About Green Bunk

Green Bunk is Book Bunk’s mitigation response to the effects of Climate Change. Through this programmatic strand, we seek to deliver a series of interventions for the communal benefit of library users and Nairobi residents at large. This programme sits within our larger goal to convert these crucial public spaces into inclusive ones that nurture the pursuit of knowledge. 

Environmental conservation in Kenya is still for the most part viewed as the preserve of activists and conservationists. This programme will attempt to address this dichotomy through eco-education programmes and initiatives including waste reduction hacks, resource conservation and recycling tips to demonstrate how practicing sustainability can lead to reduced household expenditure. A key part of this programme is the installation & maintenance of community gardens in each of the library spaces and, through partnerships, the broad utilisation of these spaces to pilot practices that users can implement in their homesteads as well as generate income from. 

Impact

We hope to achieve the following impact through the Green Bunk programme; 

  • Plant a Book Bunk offset forest each year
  • Increased eco-friendly and recycling habits are evident in the library community
  • Create cleaner and greener communities around the library first, and elsewhere later
  • Develop a curriculum for eco-education programming that can be replicated and rolled out at all three library branches

Growth

Our long-term goals include;

  • Community gardens are fully managed by library users
  • Recycling becomes the norm in our library community, measured by frequency of trash collections.
  • Green Bunk nurtures a crop of eco-warriors and facilitates the expansion of the programmes via these individuals, essentially graduates of our programmes.
  • Green Bunk begins to provide economic opportunities for its graduates through skills acquisition
  • Plastics up-cycling program
  • In the long term, develop and pilot a curriculum for eco-education programming that can be replicated as needed and delivered annually at the library.

SUPPORT: Book Bunk is seeking in-kind and fiscal partnerships to support  the establishment and operation of Green Bunk. To get involved, please contact Sahar McTough at sahar@bookbunk.org