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!".

Leave No Trace at Charleston County Parks!

Charleston County Parks and Recreation is a member of Leave No Trace: Center For Outdoor Ethics, a non-profit organization which, according to its website, is "an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide."
Click here to visit the Charleston County Parks and Recreation website!

Save a tree and use the online version of the CCPRC events quarterly instead of using a print copy. Click here to read the CCPRC quarterly!

Check out these great kids books from the CCPL catalog about exploring the great outdoors!

Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids Guide, From the Backyard to the Big Woods by Lynn Brunelle

This is Daniel Cook On a Hike (based on the TV series, This Is Daniel Cook)

Outdoor Authors

Jim Arnosky

Jean Craighead George

Gary Paulsen

Roger Tory Peterson

New Outdoor Sports Series for Kids!

*Ultimate Thrill Sports

*Adventures Outdoors

*Outdoor Adventures

Holiday Cheer @ Your Library!

Greening up your holiday can also save you a bundle! Recycling and reusing what you have doesn't have to cost a thing. Reducing things like wrapping paper and other waste is another great way to keep your budget on track and is one of the hottest suggestions on environmental holiday tip lists.

Check out some of these great books and websites to find a number of ways you can make this year's celebration special, budget-friendly, and environmentally conscious!

Books from the CCPL Collection

A Greener Christmas by Sheherazade Goldsmith

Sew It For Christmas by Barbara Weiland

Christmas Doughcrafts by Elisabeth Bang

Organic Crafts by Kimberly Monaghan

Earth Friendly Holidays: How to Make Fabulous Gifts and Decorations From Reusable Objects by George Pfiffner

Earth-Friendly Crafts for Kids: 50 Awesome Things to Make With Recycled Stuff by Heather Smith

Holiday Tips from Environmental Websites

SC Department of Health and Environmental Control

The Sierra Club

The Environmental Defense Fund

Treehugger

The Environmental Protection Agency

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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Earth Day Celebration at Park Circle 2008

A beautiful day, music, food, games, and fun made Charleston County Recycling's Earth Day Festival at Park Circle in North Charleston a fantastic event! I would like to thank The Sanctuary volunteers, Andrea, John, Patrick, and Sarah, that helped out at the CCPL table!

Charleston News and Courier article on 2008 Earth Day Festival at Park Circle

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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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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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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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