The publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times
bestseller “Silent Spring” in 1962 launched public awareness and
concern for living organisms, the environment and the inextricable links
between pollution and public health. For the next 8 years, momentum built,
culminating in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. By the end of 1970, that
first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered
Species Acts.
Earth Day’s fight for environmental awareness went global in
1990 and has been a powerful movement ever since, widely recognized as the
largest secular observance in the world and marked by more than a billion people
every year as a day of action to change human behavior and provoke policy
changes.
On April 22 this year, the world will be celebrating 50
years of Earth Day and its empowering of individuals with the information, the tools,
the messaging and the communities needed to make an impact and drive change (
Here are a few ways your library card can help you bridge
the (social) distance for a celebration at home!
Streaming activities, story times, a message from astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and more can be found here, courtesy of Starnet Libraries!
Streaming activities, story times, a message from astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and more can be found here, courtesy of Starnet Libraries!
A wealth of ebooks and downloadable audiobooks are available
on a variety of ecological topics. Click
here for a selection highlighting the effect of humans on nature. If you’re interested in another topic or a
specific title, search the catalog and use the refining selections for narrowing to available
digital formats.
There are over 700 streaming videos about Earth available
through Hoopla and Kanopy (access online at www.eolib.org
or download from your app store). Click
here to view the list. Hoopla and Kanopy have limited service areas
depending upon residency. Check with
your local library to be sure.
Get some gardening tips form HGTV Magazine, Southern Living,
or Better Homes & Gardens and check out the latest issue of National Geographic
to travel the globe from the comfort of home with Flipster, our digital
magazine service. You can access it from
our website or download from your app store.
Need more in-depth research for a school project. EBSCO’s
free GreenFILE database has you covered. Find it in the Health/Science section
of the Jefferson
County Library Cooperative’s databases.
Brush up on your outdoor skills with classes in gardening,
ecology, bird watching, wildlife rehabilitation, and more on Universal Class, accessible via our website.
Get out into nature the best way you can! Here are a few options:
Oceans
Initiative Marine Biology Camp (live on Instagram at 1pm CDT Monday and
Thursday)
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