This document summarizes information from an Earth Day flag display and collection at Dartmouth College's Kresge Physical Sciences Library from April 16-22, 2012. It provides brief descriptions of the Earth Day flag, the origins of Earth Day, and the start of Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program in 1970. It also lists titles and descriptions of materials in the library's collection related to Earth science, sustainability, and the environment.

1. • This is the Earth Day Flag
designed by John McConnell.
• Earth Day was first observed on
March 21, 1970 (the spring
In Celebration
equinox). of Earth Week:
• Earth Day is celebrated every A Few Highlights
year on April 22. from the Collection
April 16 – 22, 2012
• Dartmouth’s Environmental
Studies Program began in 1970.
Kresge Physical Sciences
Library
Dartmouth College

2. Office of Sustainability
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sustain/

3. Call# Kresge QE511.C66 2011
Earth as an
Evolving
Planetary System
Explores key topics and
questions relating to the
evolution of the Earth’s crust
and mantle over the last four
billion years…
(from book jacket)

4. Call# Kresge Ref GF1.S74 2010
State of the World
2010: Transforming
Cultures
50+ renowned researchers and
practitioners describe how we
can harness the world’s
leading institutions – education,
the media, business,
governments, traditions, and
social movements – to reorient
cultures toward sustainability…
(from book jacket)

5. Call# Jones Media DVD 5307
http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b3993618~S4
Planet Earth
(5 discs)
A stunning 11-part series that
captures rare action,
impossible locations, and
intimate moments with our
planet's best-loved, wildest,
and most elusive creatures.

6. Call# Jones Media DVD 7622
http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b4418984~S4
Journey to Planet
Earth (10 discs)
Discusses achieving a balance
between the needs of people
and the needs of the
environment, focusing on loss
of farmland, river pollution,
inadequate housing and water
resources, environmental
pressures, grasslands, wildlife,
and the link between
environmental change and
human health.

7. Kresge Current Journals Shelf
http://www.weatherwise.org/index.html
Weatherwise
Magazine
March/April 2012
Features:
• 2011’s Billion-Dollar Disasters:
Is Climate Change to
Blame?
• UAVs: The New Frontier for
Weather Research and
Prediction
• Snow Blitz: The 2010-2011 U.S.
Snow Report
• Fall Snowliage:
Photographing an Unusual
October Storm

8. Kresge Current Journals Shelf
http://physicsworld.com/
Physics World
March 2012
Features:
• Spectacular images of our
planet from afar
• “Geoneutrinos”
• The Earth’s magnetic field
has flipped many times, but
is the reversal spontaneous
or caused by some external
trigger?
• How to forecast an
earthquake

9. Kresge Current Journals Shelf
http://www.earthmagazine.org/
Earth Magazine
May 2012
Features:
• U.S. Navy Navigates a Sea
Change in the Arctic
• Kilauea’s Explosive Past –
and Future
• Travels in Geology
• Mobile Mapping with Lidar
Hits the Road

10. Want to learn
more?
Find us at Kresge!
kresge.library@dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lib
rary/kresge/
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