Register now for the webinar "Communicating Sustainability in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Strategies."

This talk by Dr. Jennifer Carmen, Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, will focus on the intersection of sustainability and climate change. It will discuss how climate change adds to new challenges to achieving sustainability, and how action on climate change can support sustainability goals.

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Hello, all SustainRT people!

We are gathering virtually for a pre-Annual Social Hour Tuesday, June 22, 4-5pm CST, and you're invited!

World Sustainable Development Teach-in Day 2020 is December 4^th!

Happy New Year! If you are heading to Philadelphia for ALA Midwinter, we hope to see you at the following SustainRT or sustainability related programs:

1/25, 10:30am in PCC 201 A/B/C, Sustainability Is Now a Core Value. So... Now What? (Event Link)

Put sustainability on your schedule at the ALA! The SustainRT business/membership meeting and programs will be on Sunday 6/24/2018 at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans .

Please use the online conference schedule to verify times and locations

SustainRT Sponsored Programs ALA 2018

Saturday 6/23/2018

Hosted by Online Education and Membership Committees

View the recorded program on the ALA SustainRT YouTube Channel

Thursday May 3rd

12-1 pm pacific, 1-2 pm mountain, 2-3 pm central, 3-4 pm eastern

ZOOM LINK:

https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/269435146

No need to register. All are welcome, not just students.

Did you miss the webinar on March 1st, You Don’t Have to “Go Big” to Make a Difference: How Our Purchasing Choices and Daily Habits Can Build a More Sustainable Society?

Are you planning to attend ALA Midwinter 2018? Make SustainRT part of your conference experience! Please see the conference schedule for locations.

• Saturday, 2/10 @ 3-4pm - Business Meeting
• Saturday, 2/10 @5:30-7:30pm - Social Event!
• Sunday, 2/11 @1-2:30pm - Discussion: Crisis and Community
• Monday, 2/12 @10:30-11:30am - News You Can Use: Sustainability Strategies for Libraries and Communities (Symposium on the Future of Libraries)

Did you miss the webinar on November 9th, 2017, Nine Reasons for Hope in a World Out of Whack, with speaker Ellen Moyer, author of the book Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves: How to Thrive While Creating a Sustainable World?

Nine Reasons for Hope in a World Out of Whack

(Thurs. Nov. 9 12:15-12:45pm EST)

Please join us Thursday, Nov. 9, 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. EST for the Fall 2017 SustainRT webinar.

Our speaker will be Ellen Moyer, author of the book Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves: How to Thrive While Creating a Sustainable World.

View the recorded program on the ALA SustainRT YouTube Channel

Please join us for our next SustainRT webinar on Thursday, 6/8/17 from 12:15-12:45 PM (Eastern).

Bob Doppelt will speak to us on the topic, "Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Well-being."

View a recording of this program on the

ALA SustainRT YouTube Channel

On March 9th, 12:15 – 12:45 PM EST Amy Brunvand will present, "STARS and Beyond: Adventures of an embedded Librarian in the Campus Sustainability Office." To register for the webinar, click here.

David Selden, National Indian Law Library, spoke about the founding of the Committee on Environmental Sustainability under the American Association of Law Libraries. Their activities include a Conference Travel Offset Project and a Resolution on Sustainability in Law Libraries.

We are excited to announce that Bill McKibben will be a featured speaker at ALA Annual 2017!