Welcome to Alliance Library System’s Green Blog! This blog is designed to help libraries of all sizes and types become more environmentally friendly. Green is gaining in popularity and it is here to stay! This blog will focus on Environmental Organizations & Initiatives, Financial Resources (Grants, Funding, and Discounts), Green Buildings, and Programming Ideas. You will find two tabs at the top of this blog with Additional Resources and Downloadables. Under the Additional Resources tab, you will find lists of useful links on each topic. These links may have already been featured in a blog post or may be highlighted in an upcoming post. Under the Downloadables tab, you will find all kinds of documents ready to be downloaded and used as you see fit. These documents include booklists, brochures, sample proposals, and more. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, a question you would like answered, or any suggestion that you might have to improve this resource, drop me a line and let me know! Little changes add up, and together, we can all make a difference!
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Now that Halloween has passed and Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, it is time to think about ways to make the holiday a little more environmentally friendly. I’ve put together a list of resources that feature tips and ideas for hosting a Green Thanksgiving. Some of the ideas are simple like shopping with re-usable bags, shopping locally, and buying organic products. Others, like dressingDress in vintage, hemp, organic cotton or silk; donating the fat off the turkey to a company that will turn it into bio-fuel; or drinking organic vodka may seem a little out there, but might be of interest to those that are feeling a little adventuresome! 
As green becomes more mainstream, there are more and more resources for green libraries. I would like to take the opportunity to list a few other green library blogs and groups. I am sure there are more out there, so please feel free to leave a comment, and I be happy to post any additional resources.
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