April 22, 2024 marks the 54th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The theme of Earth Day 2024 is “Planet vs Plastic”. PCC will celebrate Earth Week from April 20-26, 2024. Activities include films, workshops, poetry and crafts, pollinator planting, work parties and much more. See this year’s full list of events.
Learn more about environmental issues with these research guides developed by PCC librarians: Earth Day 2023, climate change, cli-fi (climate fiction), and environmental studies.
Breathing Space: The Natural and Unnatural History of Air
Can Business Save the Earth?
The Environment
The Overstory
Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
Green Economy: Home Recycling
Too Much Tourism: the Lake District
Restore the Earth Foundation
The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change
Climate Change and Cities
Making Climate Change History
People and Climate Change
Climate Activist Greta Thunberg on the Power of a Movement
Why Climate Change is Unjust
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Simple Explanation of Climate Change
Climate Change
Alternative Energy
Solar Power Generation
The Renaissance of Renewable Energy
The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy
The Future of Energy
Climate Change: “Default Effect” Sees Massive Green Energy Switch
Energy is at the Heart of the Solution to Climate Change
It’s Time to Create the National Institute of Energy Innovation
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Balancing on a Planet: the Future of Food and Agriculture
Challenging Consumption
Innovations in Sustainability: Fuel and Food
Phytomicrobiome Interactions and Sustainable Agriculture
The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat
TEDTalks: Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Next Dilemma
Urban Agriculture and Creating a Sustainable Foodscape
Diffuse Pollution, Degraded Waters: Emerging Policy Solutions
Predicting Future Oceans: Sustainability of Ocean and Human Systems Amidst Global and Environmental Change
Collapse of the Oceans
The Cost of Sushi: Emptying the Seas
Indian Ocean
Mystery Beneath the Ice
A Plastic Ocean
Bicycle Urbanism
Bicycling for Transportation
Sustainable Mass Transit
Global Footprints
Paris: Vélo Liberté
12 trends That Will Drive the Future of Transportation
Rebuilding the Economy With Climate-smart Transportation Investments
Podcast: the Future of Transportation