Affiliates help save the world! You buy one book, we plant one tree

We saw last week how affiliate schemes can help you make some money (e.g. Amazon adds on Dan's blog). However affiliate schemes can do more than this, they can help us focus a groups towards a common goal that makes the world a better place.

A bit to vague? let me give you an example.
Offsetbooks.com is an Amazon affiliate. The site is essentially a store front for Amazon. All product info, pricing, payments, processing and delivery is handled by Amazon. This means you get exactly the same deal on offsetbooks.com as you would get on Amazon. However when you buy a book on offsetbooks.com, Amazon pays them a small referral fee and offsetbooks.com uses that fee to plant trees in Africa.

So next time you buy a book, you can actually make a small difference !