American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Arid Lands Program
1965–1989
43.75 linear feet
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has long been concerned with arid lands. This began with a 1954 international meeting, proposed by the Association's Southwestern Division, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. UNESCO sponsored the meeting that included representatives from nearly thirty countries. By 1965, AAAS formed a Committee on Arid Lands (COAL) that began to organize conferences and coordinate research efforts sponsored by public, private, and United Nations' groups. Records include conference materials projects on desertification and remote sensing.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Climate Program
1975–1989
46.25 linear feet
This collection of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) program files encompasses conferences and publications on the interaction of climatic and direct biological effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on water, plants, animals, and humans. Records document efforts by the scientific community to debate and define the threats of global climate change. Includes 1979 Annapolis workshop on climate change, AAAS Committee on Climate, correspondence with Department of Energy and other institutions.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Population, Resources, and Environment Program
1974–1987
21.25 linear feet
This program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) concentrated on a numerous areas: scientific, ideological, and intellectual traditions; food; sustainability and technological developments; transnational impacts; the demand side of population; and implications for global security. The program became the AAAS Project on Population and Sustainable Development and later the AAAS Program on Ecology and Human Needs.

Harvard University. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives
Environmental Information Center
LL-5
1 Oxford Street
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Berry, Thomas Mary (b. 1914)
The Thomas M. Berry Papers document the work and life of an important historian and writer on religion and culture in their relations with the natural world. Berry's early interests included western intellectual history, Asian history and religion; later his focus expanded to embody more comprehensive issues at the intersection of culture and ecology. Berry is widely revered as a lecturer and writer on the transactions of life on earth, the contemporary significance of spiritual dynamics, and the ways in which the acts of man affect the universe. He lectured at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and Harvard's Forum on Religion and Ecology, which has created an award and lecture series in his name. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, diaries, calendars, notes, audiotapes, videotapes, artifacts, artworks, and awards.

Harvard University. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives
Environmental Information Center, LL-5
1 Oxford Street
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm
1970s–1980s
24.7 linear feet
A collection of materials related to a serious outbreak of Minamata Disease amongst a small Ojibwe population in Northwestern Ontario. This environmental disaster represents one of a handful of landmark cases in Canada that set the tone for the Canadian National Environmental Policy Act. It also represents a major precedent for indigenous rights vis-ã-vis the environment. The collection consists of personal and topical files collected by Marion Lamm for the purpose of making public the dangerous effects of mercury poisoning on humans. The files were used by a number of researchers, writers, scientists, journalists and other media representatives in developing the "Dryden-Minamata disease" case. It includes correspondence, clippings, radio transcripts, writings, governmental statements of claim, audiocassettes, films, monographs and serials, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, legal claims and documentation, etc.