Libraries are catalysts and conveners for climate action in our communities. This webinar will feature practitioners who are having a collective impact through collaborations with others in the community, to address the pressing challenges related to climate change. Join these practitioners to hear practical ideas for how to ensure that good intentions have a positive impact on our communities.

Presented by:

• Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (MLS, LEED AP), Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System (NY), Co-founder/Current President, Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI), and author
• Jenny Garmon, Civic Engagement Specialist, Kansas City Public Library (MO)
• Gabrielle Griffis, Assistant Youth Services Librarian, Brewster Ladies’ Library & Blue Marble Librarian (MA)
• M'Balu "Lu" Bangura, Chief of Equity and Fair Practice at the Enoch Pratt Free Library & Maryland State Library Resource Center

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Related resources and links

• New Sustainability topic area on WebJunction
• Sustainability in Libraries: A Call to Action (pdf)
• Six Pillars of Climate Justice, Center for Climate Justice
• Center for the Future of Libraries on Collective Impact
• Collective Impact by John Kania & Mark Kramer, Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Fix It Yourself: Repair events at the library promote sustainable living, by Gabrielle Griffis, American Libraries
• Brewster Ladies’ Library announcement and short video of Fixit Clinic
• Video inviting volunteers for the Fixit event
  
• Boomerang Bags at Brewster Ladies’ Library and info on Boomerang Bags
  
• Info from Repair Cafe.org and Fixit Clinic
• Reduce Waste, Build Community: Hosting Repair Events at Your Library, WebJunction webinar
• Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist
• Books on sustainability and repair
• Repair revolution : how fixers are transforming our throwaway culture, by John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight
  
• 25 ready-to-use sustainable living programs for libraries, by Ellyssa Kroski
• Libraries & sustainability : programs and practices for community impact, edited by René Tanner, Adrian K. Ho, Monika Antonelli, and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
• How public libraries build sustainable communities in the 21st century, edited by Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield and Bharat Mehra
• Blue Marble Librarians
• Blog
• On Facebook
• On X
• On Instagram
• Enoch Pratt Free Library
• 100% free grocery store opening in spring
• Project ENCORE
• Amplified Voices Series
• Kansas City Public Library
• Tap In Center
• Next City article, How an Experimental Service in a Library Prevents Incarceration
• Clear My Record Missouri
• About Living Room Conversations
• Preparedness Calendar, Ready.gov
  
• Additional links shared in chat
• Asset Based Community Development or ABCD from the Tamarak Institute
• Glendale Library Arts + Culture (CA) has some really fab intergnerational repair events. They include a Volunteer sign up too.
• Climate Aware Therapist Directory
  
• Eco-Motion, Canadian network of psychologists working with a focus on environmental psychology
• Saving us : a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world, by Katharine Hayhoe
• Nobody Asked Me
• Abodes Joy, an organization that teaches women how to do home repairs - an example of a type of group to reach out to for fix-it clinic volunteers.
• The Resilient Activist

• Sustainable Libraries: Resources and Webinars for Climate Action
• Read Sustainability 101, the first article
  
• Read Getting Started with Climate Action Planning, the second article
  
• Read Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience, the third aricle
• Read Climate Justice, the fourth aricle
• Read Programs that Walk the Talk, the fifth article
  
• Reading Lists on WorldCat.org compiled by Sustainable Libraries Inititative
• Essential Reads
• Environmental Justice
• Eco-Literacy for Kids
• Books for Youth Climate Activists
• Climate Fiction Starter Pack
• OCLC's Distinguished Seminar Series with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich: Sustainability—A Call to Action for the Library Community
• Road Map to Sustainability
• eNewsletter of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
• Sustainable Library Certification Program
• 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

Other webinars in the series

Sustainability 101
Recording now available

Climate Action Planning (Part 1): An Introduction
Recording now available

Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience
Recording now available

Climate Justice
Recording now available

Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk
Recording now available