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Environment and Sustainability Collections Guide
The Special Collections Department holds many prominent collections relating to the Environment and Sustainability.
| Primary Sources in Special Collections and University Archives | |
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Bennett, Hugh Hammond (1881-1960) (pdf file) |
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Bio Based Industry Outlook Conference |
RS 0/4 |
Bioeconomy Institute |
RS 6/1/6 |
Bioeconomy Update |
RS 9/1/5 |
Bioethics Committee |
RS 8/6/7 |
Biomass Energy Conference |
RS 6/9 |
Biomass Energy Conversion Facility |
RS 6/9 |
Biomass Gassification |
RS 11/10/1 |
Biorenewables Program, Office of |
RS 6/1/6 |
Bioresource Engineering |
RS 15/24 |
Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products |
RS 9/1/6 |
Biotechnology Information Series |
S494.5 B563 B655x |
Biotechnology Update |
TP248.13 I59x |
Center for Advanced Technology Development (CATD) |
RS 18/7 |
Center for Agricultural and Economic Development (CAED) |
RS 9/2/8 |
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) |
RS 9/2/8 |
Center for Building Energy Research |
RS 18/17 |
Center for Crops Utilization Research |
RS 9/1/6 |
Center for Emerging Technology |
RS 18/5 |
Center for Food and Industrial Agricultural Product Development |
RS 9/2/1 |
Center for Food Security and Public Health |
RS 14/6 |
Center for Immunity Enhancement in Domestic Animals |
RS 14/6 |
Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture (CIKARD) |
RS 15/18 |
Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) |
RS 16/2 |
CIRAS News |
RS 16/2/0/6 |
CIRAS News for Iowa Industry |
RS 16/2/0/6 |
Center for Plant Breeding |
RS 28/5 |
Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stress |
RS 28/7 |
Center for Plant Transformation and Gene Expression |
RS 28/4 |
Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stress |
RS 28/7 |
Center for Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Technology |
RS 11/1/6 |
Center for Rural Affairs |
MS-413 |
Center for Sustainable Environmental Technology |
RS 18/13 |
Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods |
RS 18/13 |
Center for Transportation Research and Education |
RS 11/1/6 |
Citizens United for the Conservation of Underground Water, Inc. |
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Compost Facility (ISU) |
RS 4/8/4 |
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) |
MS-489 |
Current Issues in Biotechnology |
TP248.13 I5811 |
Cy-Ride |
RS 0/2/1 |
Council on Sustainability |
RS 0/3 |
Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management |
RS 9/17 |
Ecodefenders (ISU) |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
Emerging Green Builders (ISU) |
RS 22/7/0/1 |
Energy Conservation Task Force |
RS 8/6/141 |
Energy Extension Services (EES) Series |
RS 16/4/0/5 |
Energy Matters (Monthly Ideas from Energy Extension) |
RS 16/4/0/5 |
Energy Research House, Ames Laboratory |
RS 17 |
Energy Research House, ISU Research Foundation |
RS 23/1/0/3 |
Energy Steering Committee |
RS 0/2/1 |
Engineers for a Sustainable World |
RS 22/10/0/1 |
Environmental Awareness Club |
RS 22/7/0/1 |
Environmental Action Committee |
RS 8/6/25 |
Environmental Studies Program |
RS 15/17 |
Forestry, Department of |
RS 9/14 |
Forestry Club |
RS 22/5 |
Greening of ISU |
RS 8/5/24 |
Greenhouse and Controlled Environmental Center |
RS 4/8/4 |
Greens, ISU |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
Herbicide Research |
RS 9/9 |
Iowa Conference of Environmental Organizations |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
Iowa Energy Center |
RS 6/9 |
Iowa Environmental News |
RS 22/6 |
Iowa Organic Conference |
RS 0/4 |
Iowa State University Environtology Council |
RS 8/5/3 |
Iowa State University Bioethics Program |
RS 6/7/3 |
Iowa State University Curriculum Committee |
RS 8/6/19 |
Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering |
RS 11/5 |
Iowa State University International Conference and Workshops on Icebergs |
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Isely, Duane |
RS 13/5/56 |
ISU Organic Farm |
RS 4/8/4 |
Keep Iowa State Beautiful Committee |
RS 8/6/187 |
Lamp, George E., Sr. (1903-1964) |
RS 21/7/63 |
Leopold Centennial Celebration |
RS 0/4 |
