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SUMMARY:Vermont Arbor Day Tree Giveaway
DESCRIPTION:It’s Vermont Arbor Day\, and we’re going big this year! Thanks to a generous donation from Shayne Geiger (the town’s Storm Water Coordinator)\, coordination from the Shelburne Tree Committee\, and funding from the Climate and Energy Committee through our Living with Climate Chaos series\, we have 200+ bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) seedlings to give to patrons\, first come\, first serve. Fight climate change and build memories by planting a carbon-absorbing\, wooden ally of your very own!
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/vermont-arbor-day-tree-giveaway/
CATEGORIES:Arbor Day,Climate,Climate Change,Tree Giveaway
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Ecological Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi
DESCRIPTION:As climate change impacts gardening\, it’s essential to adapt our practices to grow healthier vegetables\, flowers\,and fruits\, and to maintain thriving yards in an environmentally friendly way. In this talk\, gardening expert and host of Vermont Public Radio’s All Things Gardening\, Charlie Nardozzi will explore natural soil-building techniques\, methods to support pollinators and beneficial insects\, sustainable lawn care alternatives\, and the benefits of native plants for birds and the environment. This program is presented in partnership with Shelburne’s Climate & Energy Committee.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-ecological-gardening-with-charlie-nardozzi/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening,Living with Climate Chaos Series
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Planting for Ecological Benefit & Garden Plans for the Shelburne Town Offices Pocket Park
DESCRIPTION:Are you wondering what’s happening with the former pond garden at the Shelburne Town Offices? Are you curious about how to bring ecological benefit to your home landscape? Are you looking for a dose of environmental optimism? In this public talk\, UVM painting professor and landscape designer Steve Budington shares the planting design for Spring ’25 renovations at the Shelburne Town Offices pocket park. Inspired by meadow and shrubland landscapes\, the new gardens feature naturalistic and ecological gardening practices meant to benefit and nourish humans\, wildlife\, and soil. As part of our Climate Chaos series put on in partnership with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee\, Budington shares how the landscapes of our home and built environments can support positive ecological change. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-planting-for-ecological-benefit-garden-plans-for-the-shelburne-town-offices-pocket-park/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health with Dr. Mark Levine
DESCRIPTION:As part of our ongoing series unpacking the manifold effects and angles of climate chaos\, we’re joined this month by the Vermont Department of Health’s Commissioner\, Dr. Mark Levine. Dr. Levine will explore the health risks\, precautions\, and realities of our warming\, rapidly-weather-oscillating earth. What are best new health and safety practices? How does climate change directly affect our bodies? This event is brought to you in partnership with Shelburne’s Climate and Energy Committee. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-the-effects-of-climate-change-on-public-health-with-dr-mark-levine/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate Change
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SUMMARY:Living With Climate Chaos Series: Pop-Up Book Club - The Great Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Climate chaos is a unique feature of our current age\, and increased frequency and complexity of natural disasters means that many of our fellow humans are becoming displaced\, bereft of home. To examine this issue more deeply we’re discussing Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement in a pop-up book club. Copies are available at the front desk. Join us for this important discussion. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-series-pop-up-book-club-the-great-displacement/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate Change,Living with Climate Chaos Series
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: State Climatologist Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
DESCRIPTION:Extreme weather conditions\, accelerating climate change\, increased frequency and complexity of natural disasters. Climate chaos is a unique and ongoing daily reality which has indelibly imprinted the 21st century. Our series with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee on its impacts\, features and functions\, continues this month with a presentation from Vermont’s State Climatologist Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux. Dr. Dupigny-Giroux is an expert on floods\, droughts\, extreme weather and their impacts on us as humans. Hear her discuss climate and weather trends and what the future might have in store for us.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-state-climatologist-dr-lesley-ann-dupigny-giroux/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate Change
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Gardening with Native Plants with Charlotte Albers
DESCRIPTION:The next talk in our Climate Chaos series sees us exploring regional gardening in the face of increasingly extreme weather fluctuations. Flooding\, erosion\, drought–little is off the table any longer for the local green thumbs. Come learn about tough\, resilient native plants that can help solve problems at your home and enhance local biodiversity. Charlotte Albers\, a landscape designer who created the master plan for the Pierson Library campus\, will highlight low maintenance favorites including many selections around our building. This event is presented in partnership with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee and the UVM Master Gardener Extension Program. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-gardening-with-native-plants-with-charlotte-albers/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Ethan Tapper Author Talk--How to Love a Forest
DESCRIPTION:The second program in our Living with Climate Chaos series is an evening with Ethan Tapper\, forester and author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. Tapper will discuss his thought-provoking new book\, which reexamines forest management and highlights the delicate balance between action and restraint in environmental stewardship. Through vivid storytelling and personal experiences\, Tapper introduces readers to forest ecosystems and argues for a compassionate approach to conservation. Join us and learn how you can contribute to a sustainable future. This series is presented in partnership with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-ethan-tapper-author-talk-how-to-love-a-forest/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate Change
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Philosophical Considerations with Mike Ashooh
DESCRIPTION:For the next several months\, the Pierson Library is teaming up with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee on a new series of programs called Living with Climate Chaos. Each event will focus on a different component of our unique existential crisis–an earth with rapidly swaying climate changes and extreme weather conditions. To kick things off we’re reprising a program we did back in April for public philosophy week: a pondering of our philosophical positions around this sensitive topic. Climate change presents a host of challenges for conscientious people. This casual yet timely conversation seeks to explore the myriad potential responses around this important matter. Informal conversation facilitated by UVM Professor of Philosophy Mike Ashooh.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-philosophical-considerations-with-mike-ashooh/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Climate Change
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