What are the best practices for discussing climate change? Join us to explore effective communication strategies developed through the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (which has been advancing this work for over a decade) and the new National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries. Gain insights from Seeding Action, an initiative aimed at fostering a culture of planetary health action with communities through science centers and museums. Discover how libraries and museums communicate about climate change, its causes, and its solutions. Participants will leave empowered to engage staff, board members, and community members in meaningful conversations that inspire action and foster a proactive response to climate challenges.

Presented by:

• Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (MLS, LEED AP), Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System (NY), Co-founder/Current President, Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI)
• Matt Bollerman, CEO, Hauppauge Public Library, Co-founder/Vice-President, Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI)
• Rose Hendricks, Seeding Action Research Director, Association for Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)

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Related resources and links

• Building Resilient Communities Project
• October 24 webinar, Sustaining ecosystems for climate learning and action
• November 21 webinar, Building community in a changing climate
• Project background reports
• How a health narrative can enhance communication of six key truths about climate change with diverse audiences by John E. Kotcher
• Centering health equity, environmental justice, and climate justice to support communities by Sarah Levin-Lederer and April Wright
• STEM learning ecosystems by Rae Ostman
• Public libraries are critical agencies in multi-sector climate action plans, policies, and actions by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
• National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries
• Sustainable Libraries: Resources and webinars for climate action, 2023
• Sustainable Libraries Initiative
• eNewsletter of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
• Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Triple Bottom Line infographic
• Final Presentations from the Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Resources from the Sustainability Round Table of the American Library Association
• Sustainability and Libraries: ALA and Sustainability
• FEMA, National Risk Index
  
• Seeding Action, ASTC
  
• George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communications and Yale Program on Climate Change Communications
• Climate Change in the American Mind, including Spring 2024 report
  
• Global Warming's Six Americas
• Books by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
• Libraries & sustainability : programs and practices for community impact
• Resilience
• Sustainable thinking : ensuring your library's future in an uncertain world

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• Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World, by Elizabeth Sawin
• Resilience Hubs Support Communities Across the U.S., Homeland Security
• Climate Crew, Climate Resilience Hubs
• Day of Climate, from pK-12 at MIT Open Learning, with curriculum and activities for hands-on library programs
• Librarian’s Disaster Planning and Community Resiliency Guidebook and Workbook, New Jersey State Library
• WebJunction webinar, Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience, part of Sustainable Libraries: Resources and Webinars for Climate Action
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)
• FEMA Recovery Policy (pdf)
• Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist, by Kate Raworth