Leopold Center (Iowa State University) for Sustainable Agriculture |
RS 9/1/5 |
Leopold Letter |
S494.5 S86 6X |
Live Green! Initiative |
RS 8/6/188 |
Master Sample of Agriculture, Zone 3 (pdf file) |
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National Agricultural Bio Council |
RS 8/5/18 |
Pammel Wood Preserve |
RS 4/8/4 |
President’s Advisory Council on Energy Conservation and Global Climate Change |
RS 8/6/188 |
Recycle Your Phone Book |
RS 0/2/1 |
Recycling Building |
RS 4/8/4 |
Recycling Center |
RS 4/6 |
Recycling Committee (ISU) |
RS 8/6/173 |
Recycling Iowa |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
Skunk River Navy |
RS 22/5/0/1 |
Soil and Water Conservation Society (ISU) |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
Soil Conservation |
RS 9/9 |
Soil Conservation Week |
RS 16/5/1 |
Soil Tilth Center, National |
RS 9/9/1 |
Speaker, Everett B. (1907-1971) |
RS 21/7/43 |
Student Environmental Council |
RS 22/4/0/1 |
SUL Series (Sustainable Landscape Series) |
SB472.7 S87x |
Texas Soil Conservation Districts |
MS-206 |
United States. Soil Conservation Service Hydrologic Laboratory (Spartanburg, South Carolina) |
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United States. Soil Conservation Service Oral History Collection |
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United States. Soil Conservation Service Photograph Collection |
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Water Resource Advisory Committee |
RS 8/6 |
Wind Energy Symposium (ISU) |
RS 0/4/5 |
| Selected Secondary Sources in Special Collections |
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Ag Bioethics Forum: an interdisciplinary newsletter in agricultural bioethics. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1988-1998. |
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Bartholomew, Harland. Land uses in American cities. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955. |
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Beck, Leslie Thomas. Agricultural land protection and growth management: a case study of Story County, Iowa. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1999. |
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Bell, Michael Mayerfield, et al. Farming for us all: practical agriculture and the cultivation of sustainability ; photography by Helen D. Gunderson. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004. |
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Bellara, Viki Deepak. Towards a comprehensive planning process involving local citizens in sustainable development: Mumbai, India. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2003. |
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Bowers, Tom. Rationality and environmental justice : the visual rhetoric of a culture at risk. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2005. |
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Bushwick, Nancy and Hal D. Hiemstra. National directory of farmland protection organizations. Washington, D.C. (1616 H. St., N.W., Washington 20006): NASDA Research Foundation, Farmland Project, 1983. |
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Butterfield, B.L. Consumptive water requirements of Iowa power plants as a factor in energy management. Ames, Iowa: Engineering Research Institute, Iowa State University, 1977. |
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Cifuentes, Julio Caesar Alonso. Sustainability of a fiscal policy and a current account : a threshold cointegration approach for the G-7 countries. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2002. |
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Conservation Foundation. A critical index of films and filmstrips in conservation, dealing with renewable resources, non-renewable resources, resources and people, and ecology. New York: Conservation Foundation, 1965. |
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Council on Agriculture and Science Technology (CAST) Bioenergy: pointing to the future: a five-part issue paper / CAST, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. Ames, Iowa: Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, 2004. |
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Cohen, Dan. Endangered species in Iowa. Guthrie Center, Iowa: Iowa Association of Naturalists, 1992.
