of Sleeping Naked is Green) ”An enlightening and inspiring collection of stories that touches on every aspect of Canada’s forest industry.”

To help promote The Green Chain — Nothing is Ever Clear Cut…

Here are a few easy things you can do to help spread the word (that I borrowed from the people at DeSmogblog from their promo of Climate Cover Up (which you should also be reading!):

1. REVIEW: Write a review on Chapters/Indigo and/or Amazon. Apparently this has a huge impact on online sales. If you don’t have time to write a review, click and give it a great rating!

2. BLOG: If you have a blog, write about The Green Chain. If you don’t have a blog, please send this on to any bloggers you might know who would be interested.

3. TWEET: Post a link on your Twitter account and spread the word.

4. BUY EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS OR CHANAKAH: The mall decorations are already up so somebody must have started Christmas shopping…

5. FACEBOOK: Write a status update, message your Facebook friends about the book or steer them to The Green Chain Gang! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2432201101&ref=ts

Thanks again to everyone who helped make the movie The Green Chain and who helped support the podcast series, which is how the book came to exist…