Budgets are moral documents. Let's put our money where our values are. Our budget priorities should reflect our commitment to advancing economic and racial justice. Click here to register.
Water is Life: Caves and Quarries featuring Michael Ray Taylor (author, Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves) and Vicki Carroll (Neighborhood Preservation Coalition) Join us Tuesday as we gently lower ourselves into the delicate environment of the southern cave system. We'll learn about the truly awesome cave springs throughout the Southeast and particularly in Alabama. We'll [...]
Cahaba River Society's annual meeting is a chance for our community to come together, learn about the biggest challenges facing the Cahaba, find out what we are doing to address them, and what YOU can do to help. Click here to learn more This year's program will include: Honor retired CRS Field Director Dr. Randy [...]
Protecting and Promoting Native Fish with Matt Lewis (Native Fish Coalition, Alabama Chapter), Bob Mallard (Native Fish Coalition) and Emily Bastian (Native Fish Coalition). Alabama is said to be home to more species of fish — more than 450 in 29 families — than any state or province in North America. Join us Tuesday as [...]
What does it mean to "ecologically reconnect" water ways? What would a feasibility study entail and what do we hope to learn? Why is it important to reconnect the Alabama River and the Cahaba River to the Gulf of Mexico? Join us at 3:00 PM on Thursday, February 11th as Jason Throneberry, Director of Freshwater Programs [...]
The League of Women Voters of Greater Birmingham presents ... Environmental Issues in Alabama and How You Can Help with Cindy Lowry (Alabama Rivers Alliance), Nina Morgan (Gasp) and Stephen Stetson (Sierra Club) Register https://bit.ly/3syZ0oV
Water is Life: With the Sierra Club with Steven DeCaprio and Stephen Stetson The Sierra Club is the oldest environmental organization in the country and they have a long history of partnering with groups like the Alabama Rivers Alliance right here in Alabama. They are a volunteer led organization working to protect our environment [...]
In the next installment of our ongoing Zoom webinar series, the Alabama Environmental Youth Council (AEYC) will be featuring Dr. James McClintock, Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at UAB! Dr. McClintock, a world-renowned expert on Antarctic marine ecology, will be giving a presentation entitled ‘From Penguins to Plankton – the Dramatic Impacts of Climate [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 16th, and space is limited. The Audubon Bird Mural Project, sponsored in part by the National Audubon Society, is an impressive effort to create murals of over 300 North American birds. Most of the murals are in the Harlem neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, [...]
Water is Life: With Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust with Majadi Baruti and Susan Diane Mitchell. Community leaders and activists all across Alabama are taking matters into their own hands to protect their communities' right to clean water, public health, and affordable property ownership. Building on an inspiring legacy of civil rights and black entrepreneurship, [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 23rd, and space is limited. Birding in Alabama is a seasonal feast. In spring, neotropical migrants from Central and South America make the perilous trip across or around the Gulf of Mexico, headed north. Some pass through Alabama on their way to the northern US and [...]
Enjoy performances by an all-star lineup while supporting clean water in your community.
Water is Life: Riparian Forests with Michelle Blackwood & Henry Hughes (Friends of Shades Creek). There are many ways to protect a watershed, but one of the most effective ways is to protect the forest that surrounds it, known as a riparian forest. Friends of Shades Creek began in 1998 with a campaign to protect [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 23rd, and space is limited. Birding in Alabama is a seasonal feast. In spring, neotropical migrants from Central and South America make the perilous trip across or around the Gulf of Mexico, headed north. Some pass through Alabama on their way to the northern US and [...]