Earth Hour - March 2009

Earth Hour takes place on Saturday March 28 at 8:30. This is a good chance to turn off your lights, save some power and try some activities that don't need electricity. I don't think watching telly in the dark counts. Doing something by candle light or moon light sounds much more energy friendly ( and romantic).



You can check out what earth hour is all about on the website



http://www.earthhour.org/about/




There are lots of resources in the library to help motivate you about sustainable living.

Come in and check them out

Sustainable Environment

• Renewable energy – Issues in society
  
• Australia's biodiversity – Issues in society
  
• Renewable energy - DVD profiles examples of technologies harnessing renewable energy
  
• River health : [videorecording] caring for our waterways
  
• Waterwise house & garden : a guide for sustainable living
  
• Australia’s Environment Issues and Trends 2006 - ABS
  
• On borrowed time : Australia's environmental crisis and what we must do about it
  
• An inconvenient truth : [videorecording] a global warning http://www.climatecrisis.net/. Al Gore gives us his views on climate change.
  
• Going native- living in the Australian environment by Michael Archer and Bob Beale – these guys give ideas on how we can live in a more sustainable way in Australia
  http://www.hha.com.au/books/0733615228.html
  
• Ecos is a bimonthly magazine produced by the CSIRO reporting on news in the environmental and sustainability industry. The latest issue looks at research in the Murray- Darling Basin

Sustainable living

• Green office guide : a guide to help you buy and use environmentally friendly office equipment
  
• Waste management – Issues in society
  
• Waste and recycling - Issues in society
  
• Sustainable Living – Issues in society
  
• Organic home : the Australian guide to clean, green living
  
• Your home, your future, your lifestyle - - your interactive step by step guide ot comfortable, stylish and healthy living
  
• Warm house cool house : inspirational designs for low-energy housing
  
• The Australian greenhouse calculator [electronic resource]
  
• Sustainable living for dummies
  
• Save - you money, your time your planet - inspired uses for common household item
  
• The pocket idiot's guide to your carbon footprint
  
• Living Green – environmental encyclopaedia

Sustainable Gardening

• The Small Edible Garden
  
• Australian gardens for a changing climate
  
• How to build your own greenhouse : designs and plans to meet your growing needs
  
• The green gardener : sustainable gardening in your own backyard
  
• Your sustainable garden
  
• The no-nonsense guide to water
  

Sustainable people

• Environmentalists – famous activists for environmental issues
  

Sustainable Sports

• Classic walks of Australia
• The ways of the bushwalker : on foot in Australia
• Outdoor Australia – March /April 2009 has an article on the Best 10 Aussie Multi day walks

International women's day 2009

We are celebrating International women's day in the library with a display of very diverse books DVDs and magazines. This years theme is women and education. Its a good time to ponder the range of courses women can access through TAFE, many of which would once have been considered to be a bad career choice for women. For a bit more history about International women's day check out this website.

http://www.women.nsw.gov.au/IWD2009/index.html

The library will be holding an International women's day morning tea to celebrate IWD day and all the wonderful women involved in Education. Please call in and have a cuppa with us on ThursdayMarch 12 between 10:30 and 11:00.


International women’s day Library resources available from your library

Aboriginal Women
Through my eyes by Ella Simon authors tells of the days when her people were considered to be “non people”
Mum Shirl - Shirley Smith tells the story of her life from growing up on a mission to becoming an Activists
Black chicks talking - sets out to overturn the old stereotypes and showcase ten spirited young black women making their mark in contemporary Australia

Biography

A Burqa and a hard place : three years in the New Afghanistan by Sally Cooper
The Indomitable Miss Pink : a life in Anthropology - Olive Pink (1884-1975) was and unconventional anthropologist and advocate of Aboriginal rights and early proponent of the cultivations of Australian Indigenous plants
Eat Pray love: one womens’ search for Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert
The spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong : a memoir
St Jude’s : a girl from Guyra. A school in Africa and the patron Saint of hopeless cause by Gemma Sisia
Iris : a memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
Poppy – Druslilla Modjeska collects the evidence of her mother’s life
Half a life time by Judith Wright Poet Judith wirght writes a memoir of her life

History
A history of women in the West
No place for a nervous lady : voices from the Australian bush
The complete book of great Australian women : thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia
Great pioneer women of the outback
Pioneer women of the bush and outback
Women and work: changes over three generations AV 331.40994/Wome
The complete book of great Australian women : thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia



Health and well being
Everyday Goddess:finding the heroines from within
Natural menopause: discover the alternatives to HRT
French women don’t get Fat; the secret of eating for pleasure
The change : women, ageing and the menopause
Up the duff : the real guide to pregnancy
Hormone replacement : the real truth : balance your hormones naturally and swing from the chandeliers
Issues in society: Women's health and wellbeing
Girl stuff : your full-on guide to the teen years Good health and medicine magazine - this months feature article is on stress

Women’s rights
Feminism - ideas of the modern world looks at the meanings and history of the feminism
The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
Wifework : what marriage really means for women
The atlas of women in the world
Issues in society Women's rights
Issues in Society Gender Equity
Issues in society Sexuality and discrimination

Movies
North country
Swing
Little Miss Sunshine


Mothering
A hard place [videorecording]
The mask of Motherhood: how mothering changes everyting and why we pretend it doesn’t by Susan Maushart
Mothers & sons : bringing up boys as a sole parent 649.10243/HOWA

Religion
Unveiled : nuns talking
The spiral staircase

Rural Women
Women of the land : stories of Australia's rural women

Rural Women's network magazine ( most recent issue looks at financial skills)

Skills
The women's power handbook by Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner - this book will help you work out what you want , communicate it, get others to work with you and advance your cause:
Life skills for women. Teacher book
Women’s skills: valuing your experience

Literature/Poetry

Our Granny by Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas
When I am an Old Woman I shall wear purple
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter rides again