Transcriptions of Dr. Albert Burke's educational television show, "A Way of Thinking," broadcast from 1960-1962.

This collection houses the records of the Energy, Environment, and Resource Center created between the 1930s and 1990. Of particular interest is the material documenting well-known environmentalist Benton MacKaye.

This collection houses records produced by the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment, and Resource Center in the 1970s.

This collection consists of photocopied newspaper clippings from 1983 to 1986 detailing mercury loss into East Fork Poplar Creek in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from the Y-12 plant. The clippings include documentation of public controversy and fear surrounding this revealed exposure by the Department of Energy in addition to the subsequent Congressional hearing and later efforts to clean up the environment contaminated by the mercury loss.

This collection houses annual reports (1982-1986; 1983 missing), copies of the SOCM Sentinel (1983-1987), a brochure, and copies of two stories published in the Knoxville News-Sentinel (1986-1987) documenting the Tennessee activist group Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM).

This collection houses records documenting the University of Tennessee's Tennessee Energy Conservation in Housing (TECH) project. The program's goal was to develop solar-powered homes to combat the energy crisis of the mid 1970s.

Materials included are meteorological summary reports for Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1911 to 1949.

Materials included are reports on the drought of 1913 from the USDA and four volumes of Tennessee section records of the monthly mean temperature and monthly total precipitation from January 1, 1898 to December 31, 1930.