Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
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Sustainability | On a Mission
The urgency behind sustainability work has been growing year by year and has picked up considerably with the issuance of two reports in fall 2018.
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Resilience
Aldrich adeptly introduces and tackles a critical topic in less than 100 pages. Her message will be of interest to library professionals and community leaders.
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Sustainable Thinking: Ensuring Your Library's Future in an Uncertain World
Featuring lively prose, splashy concepts, and writing exercises evocative of Seth Godin (Linchpin; All Marketers Are Liars), Aldrich's book is refreshing and required reading for library leaders and advocates.
Certified Sustainable | Sustainability
The New York Library Association (NYLA) is poised to make library history with the launch of its Sustainable Libraries Certification program this November.
Don’t Let This Moment Pass You By | Sustainability
In the wake of the president’s announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, an unprecedented, decentralized groundswell of support to combat climate change in our country has emerged.
Subversive Librarians | Sustainability
Overnight we went from a president who declared climate change as the single greatest threat to future generations to a president, and Senate, who appointed a climate change denier to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Arming the Ramparts | Sustainability
The sustainability of our world depends on a strong social fabric in local communities where people know and respect one another. This social fabric is key for resilient communities in the face of environmental, economic, and social disruption. That fabric is now torn in many places thanks to the vitriol and viciousness of the presidential election and fears about what will happen next.
Deliberate Resilience | Sustainability
Resilience: to bounce back after disruption. We've dealt with a lot of disruption as libraries and citizens in the past year. From a pretty insane presidential race to a major nationwide Internet outage caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that harnessed the Internet of Things to hurricanes, drought, and forest fires, we've got disruption in just about every sector of modern life.
Sustainability: Each Choice Tells Our Story | Designing the Future
I’ve been working hard to ensure libraries understand that sustainability involves far more than “going green.” Embracing the Triple Bottom Line definition of sustainability helps libraries think holistically about the environmental, economic, and social aspects of their library and community. Nonetheless, libraries have a lot of work to do on the “going green” side of things.