Grinnell's Green Secrets.

The article presents information about a bookstore in Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The bookstore sells an array of eco-friendly notepads bound in cardboard from Budweiser and cereal boxes and filled with pages of used photocopy paper, blank on one side and printed on the other with a confection of essay drafts and academic writings. The only new parts are the backs and plastic comb-style binders. Two student groups, the Grinnell College Environmental Action Group and Free the Planet, produce the notepads as a way of reusing paper, which students consume in prodigious amounts. The used paper comes from marked "green boxes," in which students deposit their one-sided printouts for use in the notebooks. The environmental group discards any papers with questionable content. Cassie Wherry, manager of the bookstore, says the full run of about 200 notepads sells out every year for $2.99 and $3.49 apiece. They are very popular because they are so unique, she says. Visitors especially enjoy them. And one can look through the pages and see what's printed on the back.