Preserving the legacy of Bay Area Action’s environmental work from 1990–2000 and beyond.
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Our goal is to raise $120k in order to digitize over 13,500 documents, photos, videos, and more, then put them online so they become part of the historical record for all time. Our stretch goal is to produce a book. environment
Photos collected so far
Documents scanned so far
We want your stories! Tell us how you got involved, about your pet project, your favorite story. You were part of something big! Your story should be part of the historical record.
Help us make this project happen!
Digitize and organize the BAA Archives so the internet can remember the 1990s environmental movement.
Goal:
$60,000
Raised:
$7,835
Find a permanent home for the BAA Archives so that when we all die, the Internet doesn't forget.
Goal:
$15,000
Raised:
$2,600
Tell the stories of the people touched by BAA over ten years.
Goal:
$35,000
Raised:
$1,000
Some of the articles, newsletters, photos, and documents we’ve put online so far...
Earth Day began on April 22, 1970, when millions of Americans participated in creative and dramatic public demonstrations to raise awareness about environmental issues, sparking the modern environmental movement and leading to major policy changes.
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BAA alum Olya Milenkaya spent the summer of 2003 with Audubon’s Project Puffin on Maine’s islands — banding terns, monitoring puffin burrows, and tracking chick diets — hands-on science shaping her path in conservation.
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Bay Area Action’s direct actions in the 1990s ranged from rallies, sit-ins, and tree-sits, to creative tactics like costumed protests, theatrical demonstrations, and giant “human signs,” to confront environmental destruction and corporate power.
Read MoreThe surroundings and conditions, both natural and human-made, in which living organisms exist and interact.
In a scientific or ecological context, the environment is defined as the sum total of all external physical, chemical, and biological factors — both living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) — that surround and influence the survival, development, and evolution of an organism or population, encompassing everything from climate and soil to other organisms and natural resources.
The organization formed from the merger of Bay Area Action and the Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation in 2001. The name Acterra was formed from action and Terra (Earth).
