The United Nations' number one goal for sustainable development is to end this in all its forms everywhere.
What is poverty?
This academic library unveiled a new dedicated family room in 2018 so students with children would not be excluded from studying in the library due to childcare pressures.
What is Robarts Library?
This type of library is a collection of vegetable, herb and flower seeds that you can check out and take home. They act as a way to preserve and share heirloom varieties and promote food security.
What are seed libraries? (UofT, UTSC and UOIT/Durham College all host seed libraries.)
This is Canada's first large-scale community environmental centre.
What is the Evergreen Brickworks?
Anagram expansion: AODA
What is Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act?
According to Statistics Canada, these fees increased by over 3% for undergraduate programs in 2017-18.
What is tuition?
Decolonizing the Libraries involves changing outdated and erroneous subject headings in library catalogues. This is the new recommended subject heading to replace Indians of North America.
What is Indigenous peoples--North America?
This renewable energy source accounts for 3.5% of electricity generation in Canada.
What is wind?
This college campus has many sustainable features including low flow plumbing and a green roof.
What is the Waterfront campus of George Brown College?
In 2018, this public library system had it's first Environmentalist in Residence and hired two social workers to serve patrons dealing with homelessness.
What is Toronto Public Library?
This global book sharing movement has the motto : "take a book, leave a book"
What is the Little Free Library movement?
By 2020 Ontario Libraries will be required upon request, to provide accessible or conversion-ready versions of print, digital and audiovisual materials. This collection is exempt from the AODA requirement.
What is special collections, archival materials, rare books, and donated materials?
This database vendor offered $200,000 in grants in 2019 to fund solar panels on library roofs.
What is EBSCO?
This botanical garden has an on-site lending library, seed library, and teaching garden.
What is Toronto Botanical Garden? (Or Edwards Garden or Civic Garden Centre)
This Toronto academic library started awarding grants in 2019 for recipients to design projects that address issues relating to systemic societal issues: such as minority representation in media; awareness of disabled communities; and harm reduction.
What is Ryerson University Library?
This is a model for providing all citizens of a country or other geographic area with a given sum of money, regardless of their income, resources or employment status.
What is Universal Basic Income?
This kind of library saves money and reduces waste by allowing the borrowing and sharing of different types of equipment.
What is a Tool Library? (Toronto Tool Library will blow your mind!)
This controversial and potentially harmful process is a form of natural gas extraction that involves pumping millions of gallons of pressurized, chemically treated water into shale formations or coal beds.
What is fracking?
This landmark in Rexdale serves as a public garden, conservation area, and educational centre.
What is the Humber Arboretum?
This DC Comics superhero is a librarian by day and crime fighter by night.
Who is Batgirl?
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, families in Toronto spend a median of $21,096 on this per year, the highest of any city in Canada.
What is child care?
This growing movement is addressing barriers to information access that people might encounter due to their geography, access to technology, and financial situation.
What is the Open Access Movement?
Environmental protection groups in British Columbia are calling on the government to ban the logging of these, which currently cover 3.2 million hectares of land in the province.
What are old growth forests?
This GTA landmark offers hiking trails, a disc golf course, a March maple syrup festival, a farm with live animals and space for camping.
What is Bronte Creek Provincial Park?
This College Libraries Ontario initiative is a step towards a sustainable model for sharing resources and supporting student success.
What is the Learning Portal?