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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Skip builds musical instruments out of trash with kids in the second grade and younger. He teaches the children about vibration and sound waves through some serious hands-on fun.Using discarded items to make noise and explaining magnification, Skip astounds the young minds and…
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The community compost collections at Queens Library have been wildly successful. We have partnered with BIG! Compost and Smiling Hogshead Ranch to provide the communities we serve with weekly compost collections at four different Queens Library locations in Western Queens. Now…
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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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