Great Earth Day Links From CCPL's Website of the Week!

CLICK HERE to check out CCPL's Websites of the Week for April 12th through 18th; they're all about Earth Day!

Click here to see all of CCPL's Websites of the Week!

April 18th, 2009 - Check Out CCPL at the Charleston County Recycling's Earth Day Celebration at Park Circle

Charleston County Recycling is hosting another Earth Day celebration at Park Circle in North Charleston on Saturday, April 18th, from 11 AM to 3 PM. Stop by the Charleston County Public Library for crafty fun or just to say, "Hi!".

Sunday, September 28th: Charleston Green Fair

Join Charleston County Public Library at the Charleston Green Fair on Sunday, September 28th, 2008 for some environmentally-friendly fun! The Charleston Green Fair will be held at Marion Square in downtown Charleston (corner of Calhoun and King Streets) from 1 PM to 6 PM. There will be live music, exhibits, and children's area with lots of fun activities for the kids!

The CCPL booth will be located in the children's area of the festival and will feature storytime read-alouds, displays of environmental books for kids and adults from the library's collection, library card sign-up (September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month), and more! Stop by and say hello and see just how green our library is!

Mayor Riley endorses the Charleston Green Fair!

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Environmental Series for Children

Charleston County Public Library has a great selection of children's nonfiction series on environmental issues!

Click to see more!

Earth Friends

Our Environment

Early Bird Earth Science

Infosearch

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Random News Flashes

**Slow Foods get a boost from the SC Department of Agriculture. Check out their website promoting Certified South Carolina (grown) produce. (click here) This site includes lists of seasonal fruits and vegetables, useful links, recipes, and more.

**List of Local Farmer's Markets - April 8, 2008 from the Post and Courier (http://www.charleston.net)

**On Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, The Parent's Journal on SC Educational Radio Network reviewed the book, Camp Out! The Ultimate Kids Guide by Lynn Brunelle, author and Emmy-winning television writer for Bill Nye, the Science Guy. This book has lots of great ideas for natural and/or science-oriented fun like having kids put old socks on over their shoes and walk around in the woods and then wetting the socks and sprouting the seeds on the socks. Click here for a review of this book from a book review blog.

We are putting in a request for purchase for this one at our library! Remember, that if you are a patron of Charleston County Public Library, you can ask the library to purchase books, movies, music, etc, too.

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Greener, Better: Health Info @ Your Library

Thinking about taking "green" to a personal level and making changes in diet and exercise? Want to know more about how to do it and maximize the health benefits? The Charleston County Public Library provides library users with access to top-of-the-line health information through the CCPL Electronic Resource Databases. These databases are also available at home, paper-free, via the internet and provide different selections of information to meet the varying needs of library users. This is the real deal, so don't rely on questionable sources like Google and Wikipedia, let CCPL provide you with access to the best information available!

(Click here for database access information.)
(CLICK HERE to go to the Health and Medicine Databases)

Here are descriptions of a few of the databases:

Hands on Health provides health information specifically for South Carolinians.

The Health and Wellness Center provides health reference information for the general user about diseases and conditions, alternative medicine, and other health topics, and includes a dictionary and a directory of high quality health websites.

The Health Reference Center Academic database allows you to take charge of your health by accessing information from the same academic research sources used by medical providers like Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Lancet, and others.

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Naturalists: Environmental Explorers

Naturalists are scientists who study the world around us. Rachel Carson of Pennsylvania and John Muir of California are two of America's most famous naturalists. Some famous naturalists who studied South Carolina's flora and fauna in colonial times were William Bartram, Mark Catesby, and John James Audubon. They observed the beautiful native birds of South Carolina including the Carolina Parakeet and the Passenger Pigeon, which are both extinct today but which can be seen in mounted form at the Charleston Museum.

Two famous modern naturalists from South Carolina are Anne Worsham Richardson, a modern day painter of birds and flowers like Bartram, Catesby, Audubon, and Rudy Mancke, educator and host of SC Educational Television's Naturescene program.

Picture above: Passenger Pigeons by John James Audubon. From http://www.environ.sc.edu/Mancke%20bio.htm. Accessed 5/30/08.
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Current Information + Environmental Friendliness = CCPL Electronic Databases!

Scientific knowledge about environmental issues is rapidly growing and changing. One of the hottest, most controversial topics in this field is the theory of "global warming". This theory is constantly being debated and scientificly tested with new issues, changes, and challenges emerging all the time.

Stay on top of the "global warming" debate and other environmental issues from the comfort of your home by using the CCPL electronic databases! Electronic databases are green because they are paperless and because most of the databases are enabled for home-access with a CCPL library card, which saves library patrons time and the transportation cost of traveling to the library. They are also extremely current because they are updated so frequently and are very user-friendly. (Click here for database access instructions)

(Click here to go to CCPL's Ask-A-Question Services link
for help with CCPL electronic resources and all your other reference needs!)

Some databases to check out for current info on global warming and other issues are the Science databases and the Magazines, Newspapers, and Journals databases.

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April 19th, 2008, Earth Day Celebration at Park Circle

Charleston County Solid Waste and Recycling's annual Earth Day celebration will be held Saturday, April 19th, 2008, from 11 AM to 3 PM. Stop by the Charleston County Public Library table and say hello!

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS!

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Giving a Hoot: Anti-Pollution Campaigns

Anti-pollution campaigns have been bringing environmental issues, like the dangers caused by pollution to living creatures and ecosystems, to the forefront of the American conscious through popular media for over half a century.

