Climate Action Week

What is it?

Climate Action Week: Libraries and Communities Acting Together is a chance for libraries to showcase, talk about and encourage environmentalism.

Library materials

Try these subject headings, electronic resources, or check with reference staff for more materials:

• Environmentalism
• Environmental protection — Citizen participation.
• Sustainable living.
• Waste minimization.
• Climate change mitigation.
• Clothing mending/repair
• Salvage/upcycling
• Bee culture

Electronic Resources

• Check out GreenFILE, database for scholarly and general-interest articles on environmentalism.
• Get green tips all year long from OverDrive Magazines, check out Mother Earth News, Pip & ABC Organic Gardener
• Educate yourself about the state of the natural world with documentaries from Kanopy Streaming Films, suggested topics include: Environmental Sciences, Agriculture & Geology, Zoology.
• Also check out Kanopy’s curated collection of films focused on the environment.
• Need green design ideas for your outdoor living spaces? Visit Home Improvement Reference Center and click the Outdoor button to check out the projects.
• Check out Fine Gardening magazine from our Flipster collection. Also in the collection, the April editions of OWL and ChickaDEE Magazines are all about Earth Day, featuring eco-hacks and going green.
• Bring the serenity of the outside world indoors with Nature Sounds, from Naxos Music Library.

Booklists

• ORL Reads Climate Action with BC's Libraries

Additional Resources

Environment and Climate Change Canada  - Government of Canada’s department responsible for coordinating environmental policies and programs, as well as preserving and enhancing the natural environment and renewable resources.

United Nations Climate Change - The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change.

Fridays For Future - or FFF, is a youth-led and -organized global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate.  Along with other groups across the world, Fridays for Future is part of a hopeful new wave of change, inspiring millions of people to act on the climate crisis, and we want you to become one of us!

Local Environmental groups in the Okanagan

These groups focus on aspects such as trail maintenance, watersheds, parklands, wilderness conservation and education. They also look for volunteers.

• Alan Brooks Nature Center
• Central Okanagan Land Trust
• Central Okanagan Naturalists Club
• Environmental Education Centre for the Okanagan (EECO)
• Okanagan Basin Water Board
• Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship Society