Thinking about how you can go green this Earth Day? The CPCC Libraries have resources to help you out. Here are just some of the books and DVDs we offer on topics like the environment, energy efficiency, and climate change:

Books:

• True Green: 100 Everyday Ways You Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet
• Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
• Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• The World Without Us
• Science 101: Ecology
• Earth Then and Now

DVDs:

• National Geographic’s Human Footprint
• How Do I? Energy Efficiency
• National Geographic’s Six Degrees Could Change the World
• History Channel’s How the Earth was Made
• NOVA/Frontline’s Global Warming: What’s Up with the Weather?
• History Channel’s Life After People
• History Channel’s A Global Warning?
• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Search the library catalog for for information on the location and availability of any of the above titles.

EBSCO, one of the library’s databases vendors, is offering free access to an environmental database, GreenFILE, at www.greeninfoonline.com. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.