The Kraemer Family Library celebrates the campus theme Sustainability and Community with a pair of displays during the month of August.
The first of two exhibits on the 3rd floor of the Kraemer Family Library in El Pomar Center relates to sustainability by way of literature. This year’s All Campus Read selection is “No Impact Man” by Colin Beavan, which recounts one family’s attempt, while living in New York City, to spend one year making a minimal impact on the environment by reducing their energy consumption, not producing trash, and eating only local food. Copies are available on reserve in the library.
Following the sustainability theme of Beavan’s memoir, books in the display are about climate change and conspicuous consumption, as well as information on sustainable living and environmental literacy. Some of the books offer practical tips on reducing environmental impact, and some feature more broad issues for consideration.
The second exhibit, the archives display, looks at the history of sustainability on the UCCS campus. Examples of student academic and activist work, campus initiatives, and construction information trace the development from emerging environmental awareness to consciousness of the effects of choices now being made.
More about the displays may be found at http://www.uccs.edu/~library/spotlight.html#allcampusread.
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