{"id":98,"date":"2016-04-10T03:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:51:58","slug":"meet-tara-lingg-candidate-for-member-at-large-one-year-term-of-sustainrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/2016\/04\/10\/meet-tara-lingg-candidate-for-member-at-large-one-year-term-of-sustainrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Tara Lingg, Candidate for Member-at-Large (One Year Term) of SustainRT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tara<\/a>K-cups and bottled water will be the death of me!<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t use it, then you don\u2019t need to recycle it. I am a bit of a cynic regarding recycling as a\u00a0solution to the huge volume of trash that we (as a society) produce on a daily basis, because of\u00a0the waste of valuable resources. I believe that small personal changes add to big changes in\u00a0society. I try to live in a sustainable manner by reducing my own personal footprint, and by\u00a0extension in my work life.<\/p>\n

I have always been interested in sustainability issues; I’ve composted, recycled, reused, and\u00a0reduced, long before these terms hit the mainstream lexicon. In one of my previous lives (don’t\u00a0we all have a few!) I was on my way towards a graduate Certification in Waste Management\u00a0from Stony Brook University. I have seen landfills, sewage treatment plants, and recycling\u00a0plants up close.<\/p>\n

Another \u201clife\u201d got in the way, and I moved on to a job as an electrical estimator, where I learned\u00a0about building construction and LEEDS certification. During the 90s, when libraries were\u00a0experiencing a renovation and building boom, I became the \u201clibrary expert\u201d for my company\u00a0and got to visit libraries all over Long Island, and worked on a number of library building\u00a0projects.<\/p>\n

This led to my current career as a children’s librarian, where I am in a position to inform and\u00a0educate our patrons on everything and anything. I want to be able to provide information that is\u00a0socially equitable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound. Even though libraries are\u00a0known for good stewardship of resources, I am shocked by the waste of resources that happens\u00a0on a daily basis, whether it is the half empty bottles of water or piles of empty K cups, that get\u00a0thrown out; and in the children\u2019s department, lots and lots of cheap plastic crap that is basically\u00a0landfill material. If these little day to day things that we do as libraries do not engender a\u00a0sustainable, resilient, and regenerative environment, then even a Gold LEED Building\u00a0Certification will be of no value to a community.<\/p>\n

I am a full-time children’s librarian at Half Hollow Hills Community Library and I also work\u00a0part time at Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. Most of my programs are run using\u00a0primarily recycled or reused materials, and I am always looking for new ways to incorporate\u00a0greener practices into our daily work.<\/p>\n

After Super Storm Sandy, I saw first hand the power of a resilient library community, MMS was\u00a0a haven for the people that lost so much due to the storm,(https:\/\/www.nyla.org\/max\/userfiles\/uploads\/JLAMS_14_15V11N2comp.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After the storm I was so proud to be part of American libraries (so many do amazing work!) and\u00a0I am running for the member at large position to work to inform and educate our staff on the\u00a0ways provide library services in a sustainable manner to our patrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K-cups and bottled water will be the death of me! If you don\u2019t use it, then you don\u2019t need to recycle it. I am a bit of a cynic regarding recycling as a\u00a0solution to the huge volume of trash that we (as a society) produce on a daily basis, because of\u00a0the waste of valuable resources. … Continue reading Meet Tara Lingg, 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-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candidate-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/sustainrt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}