Every year, Massachusetts libraries collaborate with Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) on Climate Preparedness Week (held annually from Sept 24th - 30th) to prepare communities for extreme weather by offering programs about emergency preparedness and the intersection of climate change and social justice.  This year, Holbrook Public Library will be participating in Climate Preparedness Week as a CREW Hub by offering a week long Community Art Project : The Ribbon Tree in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the 1st Climate Ribbon project.

"On September 21st, 2014, as the United Nations prepared to meet for yet another summit on climate change to produce yet another hollow treaty, over 400,000 people converged in New York City for what was the largest march against Climate Chaos in world history. The launch of the Climate Ribbon was the culminating art installation at the People’s Climate March: a Tree of Life sculpture hung with thousands of ribbons telling stories about everything we most cherish that Climate Chaos threatens to wipe away: The Gulf Coast, next year’s harvest, the future of our children’s children, the bees, clean air and water…

The Climate Ribbon project invites people around the country, and the world, to share these stories and thread them together. Collectively, these ribbons compose a kind of “people’s treaty,” inspired in part by Northeastern Native American quahog and whelk shell wampum belts that signify the mutual exchange of trust that takes place when commitments are made between peoples. The Climate Ribbon uses art and ritual to grieve what we each stand to lose to Climate Chaos, and affirms our solidarity as we unite to fight against it.

“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” —Dr. Martin Luther King"

-https://www.theclimateribbon.org/project#home

Please join us In celebrating this effort during the week of September 24-September 28 by picking up a ribbon at the library, writing your message of hope for the future of our environment, and adding it to our "Ribbon Tree"!