Caring for the Earth
In adherance with the City’s sustainability goals, the North Vancouver City Library strives to help create a vibrant, diverse, and highly liveable community through its facilities and resources.
Browse our shelves (row 20 on the third floor) and look for the ‘sustainability’ sticker on the spine of books and DVDs, all of which can make your life a little more sustainable.
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Regularly updated lists of books, magazines and movies with sustainable themes. These include physical items you can borrow from the library, and digital items you can enjoy on your devices at home or on the go. Click on a book to learn more or choose your preferred format.
The Frugal Homesteader
Living the Good Life on Less
ECO Thrifty
Cheaper, Greener Choices for A Happier, Healthier Life
You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap)
How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too
The Rooftop Growing Guide
How to Transform your Roof Into A Vegetable Garden or Farm
Paradise Lot
Two Plant Geeks, One-tenth of An Acre, and the Making of An Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Our Environmental Handprints
Recover the Land, Reverse Global Warming, Reclaim the Future
Live Green
52 Steps for A More Sustainable Life
Natural Living Style
Inspirational Ideas for A Beautiful and Sustainable Home
Greening your Community
Strategies for Engaged Citizens
The Right to Be Cold
One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet
Less Is More
Embracing Simplicity for A Healthy Planet, A Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness
Some of our favourite podcasts with environmental themes. Do you have a favourite that we should know about? Send us an email with your suggestion.
Infinite earth radio
Information on local environmental, social and economic sustainability initiatives.
Sustainability defined
Information on local environmental, social and economic sustainability initiatives.
The Energy Transition Show
Gas saving tips, benefits of saving fuel, fuel economy trackers, info about hybrid cars, alternative fuels and more.
Sustainable living
Information on local environmental, social and economic sustainability initiatives.
The Permaculture podcast
This podcast discusses sustainable food, power, water, transportation and shelter.
The Drawdown Agenda
A limited series podcast exploring research about how we can reverse global warming.
Take a deep dive into local and global sustainability with these websites.
of North Vancouver - Sustainability in the City
The City of North Vancouver's community vision is to be a vibrant, diverse and highly livable community that strives to balance the social, economic and environmental needs of our community locally.
Sustainability (Wikipedia)
This article discusses various aspects of sustainability, including definitions of the term, as well as the interaction between social sustainability, environmental sustainability and economic sustainability.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
The IISD is and award-winning independent think tank. Their mission is to "To accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resources, and fair economies."
