{"id":106,"date":"2016-04-17T03:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T03:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/?p=106"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:51:30","slug":"meet-margaret-woodruff-candidate-for-member-at-large-one-year-term-of-sustainrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/2016\/04\/17\/meet-margaret-woodruff-candidate-for-member-at-large-one-year-term-of-sustainrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Margaret Woodruff, Candidate for Member-at-Large (One Year Term) of SustainRT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendell Berry says that \u201chusbandry is \u2026 the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.\u201d
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\n<\/span>One of the very best things about living in Vermont is the living thing. From spring\u2019s first green gracing the fields to the touch of frost on the trees, our landscape informs our lives. \u00a0I am fortunate to enfold this love of landscape into my work and seek to do this in as many ways as possible. \u00a0For me, maintaining \u201cthe strands in the living network\u201d involves a focus on local, community-based and resilient programs and practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I became the director here 5 years ago, we\u2019ve added compost bins to our kitchen, a Transition Town garden to our town green and many programs on creating and maintaining sustainability in our community. In addition to the pantry garden we plan, tend and harvest each year, these programs include presentations on Slow Money, sustainable landscaping, net zero home energy, and local eating as well as the establishment of a local seed library. \u00a0The newest and most ambitious project for which the library is a partner is a storm water education and mediation program called \u201cAhead of the Storm,” demonstrating the use of rain barrels and development of a rain garden. \u00a0All of these efforts spring from the library staff and library board\u2019s belief in and support of sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, it was with great delight and anticipation that I attended \u201cSustainable Thinking,\u201d the Master Series Talk by Rebekkah Smith Aldrich at ALA Midwinter 2016. \u00a0Her mission to make libraries the heart of sustainable, resilient communities resonated with me personally and with everything we try to do here at the Charlotte Library. \u00a0The presentation, combined with the chance to meet up with SustainRT members, provoked my interest in applying to be a Member-at-Large for this roundtable. \u00a0I hope to carry the energy and enthusiasm we\u2019ve built in our small Vermont library to the wider ALA community and work to make sustainability a natural and continuing focus of libraries everywhere, to act to bring those strands together.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Margaret Woodruff, Director, Charlotte Library, Charlotte VT<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendell Berry says that \u201chusbandry is \u2026 the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.\u201d One of the very best things about living in Vermont is the living thing. From spring\u2019s first green gracing the fields to the touch of frost on the trees, our landscape informs our … Continue reading Meet Margaret Woodruff, Candidate for Member-at-Large (One Year Term) of SustainRT!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candidate-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}