by admin | Oct 25, 2021 | Events, goals, projects
Much has been happening in the “greening libraries” space in the past few months so it’s time for a bit of a roundup of highlights. IFLA ENSULIB – from SIG to Section Early this year the IFLA ENSULIB SIG (Environment, Sustainability and Libraries) was officially...
by admin | Sep 9, 2021 | Anne Reddacliff, Climate Change, Health, Loss and damage, Sea level rise
For R U OK Day today we’re bringing you five ways to deal with climate anxiety. Climate anxiety is a real thing and it particularly affects young people. We hear figures like Christiana Rivett-Carnac and Tom Figueres present in their book The future we choose, that...
by admin | Aug 27, 2021 | recycling
Weeding magazines and rehoming them It may surprise you to know that as more libraries have their magazines available online, hardcopy magazines have become a rare and valuable commodity. A short while ago my library weeded out some gardening and other magazines, and...
by admin | Jul 12, 2021 | recycling, Waste reduction
It’s Plastic Free July and what better time to talk about recycling. As Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July points out in her book Plastic free, only 9% of plastics ever get recycled. Let’s face it. Recycling can be complicated. Which thing goes in which...
by admin | Jun 26, 2021 | Climate Change, community
It can be a constant challenge to find and maintain any measure of cheerfulness in the face of a seemingly unstoppable avalanche of bad news when it comes to our little blue planet. I am often reminded of various apocalyptic movies where tortured weeping is the only...
