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Climate, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Libraries

by Green | Oct 17, 2024 | Blue Shield Australia, Climate Change, Disaster preparedness, Disaster response, Disaster risk, Disaster Risk Management, Disaster risk reduction, Health, Human rights, Libraries, Loss and damage, Resilience, Social conditions, Youth, Zola Maddison | 0 Comments

Be Prepared. Be Resilient. International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction - Are you Ready 2024, United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024 As we close out International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) and look ahead to Australia’s summer...

3 ways to be ‘green’ in the Children’s and Youth space

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 | 0 Comments

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...

5 favourite ways to combat climate anxiety

by admin | Sep 9, 2021 | Anne Reddacliff, Climate Change, Health, Loss and damage, Sea level rise | 0 Comments

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...