Happy Earth Day @ Your Library!

Check out these great green reads at your Charleston County Public Library!

Children

*J O' Connor - Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day by Jane O'Connor

J 333.9542 Forier - Endangered Animals by Elise Forier (We Both Read Beginning Reader Series)

J 363.7 Mckay - True Green: 100 Things You Can Do To Save the Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin

J 363.7392 Sechrist - Air Pollution by Darren Sechrist (Saving Our World Series)

J 363.73874 Rockwell - Why Are All the Ice Caps Melting? The Dangers of Global Warming by Anne Rockwell

Teens

Y Greenwald - My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald

Y Hiaasen - Scat by Carl Hiaasen

Y 333.72 Sivertsen - Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life by Linda Sivertsen

Y 597.92 Hickman - Turtle Rescue by Pamela Hickman (Firefly Animal Rescues Series)

Adults

261.88 Gottlieb - A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future by Roger Gottlieb

333.7 Goleman - Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything by Daniel Goleman

363.7 Humes - Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet by Edward Humes

635.0484 Lovejoy - Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide to Creating Your Own Beautiful, Easy-Care Garden by Ann Lovejoy

Coming Soon - Do One Green Thing: Save the Earth Through Simple Everyday Choices by Mindy Pennybacker

Sunday, September 27th, 2009: South Carolina Green Fair in Marion Square

Check out the CCPL table at the 2009 South Carolina Green Fair this Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at Marion Square! Visit the Green Fair website for all the details at http://www.charlestongreenfair.com/.

Go Local

Charleston County Public Library's Websites of the Week offers some great links for info on local and organic food. CLICK HERE to check it out!

There is also a movement here in Charleston to encourage locals to buy goods and services from locally owned businesses called the Lowcountry Local First (CLICK for Charleston City Paper Article) (CLICK for Post and Courier Article). Lowcountry Local First is starting a grassroots movement called the 10 Percent Shift to get consumers in the Charleston area to buy at least 10 percent of their purchases from local businesses. Doing business locally has positive environmental impact because it reduces transportation costs and helps the local economy by creating more jobs here in the Lowcountry.*

CLICK here to visit Lowcountry Local First's website at http://www.lowcountrylocalfirst.org/.

*For help with job seeking, career building tips, money management tools, and information about local economic resources like social service agencies, CLICK HERE to check out CCPL's new Recession Resources page.

Close to Home: Charleston Battery Soccer = Environmentally Conscious Fun!

The Charleston Battery soccer team's efforts to make their organization and facilities at Blackbaud Stadium more environmentally friendly made their website the "Website of the Week" for June 17th, 2009, on South Carolina Educational Radio's Business Review.
Click the link below to read about the changes the team made in this interview with Tony Bakker, the Battery's CEO and majority owner, on the Go Green Charleston website or click here to read about solar power usage in Blackbaud stadium from the Post and Courier.

http://www.gogreencharleston.org/2008/01/22/tony-bakker-from-the-charleston-battery/

Checkout their website at www.charlestonbattery.com! The Charleston Battery is one of the many generous sponsors of Charleston County Public Library's 2009 Summer Reading Program. CLICK HERE for more info on ALL-AGES Summer Reading fun and prizes at CCPL!

Learn more at CCPL! CLICK HERE for books on the subject, "environmentalism", from the CCPL catalog! CLICK HERE for books on the subject, "soccer", from the CCPL catalog!

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!

Earth Hour Is Tonight: 8:30 to 9:30 PM

Earth Hour is a worldwide event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to highlight the impact of energy consumption on global warming. To participate turn off your lights from 8:30 to 9:30 PM tonight.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON Earth Hour 2009!

Earth Hour on Flickr

Carrotmob Charleston on April 11th: Social Networking Consumers with a Green Twist

Green Drinks Charleston, a local social organization that brings like-minded, environmentally-oriented folks together, is bringing Carrotmob to Charleston. Carrotmob, which has chapters across the US and internationally, tries to identify green businesses and then reward the one selected as the most environmentally conscious by encouraging its membership to go to that business on a chosen day and shop or dine.

