Economy
Equity
Environment
GTA Landmarks
Potpourri
100
The United Nations' number one goal for sustainable development is to end this in all its forms everywhere.
What is poverty?
100
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?
100
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.)
100
This is Canada's first large-scale community environmental centre.
What is the Evergreen Brickworks?
100
Anagram expansion: AODA
What is Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act?
200
According to Statistics Canada, these fees increased by over 3% for undergraduate programs in 2017-18.
What is tuition?
200
Decolonizing the Libraries involves changing outdated and erroneous subject headings in library catalogues.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?
200
This renewable energy source accounts for 3.5% of electricity generation in Canada.
What is wind?
200
This college campus has many sustainable features including low flow plumbing and a green roof.
What is the Waterfront campus of George Brown College?
200
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?
300
This global book sharing movement has the motto : "take a book, leave a book"
What is the Little Free Library movement?
300
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?
300
This database vendor offered $200,000 in grants in 2019 to fund solar panels on library roofs.
What is EBSCO?
300
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)
300
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?
400
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?
400
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!)
400
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?
400
This landmark in Rexdale serves as a public garden, conservation area, and educational centre.
What is the Humber Arboretum?
400
This DC Comics superhero is a librarian by day and crime fighter by night.
Who is Batgirl?
500
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?
500
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?
500
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?
500
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?
500
This College Libraries Ontario initiative is a step towards a sustainable model for sharing resources and supporting student success.
What is the Learning Portal?