Give your pup a night out and enjoy some human companionship while you're at it! The Books and Barks Dog Walking Book Club is an opportunity for book- and animal-lovers to get outside and chat about what they’re reading. Bring your latest read or favourite book to share and introduce your canine companion, June 2. Registration required.

Join the growing circle of citizens who are asking big questions about what each of us can do for our shared future. Watch the Mobilizing Kingston for the Climate Emergency video presentation to get started! Borrow Seth Klein’s A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency and learn more about the book here.

Continue the conversation towards a more fair, cleaner, healthier, safer, world for our next generations right here, right now. Explore a daily CO2 dashboard and consider that reversing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the only way through the climate emergency. Sign up for the Climate Emergency Unit’s newsletter and stay informed about various campaigns. Join the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign!

Want to learn more or do more?

Local Groups, Actions and Resources:

• 350 Kingston
• Cataraqui Conservation Native Tree & Shrub Sale
• City of Kingston’s Climate Leadership Plan
• City of Kingston’s Neighbourhood Tree Planting Program
• Commuter Challenge (June 5-11)
• Cycle Kingston
• Earthub
• Little Forests Kingston
• Loving Spoonful
• National Farmers Union 316
• Sustainable Kingston:
• Support the Wolfe Island Commons Pier Revitalization Project
• Volunteer with Sustainable Kingston's community engagement team
• Switch
• Topsy Farms Rewilding Project
• Utilities Kingston Preventative Plumbing Program
• Utilities Kingston Rain Barrel Program
• Wintergreen Studios

Funding/Grant Opportunities:

• Better Homes Kingston
• Canada Greener Homes Grant
• Community Foundation for Kingston & Area – Climate Crisis Fund
• Enbridge Rebates
• Kingston Community Climate Action Fund
• Pittsburgh Community Benefit Fund - Community Grants

Your favourite storytellers have a podcast! Join Kingston Frontenac Public Library's team of singing, joking, reading, moving and grooving programmers, and our friends, for a short podcast that will keep kids of all ages inspired and entertained.

In this month's episode, hear the Little Red Hen's story, jump from puddle to puddle, pick up a few facts about potatoes, laugh at our buzz-worthy jokes, and learn about a very special book with KFPL's Kathy and her friends!

Do you have questions about our proposed Extended Hours Project? Join us for conversation about how the project would work and what it would mean for library service at our Pittsburgh Branch. Our Director, Service Design and Delivery, will be on hand to answer your questions and share the next steps in our engagement process so that you can be involved.

Drop in to the Pittsburgh Branch Wednesday, Dec. 8 from 2-6 p.m. or Saturday, Dec. 11 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. You can also register for an online Zoom open house Thursday, Dec. 9 from 5-8 p.m. by clicking this link.

Our Local History and Genealogy Librarian is here to help you with your research! On Tuesday afternoons through December 7, enjoy a half-hour individual research help session. Choose between meeting in-person at the Central Branch, over the telephone, or on Zoom. Prepare your question in advance, and get ready to learn!

Every Tuesday at 9 a.m., registration will open for the following week's session.