Carrotmob is planning an event locally on April 11th. Visit the Carrotmob Charleston site at http://carrotmobcharleston.blogspot.com

Sustainable Eating: Something Old, Something New

One of the issues that crops up frequently in environmentally-conscious media is the subject of sustainable eating. This means factoring in environmental impact when making dietary choices along with the usual determinents of price, quality, convenience, etc. The seminal 1970's classic on this subject is Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe'. Current environmental issues have revived the topics of sustainable eating and socially conscious consumption.

Check out these websites to explore sustainablity options or get ideas for making this part of your "green routine"!

***Cooking Up A Story -

This is a cooking blog that is accompanied by a cooking show, which is broadcast on Youtube and Hulu. Cooking Up a Story was featured on NPR.

The Blog - http://cookingupastory.com/

***Cooking With Clara

Go "old school" Slow Food and watch Cooking With Clara: Depression Era Cooking on Youtube! Ms. Clara, a 91 year-old cook's, show was featured on NPR.

***The Sierra Club's True Cost of Food - http://www.truecostoffood.org/truecostoffood/

***Selections from the Librarians Internet Index - http://lii.org/pub/subtopic/6050

Confessions of an Eco Sinner by Fred Pearce

CCPL Selections on Sustainable Living

179.1 Lappe' - Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe' and Anna Lappe'

Subject - Sustainable Living

The SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT - CLICK HERE FOR CCPL SELECTIONS ON the Slow Food Movement.

Radio, Radio: Living On Earth and More

Environmental news is a hot topic with new discoveries being published all the time. If you are hungry for some audio, tune in to quality programs on your radio or listen to an online broadcast or download a podcast and take your news on the go.

• The Environmental News Network (ENN) is a long-running online news source and a great way to find fresh stories.
• The Society of Environmental Journalists includes radio, online, and print journalists who cover environmental issues. Learn more about environmenal journalism or find a journalist that covers the kind of stories that you want to hear.
• Public radio has some great environmental programming. One of the best shows is Public Radio International (PRI)'s program, Living on Earth, which offers podcasts of its show.
• National Public Radio (NPR) has a page with links to all its environmental news.
  

• Good Dirt Radio "reports inspiring stories about people helping to solve environmental challenges affecting life on Earth."
• Local/regional radio shows are another source of environmental news. The Allegany Front covers Western Pennsylvannia.

Paperless News

Newspapers are going electronic. This requires reformatting and rethinking the medium in order to compete in the online environment. Increasing use of social networking/web 2.0 technologies, staff downsizing, and evaluating ways of generating online revenue streams in the face of fierce competition are among the strategies used by newspaper publishers as they struggle to survive.

Social networking/web 2.0 technologies used include podcasting, blog-like formats, and social-networking in the form of commenting. Suscribers become users and newspapers become interactive in this brave new world of journalism.

The internet provides users with incredibly easy access to up-to-the-minute national and world news because of the proliferation of news media content providers like Google, Yahoo, and CNN. Becoming a provider of more detailed local news appears to be one of the most promising niches for newspapers to fill.

Click here for Charleston newspapers online.

Click for SC Newspapers online.

• Click here for links to newspapers online.

Magazines are also going digital. Some magazines, like Salon and Slate, exist only on the internet. Ezines (online magazines) range from slick counterparts to print publications to solo blog journals.

• Click here for ezine (online magazine and newspapers) links.
  
  

Reading news and magazines online is environmentally-friendly and economically sound because it saves money and creates less waste. Still want to read print copies? Visit the Periodicals section of any branch of the Charleston County Public Library and enjoy free access to some of the most popular magazines and most respected newspapers in print. Using library materials instead of purchasing individual items is always a greener choice!

CCPL's electronic resources also offer access to periodicals from around the world including Grolier's World Newspapers, Newsbank, Sirs Knowledge Source, and General Onefile periodical databases.

• Click here for periodicals from CCPL's Electronic Resources.


• (Click here for access instructions.)

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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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