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Dougal, Merwin D. Interrelationships of land use and water supply management: Hallett's Quarry supplemental water supply study: preliminary report submitted to City of Ames. Ames: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Iowa State University, 1980. |
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Dumont, Philip A. Fish and game. [Iowa?: 193-?]. |
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Planning for fish and game restoration; fifteen minute radio talk over WOI, November 21, 1934. Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa State Planning Board, 1935 |
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Errington, Paul. Of men and marshes. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1996. |
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Evans, Wendy Van Dyk Trees in farm landscapes: a survey of Iowa farmers Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2005. |
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Ferrell, John S. Fruits of Creation: A Look at Global Sustainability as Seen through the Eyes of George Washington Carver. Shakopee, Minn.: Macalester Park Publishing Co., 1995. (on order) |
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Food security and vegetables: a global perspective. Edited by Prem Nath, P.B. Gaddagimath, O.P. Dutta, et al. Banglalore: Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation, 2004. |
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Fox, Michael W. Animals have rights, too. New York: Continuum, 1991.
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Gay, Jennifer Elaine. Good hands and green thumbs. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2000. |
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Geske, Joel Iowa's agricultural practices and the environment. Guthrie Center, Iowa: Iowa Association of Naturalists, 1998 (1992 is also available) |
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Geske, Nancy. Tropical rainforests—the Iowa connection. Guthrie Center, Iowa: Iowa Association of Naturalists, 1992. |
Graham, Frank. Since Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970. |
Grandin, Temple. Beef cattle handling and facilities design. Fort Collins, Colo. : T. Grandin, 2000.
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Hanson, Victor Davis The land was everything: letters from an American farmer. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2000. |
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Hawks, Richard and Shelley Mastran. Your town: designing its future: a rural community design workshop and follow-up case studies. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1997. |
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Iowa Soybean Association. Watershed program. Urbandale, IA: Iowa Soybean Association, 2007. |
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Jayaratne, Koralalage Sunil. Agricultural extension educators' perceptions regarding the teaching and learning processes as related to sustainable agriculture: implications for agricultural extension education. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2001. |
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Johnson, Carolyn R. Keeping the home on the range: options for reducing the concentration in ownership and control of the West's land, minerals, and water resources. Billings, Montana: Western Organization of Resource Councils, 1986. |
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Johnson, Cassi Ann. "There's a lot more to it than making a living ..." : human-animal relationships in three Iowa sustainable farming systems. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2006. |
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Journal of the New Alchemists. Woods Hole, MA: New Alchemy Institute, 1973-1981. |
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Kelly, Garth Francis. Method for comparative analysis of agricultural system. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2003. |
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Kenaston, Elizabeth Wightman Sustainable open space planning and implementation with an assessment of the applicability of GIS in local communities. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2003. |
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Kingsland, Sharon E. The evolution of American ecology, 1890-2000. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. |
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Kotile, Dido Guyo. Perceptions regarding sustainable agricultural practices associated with weed management : implications to agricultural extension education. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1998. |
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Knutsen, Paige Grimes, Threatened existence: Saba senegalensis in southeastern Senegal. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2003. |
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Kroma, Margaret Mattu Local inquiry and alternative knowledge: cognitive dimensions of the sustainable agriculture movement. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1999. |
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Land use and natural resource directory for Story County. Ames, Iowa: Iowa Land Use Analysis Laboratory (Iowa State University, 1972 |
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Lecture series: Designing for sustainability: an ecological approach [sound recording]. |
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Lecture series: Equity, sustainability and the earth's carrying capacity [sound recording]. |
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Libbey, Jan. Energy in Iowa. Guthrie Center, Iowa: Iowa Association of Naturalists, 1992. |
Lansing, Mich. : Game Division, Dept. of Conservation, 1950. |
Lutz-Zimmerman, Laura Rene. Understanding greenways in Central Iowa : an analysis of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of stakeholder groups involved with the Central Iowa Greenways Framework Plan. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2001. |
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Martin, William. Central Iowa kitchen gardens: the theory and practice of sustainable household food production. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2006. |
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National directory of farmland protection organizations. By Nancy Bushwick and Hal D. Hiemstra. Washington, D.C.: NASDA Research Foundation, Farmland Project, 1983. |
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Nature's Ag school: the Thompson farm. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Regenerative Agriculture Association, 1987. |
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Natural resources of Story County : a selected bibliography of source materials prepared by Story County Natural Resources Inventory Group. Ames, Iowa : The Group, 1998. |
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New patterns on the land. United States Department of Agriculture, 1967. |
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Newlin Dee A. Nature and design : assisting with the healing process. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2006. |
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Patton, Benjamin James. A survey study of planners' perceptions of sustainability. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1998. |
Petrzelka, Peggy. Agricultural sustainability: an examination of farmers' attitudes and behavior. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1991. |
Planting the future: developing an agriculture that sustains land and community. Edited by Elizabeth Ann R. Bird, Gordon L. Bultena, John C. Gardner. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1995. |
Practical Farmers of Iowa. Annual report. Ames, Iowa: Practical Farmers of Iowa, 2003- .
