April 23, 2009

Government Information presents a new featured resource, Backyard Conservation.

“Backyard Conservation,” from the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, shows you how conservation practices that help conserve and improve natural resources on agricultural land across the country can be adapted for use around your home.

June 6, 2008

The database Environment Complete has been extended until July 11.

If this database continues to be useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.

May 12, 2008

We now have a complimentary subscription from EBSCO to GreenFILE.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

As always, if this database is useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.

May 5, 2008

The Clamshell Alliance, a loosely-knit coalition of antinuclear groups, was formed in July 1976 to protest the construction of a nuclear reactor in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Inspired by successful antinuclear citizen protests in Germany and Western Massachusetts, the Clams put a spotlight on the issue of nuclear power by means of public education and nonviolent civil disobedience, petitions and picket lines, rallies and site occupations.

Committed to a policy of inclusiveness and equality, giving equal weight to every voice, the Clams adopted – and eventually struggled with — consensus decision-making and they deliberately eschewed elected leaders. But perhaps their most important legacy was demonstrating that ordinary people have the right, the ability, and the responsibility to challenge and change the direction of energy policy in the United States.

In 2007 veterans of the Clamshell Alliance marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the creation of a website To the Village Square: Nukes, Clams and Democracy, which relates the story of the Clamshell Alliance and why it matters today.

The Clamshell Alliance collection contains primary source materials related to the functioning of the organization – correspondence, office records, committee minutes, press releases, financial information – as well as information pertaining to the Alliance’s interactions with the courts of New Hampshire. There are also documents relating to the decommissioning of the Seabrook reactor.