Santa Barbara Public Library expands hands-on sustainability programs under state grant

Apr 4, 2025

Library staff described a two-year, state-funded sustainability program that offers sewing, gardening, repair clinics, a circulating "library of things" and a pilot tool-lending collection.

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Paige Sundstrom, the adult programming librarian at Santa Barbara Public Library, told the Sustainability Committee on April 3 that the library's Sustainably SVPL series — funded by the Sustainable California Libraries grant from the California State Library — has offered two years of hands-on classes and community events to teach mending, gardening and sustainable cooking.

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