Discover what role you can play in a sustainable future today
at the Santa Monica Public Library. 

The library's sustainability brochure provides a sample of the wide range of relevant books, magazine, and audiovisual materials that can be checked out at the library. 

You'll find material on subjects as diverse as interior design and architecture, sustainable landscaping and organic gardening, water conservation, sustainable living and social responsibility.  Please visit the library for more information, or go to www.smepd.org and click on "Public Library Materials."

The Library offers docent lead tours every Friday at 12:30 pm.  The tours cover all aspects of the building: the library collections, history, art, architecture and the sustainable features of the building.

This year, the library has launched the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.  The Green Prize has been created to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality books for adults and young people that make significant contributions to, support the ideas of, and broaden public awareness of sustainability. 

You can also visit the City's Environmental Programs Division's website, www.smepd.org, to see how you can protect the environment for a more sustainable future for our community.