Famous Anti-Pollution Campaigns Slogans (click links for more info)

Don't be a litter bug. - Created in 1952 by the Pennsylvania Resource Council, the PRC allowed this slogan (and the litterbug character) to be used in an anti-litter campaign by the National Council of State Garden Clubs.

Keep America Beautiful - Anti-pollution organization formed in 1953 whose name is also a slogan. - History

Give A Hoot: Don't Pollute - 1970 US Forest Service slogan spoken by the character, "Woodsy Owl". Woodsy's current message is, "Lend a hand. Care for the land." Woodsy is Smokey the Bear's anti-litter counterpart.

People start pollution. People can stop it. (1971 Earth Day ad from KAB)

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1970 Woodsy Owl public service announcement from YouTube


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1971 "Crying Indian" People Cause Pollution PSA from YouTube

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Image of Native American actor, Iron Eyes Cody, in the famous, 1971 "crying Indian" Earth Day Ad from Keep America Beautiful from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:People_Start_Pollution_-_1971_Ad.jpg. Accessed 3/24/08.

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The Greening of the White House

Some US presidents and First Ladies who have championed environmental causes and the preservation of US lands and monuments include:

+Theodore Roosevelt - Established the National Park System

+John F. Kennedy - After reading Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, appointed his science advisor, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, to study the risks of pesticide use in the USA. The resulting study, "The Use of Pesticides", issued in May, 1963, called for limitations in the use of some pesticides and was the first step toward the eventual ban of DDT use in the United States.

+Lyndon Baines Johnson -Sponsored the America the Beautiful Inititive, which included The White House Conference on Natural Beauty and the Highway Beautification Act

+Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of Lyndon Baines Johnson - Was a major player in the 1965 Highway Beautification campaign and championed the preservation of America's wildflowers.

+Richard M. Nixon established the Environmental Protection Act.

+Gerald Ford continued the legacy of presidental support for environmental issues. Ford signed the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976, a law designed to control the proliferation of lethal, manufactured chemical substances in the USA.

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Green Documentaries @ Your Library!

Check out a documentary film on environmental issues at your library!

No matter whether the film supports or challenges your personal beliefs, one thing is clear: sharing DVDs and books and other library materials with fellow library patrons rather than buying individual copies is a greener, more environmentally conscious way to keep up with hot topics like green and/or organic living, global warming, and wildlife conservation. Libraries are naturally green!

Feature Documentary Films

Who Killed the Electric Car? (film website)

An Inconvenient Truth (film website)

Koyaanisqatsi = Life Out of Balance - An artistic take on environmental issues with a soundtrack by composer, Phillip Glass.

Nova Television Special

Dimming the Sun (WGBH Nova Program website)

More Hot Green Topics on DVD

Global Warming

Conservation

Environment

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All About Earth Day

Earth Day was first celebrated the United States in 1970. It was started by Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin.

Earthday is now celebrated worldwide. According to the Earth Day website (http://www.earthday.net/) over 1 billion people will celebrate on April 22, 2008.

Earth Day FAQs from the Earth Day Network - http://www.earthday.net/about/faq.aspx

History of Earth Day from Envirolink - http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html

NOAA Earth Day 2005 image from http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/images/earthday2005.jpg. Accessed 3/23/08

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Random Online Lowcountry Greenness

Here are few interesting local "green" websites to consider if you are looking for ways to go green or if you are already green and want to kick it up a notch!

Charleston County Solid Waste and Recycling Home Page- Get the facts on recycling in Charleston County.RECYCLING INFO FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY

Coastal Conservation League - http://coastalconservationleague.org/

Go Green Charleston - a blog/directory of Green resources in the Charleston, SC, area - http://www.gogreencharleston.org/

The Little Green Bag Project - local inititive to promote using reusable grocery bags - http://www.littlegreenbagproject.com/

For more "greenness" from our del.icio.us links,

CLICK HERE for "environmentalism" websites!

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Rachel Carson: Green Pioneer

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964), a biologist and nature writer, published Silent Spring in 1962. This groundbreaking, well-documented book revealed that widespread environmental devastation was being caused by unchecked use of chemical pesticides (Carson called them "biocides") in post-WWII United States. The furor and controversy over the issues raised by Silent Spring triggered federal inquiries into the impact of pesticide use. It also gave birth to the environmental movement.

Rachel Carson's work stressed the importance of remembering that all living things are part of the same web of life. What effects one part of that web will also impact the whole. Forty-six years after the publication of Silent Spring, this is still one of the main themes of current environmental thinking.

Rachel Carson Tribute website - http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Rachel Carson in Time Magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century

CCPL Research Database Articles

(click here for database access instructions - after clicking on article and logging into databases use the "back" arrow to come back to this blogpost and then click on article link to read article.)

Children - Rachel Carson - Kids Infobits

Teens - Rachel Carson article from Sirs Knowledge Source

Adults - Rachel Carson Biography from Biography Resource Center

Note: CCPL's Research Tools electronic databases provide library patrons with paper-free, current informational resources that are accessable from anywhere with internet access; home, office, or school.

Check out the CCPL Ask-A-Question Services for even more "away from the library" reference help!

Picture of Rachel Carson from http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/whatsnew/events/carson/agenda.cfm. Accessed 3/23/08.

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Check Out Something Green!

Green is the color for environmentalism. Look for green goodness @ your library!

Click here for some GREEN selections from the CCPL Catalog

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