Description: In a world of overwhelming pessimism regarding climate change and sustainable practices, libraries have all the tools necessary to lead our communities forward on these issues. Recent reports from the United Nations and the US Government indicate that our economy is not shifting fast enough to mitigate the dire consequences we are already seeing due to climate change like severe weather, food insecurity and civil unrest. How can we stay focused and maximize our assets in the community to solve these issues? What global trends should libraries consider when designing their localized plans? Library leaders need to be empowered to serve as catalysts and conveners that help local communities help themselves.
Notes: Libraries are ground zero for hope. Hope lives in taxpayers that believe libraries are integral to our future. Libraries are beacons of hope. Libraries provide a realistic optimism based in hope.
Libraries are working on being
sustainable as institutions, as well as help the world be sustainable. For this to occur, libraries need to create sustainable practices.
How
does your library building work? Are you using the building in a
sustainable way? What is the system in which your building is embedded?
Can you affect that system so it is more sustainable?
Voting is the greenest thing you can do and it affects the policies that help us be sustainable.
The
catalyst for Sustainability happens at the top and at the bottom of
organizations. In China, the change is occurring through children, a
bottom up approach. Can we impact the curriculum in our schools to
teach sustainable living?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is training preparedness ambassadors and they want to work with libraries.
ALA has added sustainability as a core value of librarianship. That means that new MSLIS students will be thinking about it as part of their learning.
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