If you’ve had enough of the consumerism of Valentine’s Day (so maybe Hallmark didn’t invent this celebration or even Mother’s Day, but they certainly enjoy the profits) you can celebrate Library Lover’s Day on 14 February. Libraries have always been eco-minded because they lend books, CDs, DVDs, etc, with many people using the same [...]
Posts Tagged ‘libraries’
Loving Libraries
Posted in Australia, Consumption, tagged carbon emissions, fossil fuel dependence, libraries, passive solar design, saving water, sustainable building on 10 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
Green School Days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Garden, libraries, School, sustainable building, Worldwide on 31 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
Next week school goes back and this reminded me of some sustainable schools I read about last year. I’m a librarian doing research on teenagers’ reading habits so I read School Library Journal. The September 2007 issue had an article on sustainably designed schools Going Green: Eco-friendly Schools by Debra Lau Whelan.
In late 2005, the [...]
Frogs in the park
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, tagged Animals, birds, frogs, landscaping, libraries, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, Water on 5 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was walking with Sheeba the dog through the housing development near my house the other night and although some of the blocks are empty; the roads are asphalt, the empty land is sand, weeds and rubbish and the only water source is garden hoses and water features (feng shui all the way). Despite this [...]
Is there change in the air?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carbon emissions, climate change, Dissent, Energy, government, greenhouse effect, libraries, mass media, sustainable living, Worldwide on 8 March 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m currently replacing my incandescent globes with energy efficient light bulbs. I’ve known about energy efficient light bulbs for a number of years, but never got around to doing anything about it. Last year my uncle was talking about them and after hearing him wax lyrical, I thought I’d better pull my finger out. He [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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