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Rodale's organic family farming. Prepared by the editors of Organic gardening and farming. Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press |
Rohrberg-Johnson, LeAnne M. An evaluation of the effectiveness of three adult environmental education programs in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2002. |
Rossmiller, Ronald, Merwin D. Dougal, T. Al Austin. Land and water resources planning using goal programming. Ames : Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute, Iowa State University, 1979. |
2nd International Crop Science Congress: crop productivity and sustainability, shaping the future, 17-24 November, 1996, New Delhi, India : abstracts of poster sessions. |
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Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Man and the earth. New York: Fox, Duffield & company, 1905. |
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Swander, Mary and Cornelia F. Mutel, Editors. Land of the fragile giants : landscapes, environments, and peoples of the Loess Hills. Iowa City, Iowa: Published for the Brunnier Art Museum at Iowa State University by the University of Iowa Press, c1994. |
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Living with topsoil: tending spirits, cherishing land. North Liberty, Iowa: Ice Cube Press, 2004. |
Test protocols for environmental fate & movement of toxicants: proceedings of a symposium, Association of Official Analytical Chemists, 94th annual meeting, October 21, 22, 1980, Washington, D.C. Arlington, VA: AOAC, 1981. |
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Todd, John and Nancy Jack Todd. Tomorrow is our permanent address: the search for an ecological science of design as embodied in the bioshelter. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. |
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Editors. The village as solar ecology: proceedings of the New Alchemy/Threshold Generic Design Conference, April 16-21, 1979. East Falmouth, MA: New Alchemy Institute, 1980. |
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Todd, Nancy, Editor. The book of the new alchemists. New York: Dutton, 1977. |
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20/20 Vision for Iowa [videorecording] by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2005. |
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Wahlenberg, W.G. Longleaf pine, its use, ecology, regeneration, protection, growth, and management. Washington, D.C.: Charles Lathrop Pack forestry foundation in cooperation with the Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1946. |
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Water Resources Design Conference: Proceedings of the fourth annual Water Resources Design Conference : January 19-20, 1966, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa; sponsored by Department of Civil Engineering with cooperation of Engineering Extension. |
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Water Resources Design Conference: Proceedings of the fifth annual Water Resources Design Conference : January 25-26, 1967, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa; sponsored by Department of Civil Engineering in cooperation with Engineering Extension Service and State Department of Public Instruction, Division of Vocational Education. |
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Which row to hoe?: a regional perspective on alternative directions in commercial agriculture : an interim report. St. Paul, Minnesota: The Northwest Area Foundation, 1992. |
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Who owns the west: sixteen case studies on natural resource ownership. Edited by David M. Diggs, Patrick Sweeney. Montrose, CO : Western Organization of Resource Councils, c1985. |
Compiled by:
Tanya Zanish-Belcher (December 2008)
For further information on the these collections or to discuss the possibility of donating a collection, contact:
Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
Telephone: (515) 294-6672
Fax: (515) 294-3186
archives@iastate.edu





