Session 115: What now? with Bill McKibben - Eco Resilience for 2025

"Libraries are magical--maybe the most magical institution humans ever came up with. We should be expanding them at every turn!" - Bill McKibben
A new US administration takes over on Jan. 20. What lies ahead for environmental policy? New energy policy? What happens to credits for sustainable technologies? Priorities for resilience and recoveries?
Progress on reducing new carbon into the atmosphere was already too slow to meet Paris goals. What's the outlook now for new green tech adoption? Can AI actually help?
How can civilization adapt to the increasing devastation of climate-driven weather disasters? What can libraries do?!
Join in to get Bill's current take on what's ahead and how libraries can cope with humanity's biggest challenge. Stephen will give an update on ILFLA's progress in addressing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). We'll hear from Rossanna on how libraries are being impacted and responding to floods in Italy.
The Future Has Arrived!
"I think connecting libraries as community access hubs for resilience is a good idea, and highly relevant. These communities may not be contributing huge amounts of carbon, but they are the places where it's growing fastest--and more to the point they're where people are most suffering the effects.”
-Bill McKibben, Climate Activist, Founder of Third Act, Co-founder 350.org
"We must strengthen community resilience and the livability of our neighborhoods. Community resilience is the sustained capacity for communities to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity and disruption." - Climate Adaptation / Climate Justice
Speakers
Bill McKibben, Environmentalist and Author
Rosanna Morriello, ENSULIB
Sustainability in Libraries: ALA Call to Action
Video the Environment, Sustainability and Libraries section of IFLA (ENSULIB) gives an overview of its work.
"Green and Sustainable libraries are particularly predestined to take on the role as exemplars, educators, and enablers. Green and Sustainable libraries take into account environmental, economic and social sustainability. Green and Sustainable Libraries may be of any size, but they have a clear sustainability agenda." -ENSULIB
"Don't think 'if it happens', think 'when it happens'." - Rosanna Moriello