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Top 10 Sustainability-Themed Children’s Books 2022
Each year, the Sustainability Round Table Booklist Committee curates an annual list of 10 notable children’s books on nature, conservation, and communities that reflect the mission of SustainRT “to exchange ideas and opportunities regarding sustainability in order to move toward a more equitable, healthy, and economically viable society." Click below to download the formatted list!
Sustainability Book Review: How to Prepare for Climate Change
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos by David Pogue
Book Review by Kacper Jarecki
Sustainability Book Review: Music for Tigers
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Review: Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman
Top 10 Sustainability-Themed Children’s Books
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Picture Book Picks for Earth Month and Beyond
Whether for sharing at Storytime, reading at home, or even discussing with a group of grown-ups, check out these fantastic and thought-provoking picture books about our world:
Sustainability Book Review: Nature’s Best Hope
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy (Timber Press; 2020)
Sustainability Book Review: The Nature of Nature
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
Sustainability Book Review: Our House is on Fire
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
Sustainability Book Review: Poisoned Water
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
Sustainability Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Book Review by Kacper Jarecki
Sustainability Book Review: City Quitters
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
Sustainability Book Review: The Big Thaw
As a reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will post reviews of books related to sustainability. Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, And A Race To Save The World
By Eric Scigliano, Chris Linder, et al.
Sustainability Book Review: No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
As a new, reoccurring feature on the Sustainability Roundtable blog, we will be posting reviews of books related to sustainability. Enjoy our first review, written by Kacper Jarecki, below! Interested in submitting your own review to the blog? Contact August at aolundsmith@gmail.com.
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
American Libraries Blog Series on Sustainability in Libraries
Beginning in April 2017, "American Libraries" magazine has been publishing an excellent series of online articles on the theme Sustainability in Libraries.
Take a look at the thought provoking articles that have been published so far in this series: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/tag/sustainability-in-libraries/
Re-Localizing the Academic Library: Comments on an essay by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich’s recent essay, “Local Supports Local Sustainability,” (Library Journal, July 11, 2016 http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/07/lj-in-print/local-supports-local-sustainability/ ) offers an idea that I believe is essential not only for the future of libraries, but more generally for a systemic transition to sustainable, resilient communities. Aldrich writes,