Guildford Library - part of the Surrey Libraries network - has a solid collection of books on climate, environment, economics, nature and more, and we are feverishly reviewing their collection. (It’s a slow process, but after our founder Sam accidentally checked out 26 books at once, we’re starting to make a dent!). 

 

We will be posting information and a brief review of all the relevant books held in the Surrey Libraries system alongside Green Read Share’s books. We hope this will both support our local libraries and also encourage more engagement with environmental education in general.  

Following very positive feedback from parents, we’ll also be adding some books for younger readers on topics like climate change, plastic waste, and what we can all do at home to tackle these and other issues in our daily lives. Environmental education must play a hugely important role in our younger generations’ futures, not least because studies have shown that environmental education delivers a positive impact on wider-curriculum education. We believe in highlighting that children right across the educational spectrum are equally able to engage with environmental learning, no matter whether they find it easier or harder to learn in the standard curriculum. 

 

If we don’t have a particular book that you’re interested in, let us know and we’ll see if we can source one. For any questions, or to ask about borrowing or lending a book, send us a message or drop in to Zero Carbon Guildford’s Climate Emergency Centre!