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Read, Baby, Read: Storytime at Powers Park

Help your child learn through stories & songs at Powers Park! Weather permitting. Text @Portrichmo to 81010 for text reminders. Weather cancelations will be announced via this text service – sign-up highly recommended! If…

Read, Baby, Read: Spanish Bilingual Storytime at Harrowgate Park

Help your child learn through stories & songs in English and Spanish! Weather permitting. Free! Find us at Harrowgate Park near the playground. Text @Portrichmo to 81010 for text reminders. Weather cancelations will be announced via…

Read, Baby, Read: Storytime at Powers Park

Read, Baby, Read: Spanish Bilingual Storytime at Harrowgate Park

Astronomy Club

Do you want to learn more about the stars, space and other worlds? Explore what's up in the night sky with us. This program is for school-aged star-gazers From 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Sleeping Mat Project

Did you know that recycled plastic bags can be turned into colorful woven mats for homeless individuals in our community? Join us to make a difference. All ages are welcome to help - from 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.. This program is a…

Harriet A. Washington | A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Harriet A. Washington won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Medical Apartheid , a far-reaching history of medical experimentation on black Americans from the colonial era to present day. Also the author of Deadly Monopolies and…

Astronomy Club

Do you want to learn more about the stars, space and other worlds? Explore what's up in the night sky with us. This program is for school-aged star-gazers From 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Read, Baby, Read: Spanish Bilingual Storytime at Harrowgate Park

Sleeping Mat Project

Astronomy Club

Do you want to learn more about the stars, space and other worlds? Explore what's up in the night sky with us. This program is for school-aged star-gazers From 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Read, Baby, Read: Storytime at Powers Park

Sleeping Mat Project

Astronomy Club

Do you want to learn more about the stars, space and other worlds? Explore what's up in the night sky with us. This program is for school-aged star-gazers From 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Read, Baby, Read: Spanish Bilingual Storytime at Harrowgate Park

Sleeping Mat Project

Read, Baby, Read: Storytime at Powers Park

Sleeping Mat Project

Read, Baby, Read: Spanish Bilingual Storytime at Harrowgate Park

Sleeping Mat Project

EcoFutures EcoAlternatives

Science Fiction and Fantasy with Environmental Themes

Wild Weather

From global warming and carbon footprints to new weather forecasting technologies and more frequent natural disasters like volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes, typhoons, hurricanes, and more.

Green Living

Green living allows you to become an everyday environmentalist. Go green with these helpful resources including alternative energy, organic cooking, and eco-friendly solutions for your home and garden!

InfoTrac Student Edition *

High school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political…

GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources *

GREENR, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, offers researchers an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies. GREENR provides news, background information, video, commentaries,…

Bill McKibben | Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

“The world’s best green journalist” ( Time ), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His many other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy ,…

Barry Lopez | Horizon

Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams , a “rich, abundant, vigorously composed” ( Boston Globe ) meditation on his travels in the barren but beautiful far North. His other work includes Of Wolves and Men , Crow and…

Adam Rutherford | Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature A New Evolutionary History

“A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived delves into the…

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha | What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis—the signature environmental disaster of our time—and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Internationally recognized for her 2015 study…

Eliza Griswold | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

In the New York Times bestselling book The Tenth Parallel , immersive journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years traversing the geographic and ideological fronts in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Islam collide. In I Am the…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family

In conversation with Tracey Matisak A scion of America’s most fabled political dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub…

Mark C. Serreze | Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North

A fellow of the American Meteorological Society and director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, geographer Mark C. Serreze is one of the world’s foremost experts on the planet’s cryosphere—Earth’s snow and ice cover—and its…

Richard Powers | The Overstory with William T. Vollmann | No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies

A “genuine artist … who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications” ( Esquire ), Richard Powers explores a remarkable range of subject matters in his novels. Among them are The…

Anna Badkhen | Fisherman’s Blues: A West African Community at Sea with Min Jin Lee | Pachinko

With an artist’s eye and a ground-level view of people in extremis across the world, writer Anna Badkhen offers “rich and lucid prose [that] illustrates her journey as vividly as might a series of photographs” ( Christian Science…

Bill McKibben | Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance

Watch the video here . Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His myriad other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy, Eaarth , and Oil and…

Walter Isaacson | Leonardo da Vinci

Watch the video here . Released just weeks after the tech guru’s death, Walter Isaacson’s “staggering” ( The New York Times ) portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs instantly became an international bestseller. Isaacson has also penned…

David Grinspoon | Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

Dr. David Grinspoon is the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress. With research focusing on climate evolution and the conditions for life elsewhere in the cosmos, he has consulted on interplanetary space…

Jane Alexander | Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

In conversation with Laura Kovacs Acting legend Jane Alexander has appeared in some of the finest films of the last 50 years, including All the President’s Men , The Great White Hope , Kramer vs Kramer , and The Cider House Rules . Her…

Jennifer Haigh | Heat and Light with Adam Briggle | A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

Jennifer Haigh received the 2003 PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction for her novel Mrs. Kimble . Her other books include the novels The Conditio n, Faith , and the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers , as well as News…