Just back from doing a session of “Greening Your Library” for the Long Island Library Resources Council at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library. I noticed a different attitude toward green in the room comparative to my upstate presentations. I didn’t feel like I had to sell going green too hard, people got it and seemed willing to invest in it which was refreshing.

There were a number of people in the room already doing great stuff, at least three libraries had “greened” their cleaning programs, one had a thin client computer network for the public, another had had a geothermal system from the 1960s which blew my mind!

Great questions came up – what does the inside of a solar tube look like? [mirrors and lenses] How to reduce bird strikes on windows? [window decal of a hawk/streamers outside for movement] Should we replace our lawn with clover? [probably not worth the effort to replace but worth exploring if you had no lawn or a small patch of lawn] How long will porous asphalt last? [20 years if installed correctly and maintained] Are solar shingles a viable roofing material? [almost, they are predicted to become widely available in 2011-2010 ]