After a hiatus, I’m back! My latest Library Journal column is now up:

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. The first was the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest, which came out in October. Written and edited by 91 scientists from 40 countries who analyzed more than 6,000 studies, the report finds that the immediate consequences of climate change are far more dire than originally predicted, calling for a transformation of the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.” The second report came out one month later: the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which found that societal efforts to respond to climate change have not expanded at the rate or scale needed to avoid substantial damages to the economy, the environment, and human health over the coming decades.

What are we to do? Where do we start? It’s overwhelming, but all we can do is take one step at a time and bring others along with us.

In January 2019, at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, the “Resolution for the Adoption of Sustainability as a Core Value of Librarianship” was adopted by ALA Council. This resolution addresses the first recommendation from the final report of the ALA Special Task Force on Sustainability…read the whole article here.