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• Learn more about BCLA's Climate Action Week Initiative

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  Join libraries and other GLAM organizations across BC and Ontario to focus on the climate change related challenges and emergencies facing our communities. Our goal is to raise awareness, answer our communities’ growing needs, and articulate clearly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Online Reading Challenges with Beanstack

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  Join this months' online reading challenge to track your reading and earn prizes!

• Nature Packs

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  Connect with nature. This pack contains everything you will need to embrace your natural surroundings: walking poles, three nature pamphlets, Being with Trees book, pocket microscope, chime and mallet. Get outside and enjoy the mental and physical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thermal Leak Detectors

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  Thermal Leak Detectors are a portable device that uses an infrared sensor to detect surface temperatures. Test your home for thermal loss, so you can improve your home’s efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and your energy bill.

• Solar Panel Kit

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  Harness the power of the sun to generate electricity and discover the potential of alternative energy sources. This 28W portable solar panel is durable, efficient, and easy to use featuring a compact and lightweight design.

• This Book Is a Knife

  Radical Working-class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change

  Fox, L. E.,

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  Despite the naysayers, climate change is a fact. We know that global temperatures are rising, that weather patterns are changing, that forest fires, droughts, flooding, severe storms, and heat waves are the new normal. We know this planet is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here Comes the Sun

  a Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

  McKibben, Bill,

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  In Here Comes the Sun, climate activist Bill McKibben explores the rapid rise of solar and wind energy as a powerful, accessible alternative to fossil fuels. Highlighting global progress and grassroots efforts, he shows how renewable energy offers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Eating the Earth

  the Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

  Grunwald, Michael, 1970-

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  Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we're going to need a lot more calories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies, but we can't feed the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Intervention Earth

  Life-saving Ideas From the World's Climate Engineers

  Dyer, Gwynne,

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  Historian, journalist, and author Gwynne Dyer interviews the world's top 100 climate scientists to discuss the extraordinary measures we must contemplate to counter the irreversible effects of climate change.

• The Weight of Nature

  How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

  Aldern, Clayton Page, 1990-

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  For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life, to all those who love science books about the brain The effects of climate change on our brains are a public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Intertwined

  Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

  Kormos, Rebecca,

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  A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet

• The Story of Upfront Carbon

  How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis

  Alter, Lloyd,

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  We must cut carbon emissions to halt climate change. But they aren't just produced by driving a car or heating a home. Upfront carbon -- all emissions involved in manufacturing an item -- can dwarf operating emissions, which is why when you look at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story Is in Our Bones

  How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

  Lake, Osprey Orielle,

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  A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solved

  How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

  Miller, David, 1958-

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  If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Runaway Climate

  What the Geological Past Can Tell Us About the Coming Climate Change Catastrophe

  Earle, Steven,

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  56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway Climate explores the causes of this catastrophic event, its dramatic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not the End of the World

  How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

  Ritchie, Hannah,

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  It has become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. If a heatwave doesn't get them then a wildfire will. Or a hurricane, a flood, or starvation. It shouldn't, then, come as a surprise that most young people feel their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life as We Know It (can Be)

  Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World

  Weir, Bill, 1967-

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  Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir draws on his years of immersive travel and reporting to share the best ideas and stories of hope and positivity from the people and communities around the world who are thriving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Clear Blue Sky

  the Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere

  Jackson, Rob, 1961-

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  One of the world's leading climate scientists, a superb storyteller, shares his hopeful and attainable vision for restoring the atmosphere and ending the climate crisis within our lifetime.Climate change is here. From the millions displaced by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Mess

  Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

  Wiebe, Sarah Marie,

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  No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gaia's Web

  How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

  Bakker, Karen J.,

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  This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and…Read moreRead more of this annotation