Resources
Celebrate Earth Week with the Library
Re-Shirt
 | Bring in an old, useless t-shirt and transform it into something new, cool and hip! We will cut up, tear, and reassemble it into something useful again. From new shirts to bags, we will turn old rags into new duds. For ages 13 and up. Monday, April 20 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Seymour Branch Wednesday, April 22 3:30 - 5:30 PM | Yankee ClipperThursday, April 23 4:00 - 6:00 PM | West Leonard BranchSaturday, April 25 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Main Library |
Food Memories
 | What is Slow Food? Learn more about this international movement. Slow Food West Michigan President Amy Sherman will introduce you to the principles of Slow Food through an exclusive tasting menu. We will focus on food memories and traditions, artisanal producers and local farmers, heritage breeds and seeds, sustainability and local sourcing, as well as the pleasures of the table. Each topic will be experienced through food, discussion and sharing among the participants. Monday, April 20 6:30 - 7:45 PM | Yankee ClipperSaturday, April 25 3:15 - 4:30 PM | Main Library |
Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car?
 | This documentary delves into the short life
of the GM EV1 electric car - once all the
rage in the mid-1990s and now fallen by
the roadside. How could such as efficient,
green-friendly vehicle fail to transform
our garages and skies? Through interviews
with government officials, former
GM employees and concerned celebrities like Mel Gibson and Ed Begley, Jr,
Chris Paine seeks to answer the question. |
Celebrate Earth Day with Earthwork Music
 | Two favorite Michigan musicians, Seth
Bernard and Daisy May, are back at the
Library with their entire crew of Earthwork
Music collective artists to help us celebrate
Earth Day right - out of our chairs, on our
feet and dancing. They will be playing a
free, two hour show you and your family won't want to miss. |
Saturday, April 25
Green workshops and programs all day at the Main Library
 | Looks Better On You! 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Level 3, Ryerson Auditorium) Have a closet full of clothes? Too many shoes, bags, and other accessories to wear in your lifetime? Need something new? Bring your gently used items you no longer need to the Library for someone else and take what will look better on you from their original owner. This program will help you save money and the environment! Baby clothes to adult clothes welcome. | |
 | Bio-diesel Workshop 10:00 - 11:00 AM (Level 4, Vander Veen Center) Promote energy independence. Tim Ball will teach you how to establish your own co-op where bio-diesel is produced by, and for, the members. The goal of this project is to empower groups of individuals to become responsible for meeting their own energy needs as part of their local economy. | |
 | WALL-E Movie & Crafts for Kids 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Level 2, Storytime Room) In a futuristic world, human beings have destroyed Earth and evacuated the planet, leaving the cleanup to an army of robots. Due to a mishap, WALL-E is the only one left. But with the arrival of a female probe named EVE, the monotony of WALL-E's existence is broken and he experiences love for the first time. This film helps teach the importance of recycling and the implications of a disposable society. 98 min, rated G. | |
 | Rain Garden Tours 10:30 AM & 12:30 PM - 2 tours (Library Rain Garden) Patricia Pennell of WMEAC and Rain Gardens of West Michigan, will guide this walking tour of the Library's Rain Garden, as well as 2 of GRCC's Rain Gardens. She will educate and advocate for the use of innovative strategies that value and capture our stormwater runoff and reduce pollution to our local water bodies. In event of rain, meet in the Adult Computer Training Center on the Lower Level | |
 | Green Clean! 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM (Lower Level, Quiet Study Room) Green Earth Cleaning owners Becky Van Dyke and Cassandra Hagedorn will demonstrate how easy, economical and effective it is to make and use your own green cleaning products. We will also discuss the benefits of using essential oils in your homemade cleaning products. You don't want to miss this. | |
| Re-Shirt 1:00 - 3:00 PM (Level 4, Vander Veen Center) Bring in an old, useless t-shirt and transform it into something new, cool and hip! We will cut up, tear, and reassemble it into something useful again. From new shirts to bags, we will turn old rags into new duds. For ages 13 and up. | |
| Food Memories 3:15 - 4:30 PM (Lower Level, Quiet Study Room) This workshop will introduce you to the principles of Slow Food through an exclusive tasting menu. We will focus on food memories and traditions, artisanal producers and local farmers, heritage breeds and seeds, sustainability and local sourcing, as well as the pleasures of the table. Each topic will be experienced through food, discussion and sharing among the participants. |
