Environmental History: Associations, Organizations, and Institutes

Mission is to protect farmland, promote sound farming practices, and keep farmers on the land.

Learning center for people working to save farm and ranch land.

Combines national advocacy with field work in key river basins to deliver the greatest impact.

Established in 1881, the American Water Works Association is the largest nonprofit, scientific and educational association dedicated to managing and treating water, the world’s most important resource.

Offers access to emerging conversations and debates, innovative classroom work, as well as some of the finest environmental writing you will find anywhere.

Mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

Mission is to Connect, Empower, and Advance Individuals and Organizations to create a Sustainable, Just and Peaceful Earth.

Nonprofit library and archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating forest and conservation history for all to use.

Aims to encourage, promote, and foster historical understanding of, and research in, the relationship between water and humankind.

One of the United States' leading agencies for history and culture. In addition to preserving important historic sites within national park boundaries, the National Park Service works beyond those boundaries to ensure that everyone's history is saved.

Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Sierra Club History

established in 2004 with the generous support of Lowell and Jan Steinbrenner to change the way the world thinks and acts about the environment. It advances environmental education and research at Carnegie Mellon via felowships, grants, etc.

Since 1997, has focused its attention on sites with complex hurdles hindering development and considers sites in terms of greater community economic development. The Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center provides access to information and research on previous development efforts, education programs for professional practitioners and academics in the field, and site-specific workshops that bring together national experts and local stakeholders to strategize comprehensive development initiatives for municipalities and small business owners.