Climate Solutions

• Energy Conservation/Efficiency
  • US office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Electric Vehicles
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Composting

Community Building

• The Great Give Back
• Riverkeeper Sweep
• Plant a Flower Day (March 12)
• Repair Cafes & Fixit Clinics
  • Fix It Yourself: Repair events at the library promote sustainable living, by Gabrielle Griffis, American Libraries
  • Repair Café Hudson Valley
  • repaircafe.org
  • Fixit Clinic

Disaster Preparedness

• NYS Citizen Preparedness Corps
• National Preparedness Month (September)

Ecological Restoration

• Pollinator Pathway
• Pollinator Week
• Native Species
• Erosion Control
• Pollution Control
• Arbor Day
• World Soil Day

Food Security

• Seed Libraries
  • The Library of Local Seed Collection Growing Instructions
• National Seed Swap Day (last Saturday of January)
• Gardening
• Preserving
• Community Supported Agriculture
• Community Refrigerators
• Little Free Pantries

Localism

• Shop Local
  • Small Business Saturday
• Farmers Market
• Community Supported Agriculture
• Community Gardens
• Farm-to-Table Programs
• Local Brewers
• Local History

Waste Reduction

• Composting
• Repair Cafés & Fixit-Clinics (see list above)
• Recycling
• Upcycled arts/crafts

Water Management

• Water Conservation
• Water-smart Landscaping
• Flood prevention
  • Flood Watch New York – this program collects and analyzes crowd-sourced photos of flooding & hazardous weather impacts across New York’s varied costs and waterbodies using the MyCoast NY tool.
• Stormwater management