Resource Library: Environment

Reports, research, and web-based resources — created both by McKnight and by our partners and other field leaders — that address the ideas and issues at play in our work.

Limit to McKnight-funded reports
  • Climatecentraltn
    Climate Central
    August 2013 - ​An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.
    www.climatecentral.org
  • Stateoftheriver
    State of the River
    ​Companion website to the Friends of the Mississippi State of the River Report, which highlights 13 key indicators of river health and details the results in ways that non-scientists can understand.
    www.stateoftheriver.com
  • Meeatn
    Midwest Energy Efficiency Resource Guide for Policymakers
    With $1.7 billion expected to be spent on Energy Efficiency in the Midwest by 2015, a new resource guide from the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance gives policymakers proven successes from across the region.
    PDF, 11.2 MB
  • Fern_tn
    Food and Environment Reporting Network
    ​The Food & Environment Reporting Network, Inc., is an independent, non-profit news organization that produces investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health. 
    http://thefern.org
  • Headwaterstn
    Traveling Upstream: Improving Water Quality of the Mississippi River
    June 2005 - Results and recommendations from a Headwaters survey of nonprofits and state/federal agencies regarding opportunities to improve the water quality of the Mississippi River.
    PDF (247 KB)
  • A Study of McKnight's Mississippi River Program: Executive Summary
    December 2009 - Headwaters Group Philanthropic Services. Research and recommendations which informed the 2009 revision of McKnight's Mississippi River program guidelines. 
    PDF, 713 KB
  • User's Guide: Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
    Follow-up to the McKnight-funded 2008 National Research Council report.
    PDF, 4 MB
  • Defining "We" In Environmental Advocacy
    This new must-read booklet for every environmental advocate discusses the importance of language in explaining and advancing advocacy work.
    Full report (PDF, 430 KB)