Earth Day 2021
Consultation has concluded
In honor of Earth Day festivities taking place on April 24, staff at the Ledding Library have put together a reading list of fiction and non-fiction readings to kick off a month long reading challenge for readers of all ages in April!
Reading is proven to strengthen brain function, increase empathy, expand vocabulary, reduce stress and promotes a lifelong curiosity with learning. This Spring we’re encouraging community members to just read and to keep reading.
Tell us what you love to read!
If you have any other favorite reading materials or reading locations we’d love to hear about them. Use the Reading Recommendations tool below to share, inspire others to read your favorites and find some new favorites as well.
Enter a drawing to win a free book!
When you are done sharing your favorite reading material, be sure to enter the drawing to win a free book suitable for Youth, Young Teen, Teen, and Adult reading levels by completing the short form below. It requires registration on this site, which will provide us with the information that we need to enter you into the drawing and allow you to keep engaging with us on a variety of projects, topics, and events into the future.
Share how you celebrate Earth Day!
April 22 marks the annual Earth Day anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. From students in classrooms to organizers in their communities to officials in government there are ways for everyone to get involved and make a difference. Using the Earth Day Activities tool below, you can share how you celebrate Earth Day and the actions you have taken to reduce the impact of climate change in your community. Share, inspire, invite, and encourage others to do the same!
Join the city's virtual Earth Day Celebration on April 24!
Visit the event page to learn more and register.
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What are you reading for Earth Day? Share your recommendations below!
View All Ideasabout 3 years ago
Project Drawdown
"Drawdown is the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This is the point when we begin the process of stopping further climate change and averting potentially catastrophic warming. It is a critical turning point for life on Earth." A great book for folks who want to stay positive! Project Drawdown lists out the solutions to climate change with great stories and pictures along the way. Best book for Earth Day!
about 3 years ago
Farming with Native Beneficial Insects, Ecological Pest Control Solutions
From the Xerces Society. It has great pictures of insects, Information on creating habitats for insects, plant lists, and how to reduce pesticide impacts.
about 3 years ago
The Overstory
This is a great book for Earth Day! I haven't finished it yet, but I can tell you, I was drawn in by the wonderful writing right from page one. Author Ann Patchett describes it as, "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." Here's the synopsis: The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. http://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/
about 3 years ago
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness Book by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
This is a really cool book about crows.
about 3 years ago
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
A post environmental apocalypse land deals with the unintended consequences of biotech.
