Climate justice recognizes the disproportional impacts of climate change on the people and places least responsible for the problem: systematically oppressed communities and communities of color. Libraries that approach climate action through the lens of climate justice can accelerate necessary work in communities to ensure all are heard in disaster preparedness and emergency management work. Learn how to think like a 21st century economist and how libraries can help lead the way to a just transition of our communities to strengthen community resilience and livability not just in the aftermath of climate change-driven disasters, but well before they ever happen.

Presented by:

• Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (MLS, LEED AP), Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System (NY), Co-founder/Current President, Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI), and author
• Michaela Porta, Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Coordinator, New Canaan Library (CT)

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Webinar attachments

• View slides (pdf)
  
• View chat (xls)
• View captions (txt)
  
• Series Learner Guide (doc) Use alone or with others to extend your learning.
• Climate Action Plan Template (doc)

Related resources and links

• Sustainability in Libraries: A Call to Action (pdf)
• Road Map to Sustainability
• Six Pillars of Climate Justice, Center for Climate Justice
• The Climate Gap and the Color Line — Racial Health Inequities and Climate Change, New England Journal of Medicine
• Six Meta-Strategies, Climate Justice Alliance
• Five Just Transition Principles, Movement Generation
• US Climate Resilience Toolkit and Case Studies
• Healthy People 2030
• Books by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
• Libraries & sustainability : programs and practices for community impact, including Libraries in the Doughnut Economy
  
• Resilience
• Sustainable thinking : ensuring your library's future in an uncertain world
• eNewsletter of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
• Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Final Presentations from the Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Resources from the Sustainability Round Table of the American Library Association
• Sustainability and Libraries: ALA and Sustainability
• Additional links shared in chat:
• Let's Move in Libraries
• Growing Library Garden Programs
  
• 2023 Environmental Congress, Assocation of New Jersey Environmental Commissions
• Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River & Its Tributaries
• Two webinar recordings from British Columbia Library Association: The Climate Crisis and Libraries: Mobilizing for the Climate emergency and The Climate Emergency and Mental Wellness
• Solutions Project
• Not Too Late Project
• All we can Save (check out their newsletter)
• Booklist from University of British Columbia, Hope in a Time of Climate Change
• Resilient Activist
  
• Climate Cafes
• Design for Freedom
• New Canaan Library's Climate and Equity Pledge
• Project Outcome - now mapped to the SDGs
• Green Jobs Board
• Read4Climate Rack Card and Posters from The Library Toolshed
   

• Sustainable Libraries: Resources and Webinars for Climate Action
• Read Sustainability 101, the first article
  
• Read Getting Started with Climate Action Planning, the second article
  
• Read Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience, the third aricle
• Read Climate Justice, the fourth aricle
• Read Programs that Walk the Talk, the fifth article
  
• Reading Lists on WorldCat.org compiled by Sustainable Libraries Inititative
• Essential Reads
• Environmental Justice
• Eco-Literacy for Kids
• Books for Youth Climate Activists
• Climate Fiction Starter Pack
• OCLC's Distinguished Seminar Series with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich: Sustainability—A Call to Action for the Library Community
• Road Map to Sustainability
• eNewsletter of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
• Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Final Presentations from the Sustainable Library Certification Program
• Resources from the Sustainability Round Table of the American Library Association
• Sustainability and Libraries: ALA and Sustainability

Other webinars in the series

Sustainability 101
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Climate Action Planning (Part 1): An Introduction
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Climate Action Planning (Part 2): Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience
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Climate Justice
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Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk
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