Lafayette Bookstore in CA has had to close its bricks-and-mortar store, but will keep on trucking as the Bay Area Bookmobile.
“Big Blue” is a bookmobile that was decommissioned from the Ypsilanti (MI) District Library and was acquired and driven to the Bay Area during the week of June 20. The store is having a Saying Goodbye to the Brick-and-Mortar Party Thursday evening that will include “a ritual marking our move from the old to the new–we’re doing a bucket brigade to move all the books from the new section of the bookstore into the bookmobile.”
The store will have Lafayette Book Store and Bay Area Bookmobile Facebook pages and continue sending out the newsletter. As owner Dave Simpson wrote: “We’ll be active there with a schedule of appearances, announcements of author signings and events, and as always, our book recommendations (and you can offer your own!). Come join the conversation!”
Carbon footprint
So what is the carbon footprint of driving a bookstore around?
almost 0
almost 0 – it is a solar vehicle but can also run on biodiesel
And the carbon footprint of building it in the first place?
Easy to forget that