by admin | Sep 16, 2022 | Donna Kellion, Environmental awareness, holidays
1. Shout about it! Last week I was so pleased to read an article on the Fifth Estate about how Millennials are driving sustainability through their choices of home buying or building. Sustainability gathers pace with millennials buying homes. If they are buying a new...
by admin | Aug 16, 2022 | Book covers, Environmental awareness, Natasha Allday, recycling, Sustainable Development
Heard of nose-to-tail eating? This involves utilising the entire animal for increased sustainability in agriculture. But how about prologue-to-epilogue, foreword-to-afterword, or even preface to appendix for book usage? Libraries have always championed sustainability....
by admin | Jul 7, 2022 | Beth Barrass, Botanic Gardens, Braille, Children, COVID, Environmental awareness, Families, Green wall, Ipswich, Libraries, Library spaces, Local Government, Mackay, Melbourne Girls’ College, Moonee Valley, Nicola McGeown, Outdoors, Petrina Osborne, Public Libraries, Richmond, Secondary schools, Seeds, Sunshine Coast, Sustainable Development, Waimakariri, Waste Management, Youth
1. Create a garden wall In 2020 Melbourne Girls’ College library saw the outside brought inside with an incredible green garden wall. A survey of students in previous years showed that they really valued the plant life already in the library . The Melbourne Girls’...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | ACT, ALIA, Carbon, Donna Kellion, Libraries, Sustainable Development
Green is the way to go: Sustainability Practises for Your LibraryDr Kasey Garrison, Dr Sabine Wardle and Dr Jane Garner – Charles Sturt University The team, commissioned by ALIA to work on the Greening Libraries Research project, have (and are)...
by admin | Apr 22, 2022 | ALIA SLG, Anne Reddacliff, Climate Change, Trends
Sustainability trends are constantly evolving in response to natural disasters like floods and fires as well as the impact of a global pandemic. Use less plastic, invest in renewables, stop eating meat, start a worm farm… there is so much advice out there it’s hard to...
