🌍 "Our Power, Our Planet"
April 22 is Earth Day, and this year's theme is "Our Power, Our Planet" so here are some of our newest books on renewable energy to inspire you! Explore new innovations in solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and tidal power that will help in the transition to a greener, cleaner world.
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries—including mining, disposal, and more—does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another?
Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life
Thirty-five projects from around the world demonstrate that clean, healthy energy is within reach in every sector and field. Projects include homes at all scales and for all climates, schools, parks, and offices, and even power plants. Harmonizing nature, technology, and space, each project in Good Energy shows how design can improve planetary well-being while producing cost savings and creating green jobs.
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground
How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? This book examines the role of key actors, arguments and approaches in promoting the much-needed rapid phase-out of fossil fuels. It addresses the importance of linking effective climate action to socially and ecologically inclusive development. In addition to local resistance, the book explores initiatives for national and international policies and financial mechanisms carried out by actors ranging from social movements to governments and large investors.
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The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change
The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change conveys one central idea - that we can utilize energy without continuing to harm the planet by increasing our reliance on energy from the sun. This accessible guide stresses the sun's importance as our ultimate energy source by focusing on climate change from an energy perspective and explains the naturally balanced energy transfer from the sun to the earth and society's consumption of this energy.
Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting Technologies
Numerous efforts have been made to harvest energy from ambient sources, such as, solar, wind, thermal, hydro and mechanical. This book discusses the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for energy harvesting. Energy harvesting technologies are growing rapidly. Over recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted towards the performance modelling and evaluation of energy harvesting technologies. This book is the result of a collaborative effort among different researchers in the fields of energy harvesting and artificial intelligence.
The Sun Also Rises in Portugal
Portugal is among the best-placed European countries to take advantage of solar power, having achieved a five-fold increase in installed capacity during 2017-2023, despite financial constraints. In 2023, its National Energy and Climate Plan set an ambitious target for a further eight-fold increase from 2.5 GW to 20.4 GW by 2030. How can such fast-paced deployment secure sociospatial justice? What insights do political economic dynamics hold for future transitions? Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this book is a one-stop resource for policy makers, practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in just solar energy transitions.
Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students
We are in a climate emergency. Architects must be part of the radical change needed. This book guides architecture students to create truly sustainable designs. Demonstrating holistic design approaches through 10 key themes, it guides students through the different stages of the design process in five illustrated chapters. Reflecting the years of study, it provides step-changes towards eventual architecture practice. Unique features include key checklists, case studies, student examples and an extensive glossary.
Sustainable Energy Pathways to Net Zero
Sustainable Energy Pathways to Net Zero addresses realistic pathways between now and 2050 to reach net zero: a steady state concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It discusses solar and wind energy, hydrogen, energy storage, and electric vehicles, all of which are becoming an increasingly cost-efficient part of these pathways. Hydrogen, the price of electricity, the integration of different sources of electricity into the electrical grid, and the electric vehicle charging networks are crucial in balancing supply and demand. This book describes how these different energy factors fit together. It emphasizes the fact that the intersection of these technologies is where the most profound advances can occur.
The Crash Course
The world is experiencing a series of crises. In The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment, Revised Edition, veteran executive and strategist Chris Martenson delivers an incisive and eye-opening exploration that explains why the reader needs to understand that it is the interconnectedness of the various crises that matters most. From energy shortages to climate instability, financial crises, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, war, and crop failures, you’ll discover the common factor that is driving them all and how to adapt to volatile new realities.
The Wind Power Story: A Century of Innovation that Reshaped the Global Energy Landscape
This book takes readers on a journey through the history of wind power in order to show how the technology evolved over the course of the twentieth century and where it may be headed in the twenty-first century. It introduces and examines broad themes such as government funding of wind power, the role of fossil fuels in wind power development, and the importance of entrepreneurs in wind power development. It also discusses the lessons learned from wind power technology innovation and makes them relevant to the understanding of wind power today and in the future.
