The  Sustainability Round Table will offer a $500 travel award to reimburse* a SustainRT member who attends the ALA conference in June 2019.   Applicants should submit a blog post (500 word limit) or a video (2 minutes or less in duration) about the connection between sustainability and libraries. Submissions may be creative and should explore the applicant’s unique vision.

The requirements for the award winner are that they must:

Meet our 2019 candidates:

Uta Hussong-Christian

The election results are in, and we'd like to congratulate the following:

It’s not easy being green. For many of our patrons, environmental action is basically out of the question; solar panels are expensive, electric and hybrid vehicles are costly both up front and in the long term, and even reusable grocery bags cost a couple of bucks. For a patron whose dollar won’t stretch to cover Internet access or books for school, environmental consciousness is, understandably, on the back burner.

K-cups and bottled water will be the death of me!

Thank you for visiting the newly created SustainRT Blog! We have created this blog to help promote the activities of SustainRT and to allow members of SustainRT the opportunity to share how they are promoting sustainability in their libraries and their communities at large.