🌍Earth Day
The theme of Earth Day 2026 is Our Power, Our Planet. Explore our eco-friendly reads on topics like climate action, sustainability, and eco-design, packed with ideas you can apply at home, at work, or in your community to help protect the planet.
Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency
This collection of leading and emerging voices from around the world offers inspiring perspectives and tools for collective change in the built environment. It provides concrete ways to shift architectural practice toward carbon-neutral design and social and environmental justice.
Blue and Green Cities
A practical, policy-focused roadmap that shows how blue-green infrastructure can help cities manage water, wastewater, and stormwater more sustainably than traditional grey systems and lead to a healthier urban environment.
AI for the Sustainable Development Goals
An accessible introduction that connects AI to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It looks beyond the algorithms to the real-world context—who builds AI, who benefits, and what it’s used for, providing a clear framework for evaluating how AI can genuinely support sustainable development.
We Need To Talk About Climate
Citizens’ assemblies can bring everyday people’s shared wisdom into climate decision-making. With a clear-eyed, hopeful tone, this book shows how well-designed assemblies can build legitimacy, spark public buy-in, and accelerate the deep transformations needed for net-zero, climate-resilient societies.
Being a Sustainable Firm
A guide to how to embed sustainability into an organization offering clear takeaways for leaders and practitioners who want to turn sustainability ambitions into measurable business action.
Optimizing Generative AI Workloads for Sustainability
A playbook for reducing the environmental footprint of generative AI without sacrificing results, covering everything from hardware choices and scheduling to model compression, data practices, and responsible deployment.
Universities and Climate Action
Inspiration on how post-secondary institutions can rethink their roles in teaching, research, governance, and community engagement to become powerful climate actors. A thought provoking book that shares how to embed climate responsibility across campus life and help drive a just, sustainable transition.
Green Building Costs: The Affordability of Sustainable Design
This book tackles a common barrier to climate-friendly construction by separating myths from reality about what green buildings truly cost. It explains the key cost drivers, especially the human factors in design and delivery, and provides a pathway to making high-performance, sustainable buildings more affordable.
Civil Engineering Innovations for Sustainable Communities with Net Zero Targets
A showcase of civil engineering innovations that support net-zero and the Sustainable Development Goals, spanning topics from smart water management and wetlands conservation to BIM-enabled affordable construction.
The Growth Story of the 21st Century
Nicholas Stern makes a persuasive, optimistic case that climate action is the defining growth opportunity of the 21st century rather than a trade-off against development. Drawing on economics, finance, policy, and behavioural science, he lays out practical strategies for accelerating a resilient, inclusive transition powered by rapid technological change.
Updates
🪑New library furniture
We’re excited to share that new furniture has been installed in three of the library’s study areas.
Stop by to check out refreshed collaborative spaces in the fiction and magazine areas, plus new individual study carrels along the windows. With more room to spread out, flexible seating, peanut-shaped tables, and large whiteboards you can use while seated, these updated areas offer a comfortable, distraction-free place to study.
🖨️Print, copy and scan at our multifunction printers
Printing at the library just got simpler! Look for the giant step-by-step instructions posted by the printers:
If you get stuck, stop by the information desk and we’ll walk you through it.
💦Student posters on water and gender
Drop by the purple wall at the front of the library this month to view a display of World Water Day posters created by SAIT students. The posters were originally created for the UN Day of Observance on March 22, and you can view them throughout Earth Month. This year’s theme is Water and Gender, highlighting how water access, management, and decision-making intersect with gender equity around the world.
🎉 Open Educational Resources (OER) Announcement
Jessica Norman, our OER Librarian, shared an update on how much money SAIT students have saved since the introduction of OER in 2016 and it's pretty impressive!
Learn more about Open Educational Resources (OER) at SAIT.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.