Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, Colorado invites you to learn about the Routt County Climate Action Plan and what difference can we make as a community. This is an enrichment program surrounding our ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT community read of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future.

Routt County Environmental Health Director Scott Cowman leads a community presentation and conversation about the Routt County Climate Action Plan. He'll walk us from the local Greenhouse Gas Study to development of the Climate Action Plan, to creation of the Collaborative Board and Work Groups, leading to a discussion about plan implementation and how people can get involved through strategic actions that make a difference.

Routt County’s Climate Action Plan is an actionable document that will guide our community towards implementing climate action solutions to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and enhance our community’s overall quality of life and long-term resiliency. The strategies within the Climate Action Plan have been divided into six sectors: Energy, Transportation, Land Use, Waste, Accountability, and Economics. The plan was recently finalized, and the strategies and actions included in it, if implemented successfully, are likely to lead to a 74% reduction in community greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050.

Read the entire Routt County Climate Action Plan online.

Check out a print copy of the Routt County Action Plan from the library.

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.  Learn more

One Book Steamboat has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Funding has been provided to Bud Werner Memorial Library by Colorado Humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Colorado Humanities.

One Book Conversation: Routt County's Climate Action Plan