The Alenka Bizjak Environmental Collection is based on Alenka Bizjak's professional work as a lawyer and activism in the period from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 2000s. Bizjak was an active member of the environmental movement in Slovenia since the 1970s. The movement sought to warn the Slovenian and Yugoslav public of the harmfulness of large industrial facilities and hydroelectric plants on the Rivers Soča, Idrija, Mura and Sava and Lake Cerknica and prevent their construction. The collection is interesting because it attests to the culture of dissent in Yugoslavia in the form of a civil society campaign and its struggle for the affirmation of environmental issues that directly obstructed governmental plans for the construction of power facilities.
Die 1987 in Grosshennersdorf gegründete Umweltbibliothek bezeugt mit ihrem Archiv Bürgerbewegung, dass es in der DDR Opposition und zahlreiche Formen des Protests auch außerhalb der großen Städte gegeben hatte. Durch ihre besondere Lage im Dreiländerck mit Polen und der früheren CSSR werden auch transnationale Einflüsse sichtbar.