April 2025 Hours and Events

Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 and the idea came to founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.  Senator Nelson announced the idea for a "national teach-in on the environment" to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes as national coordinator.  Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land.  As a result, on the 22nd of April, 20 million American tooks to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies.  This year marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day.  For more information, please visit the Earth Day Network's site at https://www.earthday.org/, which is where this information was gathered from.

The theme for Earth Day 2025 is Our Power, Our Planet, inviting everyone around the globe to unite behind renewable energy, and to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030.

Visit this website for more information on what you can do to make a difference!   

Check out the e-books and books available below relating to this year's theme for a deeper dive.

Image taken from: https://www.earthreminder.com/earth-day-2024-theme-activities-events/

These are just a few of the e-books in the library's collection that can be viewed from anywhere!  You'll be prompted to input your JagWIRE login credentials before viewing the contents of each.

Here are a few books from the library's collection that can be checked out with an A&M-SA ID.  Please follow these steps to place a hold on the books you are interested in and library staff will pull them for you.

The following books are available in the library's juvenile collection and can be checked out with an A&M-SA ID.  Please follow these steps to place a hold on the books you are interested in and library staff will pull them for you.