Earth Hour is a new environmental science after-school program for school age children. During our first program at Queens Library at Broadway, we discussed how electricity is made, and different forms of energy including fossil fuels and renewable sources.We also built a hand-…
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During our first environmental science program for teens at Queens Library at Long Island City, Greening Library staffer Gil Lopez worked with some teen patrons to install a Window Farm in the south facing window of upstairs auditorium A. We seeded one column of the system with…
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Last month, the Greening Libraries staff presented a workshop on entomophagy entitled “Discover Edible Insects” at the Steinway Branch. We will host the program again on Monday, January 6th at 6:15pm at the Sunnyside Library location. Since we are not experts on the topic, we…
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The Queens Library teamed up with NYCLeaves through BIG! Compost & Smiling Hogshead Ranch to collect fallen leaves at all of our regular kitchen scrap/compost collection sites through the end of November. Leaves are carbon rich "browns" that are vital to the composting…
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They say music soothes the savage beast. Well, maybe, but it certainly has made life at Queens Library at Peninsula better since Superstorm Sandy hit. On the book bus at Peninsula in the first few weeks after the library was destroyed, my colleague Kacper Jarecki brought in a…
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