Green Resources

Book and Film Lists and Resources:

Princeton Public Library -- Environmental Themes:

Princeton Environmental Film Festival -- January 2-11, 2009.

Save the dates for 2010: January 2-17, 2010

Library Journal February 1, 2008:

“Sense and Sustainablity”- Booklist

Book Lists: San Francisco Public Library

The Green List

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How other public libraries are going green:

What's Green and Read All Over? The Great American Book Drive at the Princeton Public Library

Arlington Reads Green, Arlington, VA Public Library

Resource Site

Read Green, Live Green

Reading program at the Chicago Public Library

Go Green @ Your Library®

Memorial Hall Library sponsors weekly programs, a Greener Living Fair, and recycling projects and is publishing online The Green Scene, a collection of information about green living and environmental protection. 

Also featured: Shred It! Clean out your office, and securely shred ALL (yes, all) of those old personal or confidential documents and bills! Proshred will send a mobile shredding unit to the library on Saturday, October 4 and October 18 from 9 am-12 pm. Documents will be shredded on-site.

Santa Monica Public Library – literature prize

Blacksburg Public Library, VA Go Green Initiative

Highland Park, NJ Public Library: " Green Teens"

Teen Summer Reading Program at Ramara Township Public Library, Ontario, CA

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Program ideas and how-to:

Earth Day Web site

Recycling program videos

How to make bags

Composting and Recycling
http://www.recycle.umich.edu/grounds/recycle/food_composting.html

http://www.guvswd.org/compost

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Public Library Resources Online

Burlington Vermont

Canton Public Library, MI Green Resources

Des Moines Public Library, Green Guide

Grand Rapids Public Library, MI, Environment and Sustainability

Internet Public Library

Kalamazoo Public Library

San Francisco Public Library

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BLOGS

Brighter Planet

Ecorazzi – the latest in green gossip

Everydaytrash.com

Green Build Indiana

No Impact Man

365 Days of Trash

Yale Sustainability Blog

 

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News Sites

 

The Food Times

GRIST: Environmental News & Commentary

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Online Magazines


Kiwi

E-The Environmental Magazine

Time: Going Green

National Geographic

OnEarth

Orion

Plenty

Sierra Magazine

Waterkeeper

National Wildlife Federation Your Big Backyard

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Topic Resources

Conservation, Recycling & Reduction

Composting and Recycling
http://www.recycle.umich.edu/grounds/recycle/food_composting.html

http://www.guvswd.org/compost

FreeCycle

http://www.freecycle.org/

NewDream.org

Reduce catalog mail

www.catalogchoice.org

Recycling in NJ

http://www.nj.gov/dep/dshw/recycling/source_red.htm

Reduce waste: http://www.reusablebags.com/

 

Community Sustainability

Bridging the Gap, Kansas City, MO

http://www.bridgingthegap.org/egap.php?id=11

Bridging The Gap works to make the Kansas City region sustainable by connecting environment, economy, and community.

Buying Power of Your Community:

http://www.foodsecurity.org/

Consumer Reports Greener Choices: http://www.greenerchoices.org/

 

Cool Cities: Stop Global Warming One City at a Time:

http://coolcities.us/

Campus Environmental Resource Center: http://www.campuserc.org/Pages/default.aspx

CO-OP America’s Green Business Network: http://www.coopamerica.org/cabn/

Environmental Resource Center, Berkeley, CA

http://www.ecologycenter.org/erc/

Sustainable Office Tookkit http://www.p2ad.org/toolkit/

Environmental Justice

Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities.

www.earthjustice.org

 

Food and Eathing Healthy

Community Food Security Network

http://www.gaiam.com/?gcid=S18376x028&keyword=www.gaiam.com

Eat Well Guide: http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home

Local Harvest http://www.localharvest.org/

Sustainable Table: http://www.sustainabletable.org/

 

Green Building

Building Green Schools Resource List

http://www.nesea.org/buildings/greenschoolsresources.html

 

Green Library Resources

http://www.greenlibraries.org/resources.html

Utah State Library: http://library.utah.gov/librarian_resources/toolkit/energy.htm

 

Water

Break the Bottled Water Habit:

Food and Water Watch: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/Alerts/bottled-water

Break the Bottled Water Habit: http://water.newdream.org/

Brighter Planet:

http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2008/08/13/break-the-bottle-water-habit/

Water saver home: http://www.h2ouse.org/

Wyland Clean Water Challenge

http://www.wylandcleanwaterchallenge.org/

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New Jersey Environmental Resources

Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education

http://www.anjee.net/

Associations of NJ Environmental Commission

http://www.anjec.org/

Greennet31.net

A network for people responding to climate change at The College of New Jersey and in the surrounding communities of central New Jersey:

http://green31.net/

Green Eco Resources in NJ

http://www.greenecoservices.com/

New Jersey Clearn Energy program

www.njcleanenergy.com

New Jersey State Library Library Sampling of Environmental Resources

http://www.njstatelib.org/Research_Guides/Environmental_Resources/index.php

Princeton Environmental Institute

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/pei/

Recycling in NJ

http://www.nj.gov/dep/dshw/recycling/source_red.htm

Rutgers University

Climate & Environmental Change Institute – Educator’s Tookkit

http://climatechange.rutgers.edu/resources/education.php

Rutgers University NJ Agricultural Experiment Station – lots of resources

http://njaes.rutgers.edu/

Rutgers University Eco Complex: http://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/index.php

The RUTGERS EcoComplex is RUTGERS University's Environmental Research and Extension Center.

Environmental innovation is a springboard for economic development. The EcoComplex is dedicated to moving science from the lab to real-world applications in our state's businesses and industries, and to promoting New Jersey as a center for environmental innovation and enterprises.

SEEDS

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/seeds/

NJDEP Environmental Education Directory

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Environmental Advocacy Organizations

 

Alliance for Climate Protection

http://www.wecansolveit.org/

Earth Action Network

www.earthactionnetwork.org

Earth Island Institute

www.earthisland.org

Elephant Family

www.elephantfamily.org

Environmental Defense

www.edf.org

Environmental Protection Agency

www.epa.gov

Forest Ethics

www.forestethics.org

Global Green USA

www.globalgreenusa.org

Greenpeace

www.greenpeace.org/usa

Rainforest Action Network

www.ran.org

Rainforest Foundation US

www.rainforestfoundation.org

River Keeper

www.riverkeeper.org

Sierra Club

www.sierraclub.org

Surfrider Foundation

www.surfrider.org/

TreePeople

www.treepeople.org

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

www.fws.gov

Water Education Foundation

http://www.watereducation.org/

Waterkeeper Alliance

www.waterkeeper.org

World Water Council

http://worldwatercouncil.org/

World Wildlife Fund

www.worldwildlife.org

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