SLUDGED! Free Fertilizer? Hmmm….. Presented by Julie Lay How one former industrial agriculture employee discovered municipality and industrial waste water sludge being used as fertilizer on crop land. What she found out, how it impacts YOU, and what you can do. Julie Lay holds a BS in Animal Science from Auburn University and is a former Industrial [...]
Join us in Montgomery to Rally for Rivers on the Capitol Steps and call on our elected officials to work with us to protect clean water for all. As our legislators adjourn their regular session to hit the campaign trial, we will hear from speakers from all across the state about successes and challenges facing [...]
Join Alabama Rivers Alliance and Mobile Baykeeper for the FREE screening of the 2021 Southern Exposure documentary films. Q & A and discussion afterwards with Cade Kistler (Mobile Baykeeper and featured in Wastewater: A Tale of Two Cities) and more! Created in six short weeks this summer, the 2021 Southern Exposure films celebrate special people [...]
The next in-person meeting of the Sierra Club Montgomery group will be on Thursday, Sep. 15, 7:00 PM, in Room 111 of Goodwyn Hall on the campus of Auburn University-Montgomery (just north of the tall Library Tower on the south side of campus). Parking is available in any white-lined space. One of our speakers will [...]
Water is Life: Clean Water Act Celebration with Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC). As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act -- one of the most monumental bipartisan laws ever passed by Congress -- we find ourselves reflecting on how to celebrate the incredible success of this law, [...]
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with ARA and friends in Birmingham at Rojo with films highlighting the role the law has played in protecting Alabama's waters. ARA and partners will be on hand to answer questions and celebrate this monumental bipartisan law. 10% of the sales of all food and drinks [...]
Water is Life: Methane Emissions from Hydropower Reservoirs with Kelly Catlett (American Rivers), Sam Bickley (Virginia Scientist-Community Interface) and Jack West (Alabama Rivers Alliance). Following on the heels of ARA and V-SCI's recently published work showing that hydropower reservoirs in Alabama create and emit significant amounts of methane, join us on Tuesday, November 8 from [...]
Friends of the Alabama River is excited to host this monthly gathering at the Hilltop Public House in Montgomery. These events are informal monthly meetups, but we will take the opportunity to highlight the important work of environmental and social justice organizations in our community. Additionally, there will be time for those interested to share [...]
Greater Birmingham Ministries is excited to announce that Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will be the keynote speaker on Friday, October 20th at an interactive conference aiming to dig [...]
Friends of Shades Creek's October meeting (10/12 at 7:00 to 8:30 P.M.) will feature Maggie Amsler, Research Associate, UAB Department of Biology, presenting on her work from over thirty trips to Antarctica! In 2017, Amsler was on one of the first-ever cruises using manned submersibles to document sea floor communities in Antarctica. It is likely [...]
