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Organizations File, 1919-1980 (continued)
Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), 1951-1980 (continued)
BOX 393 Soil and Aquatic Task Force, 1969-1970
BOX 393 Space needs, 1971-1978
(2 folders)
BOX 393 Speeches and writings
BOX 393 1966-1969
(2 folders)
BOX 394 1970-1972
(7 folders)
BOX 395 1973-1976
(7 folders)
BOX 396 1976-1978
(7 folders)
BOX 397 1979-1980
(2 folders)
BOX 397 Urban Task Force, 1969-1971
BOX 397-402 Committee for Environmental Information (CEI), 1959-1974
After the passage of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, the Committee for Nuclear Information expanded its mission to include other environmental policy issues and changed its name to the Committee for Environmental Information. Commoner continued in a leadership position. The file includes material on nuclear testing and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and their publications C.E. Eye, Environment, and Scientist and Citizen.
Material types include correspondence, committee and board of directors records, financial records, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type.
BOX 397 Board of Directors, 1967-1974
(3 folders)
BOX 397 Budgets, 1967-1972
BOX 397 Clippings, 1968-1971
BOX 397 Committees, 1964-1973
(2 folders)
BOX 398 Correspondence, 1967-1974
(4 folders)
BOX 398 Dugway Proving Ground, 1968-1969
BOX 398 Fundraising, 1968-1972
(2 folders)
BOX 398 Nuclear testing, 1959-1969
BOX 399 Nuclear testing, 1959-1969
(6 folders)
BOX 399 Publications
BOX 399 C.E. Eye, 1972-1973
BOX 399 Environment, 1969-1974
BOX 400 Environment, 1969-1974
(7 folders)
BOX 401 Scientist and Citizen, 1966-1968
(6 folders)
BOX 402 Scientist and Citizen, 1966-1968
BOX 402 Purpose statements, 1967-1970
BOX 402 Research proposals, 1968-1971
BOX 402 Scientific division, 1967-1971
(2 folders)
BOX 402-406 Greater St. Louis Citizens' Committee for Nuclear Information (CNI), 1958-1968
Organized in 1958 by a group of scientists, including Commoner, and concerned citizens in St. Louis, Missouri, who believed the public should have accurate information about nuclear energy and radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing. Material from the Baby Tooth Survey and the biological effects of radioactive fallout is included here. The organization was one of many committees around the country whose shared name was the Committee for Nuclear Information (CNI). More files pertaining to this organization and the publication Nuclear Information are in the 2019 Addition.
Material types include correspondence, financial records, grant proposals, minutes of meetings, press releases, printed material, and testimonies.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type.
BOX 402 Baby tooth survey, 1958-1968, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 402 Civil defense, 1960-1962, undated
BOX 403 Correspondence
BOX 403 1958-1962
(8 folders)
BOX 404 1963-1967
(5 folders)
BOX 404 Draft paper, 1966-1967
BOX 404 Financial records, 1966-1967
BOX 404 General, circa 1958-circa 1963
(2 folders)
BOX 405 General, circa 1958-circa 1963
(4 folders)
BOX 405 Grant proposals, circa 1963-1966
(3 folders)
BOX 405 Leitenberg, Milton, 1966-1967
BOX 406 Minutes of meetings, 1959-1967
BOX 406 Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed matter, 1958-1964
BOX 406 Nuclear Information, 1958-1964
BOX 406 Other science information organizations, 1960-1963, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 406 Presidential election, 1964
BOX 406 Press releases, 1959-1962
BOX 406 Project Harbor, 1965-1967
BOX 406 Testimonies, 1963-1966
BOX 406-413 Scientists' Institute for Public Information (SIPI) , 1963-1975
Founded in 1963 by Commoner and others as a coordinating body for twenty-three regional Committees for Nuclear/Environmental Information. Over time, the affiliates ceased operating and SIPI inherited the mission of delivering accurate scientific information to the public on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public policy. More files pertaining to SIPI are in the 2019 Addition.
Material types include correspondence, newsletters, press releases, meeting agendas and minutes, and financial material.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type.
BOX 406 Annual meetings, 1973-1974
BOX 407 Bantam Lecture Bureau, 1972
BOX 407 Board of Directors, 1963-1973
(3 folders)
BOX 407 Budget, 1963-1973
BOX 407 Cayuga Lake, N.Y., 1968-1969
BOX 407 Committees, 1963-1973
(2 folders)
BOX 408 Correspondence, 1963-1974
(6 folders)
BOX 409 Energy Convocation, 1973-1975
(6 folders)
BOX 410 Energy Convocation, 1973-1975
(6 folders)
BOX 411 Environmental News Service, 1972-1973
BOX 411 Fellows, 1971-1973
BOX 411 First Spectrum Fund, 1972-1973
BOX 411 Fundraising, 1970-1973
BOX 411 Grants, 1964-1974
(3 folders)
BOX 412 Memoranda, 1964-1971
(2 folders)
BOX 412 Michigan Information Movement, 1968-1969
BOX 412 National Association for the Environment proposal, 1970
BOX 412 Newsletters, 1970-1973
BOX 412 Press releases, 1963-1974
BOX 412 Scientists' Inst. for Pub. Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Comm'n, et. al., 1972-1974 See also containers 313-316, Liquid fast breeder reactors
(2 folders)
BOX 413 Scientists' Inst. for Pub. Information, Inc. v. Atomic Energy Comm'n, et. al., 1972-1974
(2 folders)
BOX 413 Statement of purpose and bylaws, 1965-1972
BOX 413 Transfer of Environment magazine, 1971-1972
(2 folders)
BOX 413 Workbooks, 1969-1970
BOX 413 Workshop, 1968
BOX 414-441 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1948-1975
Items from Commoner's faculty membership at the university with a focus on the activities of the botany and other science departments.
Material types include corrrespondence, reports, grants, financial material, course outlines and papers, and faculty and university communications.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type.
BOX 414 Accounting, 1966-1973
(2 folders)
BOX 414 Admissions, 1960-1969
BOX 414 Adolphus Busch III Laboratory of Biology, 1956-1959
(2 folders)
BOX 414 Atomic energy byproduct license, 1957-1968
BOX 415 Biology Department, 1962-1978
(6 folders)
BOX 416 Biology Department, 1962-1978
(2 folders)
BOX 416 Botany Department
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