Updates
🦉 OWLs wellness display: Ace your exams
Student Development and Counselling's Outreach Wellness Leaders (OWL's) have been busy creating a wall display to help students cope with the pressure of exams. Pop into the library to check out their handiwork (on the big purple wall at the front of the library) and find some resources to help you "ace your exams"!🌳 Pick a poem from our tree
As April is National Poetry Month and April 10 is “Poem in your Pocket” day, we’ve brought back our popular poetry tree. Our “Poetree” is located at the front of the library opposite the purple wall. Pick a poem from the branches of our tree and take it with you for inspiration!
Poetry has many benefits. It can enhance your well-being by providing comfort, connection and understanding. It can be an opportunity for self-reflection and a distraction from stress. It can offer fresh perspectives, opening your mind to new ideas. It can spark creativity and critical thinking.
📢 Enhanced library spaces
We’re pleased to announce the following changes to our library spaces:
- Upgraded study rooms - All our study rooms have been upgraded and are now Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) spaces. You just hook up your laptop to the HDMI cable attached to the large monitor. If you need a HDMI to USB-C adaptor (or even if you need a laptop) we have some for loan at the library information desk.
- Extended quiet BYOD area - Eight new Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) stations have been added to the Quiet Individual Study area of the basement (close to Study Room 5), so you can hook up your laptop to our larger monitors and study in a calm environment.
- New workstations in computer commons- all workstations in the Computer Commons Area at the front of the library (Level 1) have been replaced with newer models.
🐥 Brand-new spring fiction
Have you checked out our fiction collection yet? We've just added some exciting new titles to our shelves!
The Ministry of Time
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
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The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar), returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books - Brianna Labuskes.
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The Haters
Camryn Lane is living her dream. After years of rejection, her first novel has finally been published. Her editor is happy; her teenage daughter is proud; and her boyfriend and friends are all excited for her. She’s on top of the world—until she receives a disturbing message from an unknown sender.
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The Deer and the Dragon
Marlow needs to believe she's crazy. The alternative would mean embracing the gift―or curse―shared by her mother and grandmother: she can see angels and demons, including a dark and haunting entity who's been with Marlow her entire life. At least, she believes that's all he is until a fae from the Nordic pantheon strolls into her life and informs her that she's been sharing a bed with the Prince of Hell. A Prince who's now gone missing.
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The Au Pair Affair: A Novel
Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween.
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The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She’s left only with one certainty: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raihn.
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She's Not Sorry
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin’s fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why?
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Red Sky Mourning
A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast. A rising Silicon Valley tech mogul with unknown allegiances is at the forefront of a revolution in quantum computing and artificial intelligence. A politician controlled by a foreign power is a breath away from the Oval Office. Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has ever seen.
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Phantasma
When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize—a single wish. Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine challenges, each more dangerous than the last. There can only be one winner, and the other contestants will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals.
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Tips: Finding and using images
Need to find images for your project or research? We’ve got tips and resources to help you find, use and cite appropriate images without infringing copyright or accidentally committing plagiarism!
How do I know whether it's okay to use an image in my coursework?
✅ The vast majority of images you come across are still protected by Copyright Law, which means you can’t just cut and paste any image into your assignment or use it as a backdrop for your presentation. It's best to use images that are in the Public Domain (no longer protected by copyright law) or have a Creative Commons License (a public license that allows sharing and reuse of the image.) For a more detailed explanation take a look at our copyright of images guide.
How do I find good quality images that I'm allowed to use?
✅ Here are a few great resources where you can find free quality images with licenses that allow you to use them for educational purposes.
- Britannica ImageQuest - Access more than 3 million rights-cleared assets through our library subscription to Britannica ImageQuest (login with your SAIT credentials) for photos, clip art, infographics, signs and symbols and vector illustrations.
- Pixabay - An excellent free website that has a collection of images with a custom content license allowing use and adaptation as long as it's not for commercial purposes.
- Wikimedia Commons - A Website with over a million freely useable media files that are either in the Public Domain or have Creative Commons Licenses.
Check out our finding images guide for a much longer list of resources.
How do I cite images that I've used in my coursework?
✅ You still need to cite images, even if they’re freely available to use! Some websites with freely available images may say that you don't need to cite them, but if you're using the image in an assignment, you certainly do! We have specific citation guidelines for images, so take a look at our guide on how to cite images in APA, or how to cite images in IEEE, depending on which style your instructor requires you to use. Ask for help at the information desk if you're unsure.
More information on finding and using imagesReg Erhardt Library
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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.