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  • June 2024

  • Wed 5

    Summer Advocacy Workshop: Alabama Rivers Alliance with UAB Lister Hill Center

    June 5, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Zoom Video Conference

    Join the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy as we host a series of summer advocacy workshops featuring community partners doing on-the-ground work in the field of health policy. These [...]

  • Mon 10

    LWV Voter Education Series: Union 101 for Sweet Home Alabama

    June 10, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    Zoom Video Conference

    On Monday June 10, 2024 at 6:30pm Adam Keller of Alabama Arise and Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) will reprise their discussion of what unions do, who [...]

  • July 2024

  • Tue 30

    Solar Careers in Alabama Educational Virtual Networking Event with Energy Alabama

    July 30, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    Zoom Video Conference

    Calling all educators! Teachers can earn 1 AMSTI Professional Development credit and help your student explore exciting careers in solar energy. Join Energy Alabama's virtual networking event with industry professionals!

  • August 2024

  • Tue 20

    Water is Life: Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

    August 20, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Zoom Video Conference

    Beat the summer heat and join us from the comfort of your own home or office for our Water Is Life Summer Reading Zoom Series! We are excited to feature [...]

  • Tue 27

    Public Meeting for USACE Invasive Species Proposal

    August 27, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Public Meeting for USACE Invasive Species Proposal
    Lauderdale Co. Extension Office Veterans Drive, Florence, AL, United States

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District prepared a Draft Program Management Plan (PgMP) and a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PgEA) and unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) [...]

  • Thu 29

    Public Meeting for USACE Invasive Species Proposal

    August 29, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Public Meeting for USACE Invasive Species Proposal
    Lauderdale Co. Extension Office Veterans Drive, Florence, AL, United States

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District prepared a Draft Program Management Plan (PgMP) and a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PgEA) and unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) [...]

  • October 2024

  • Tue 22

    Water is Life: Get Out the Vote!

    October 22, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Zoom Video Conference

    Water is Life: Get Out the Vote! with League of Women Voters of Alabama and  Alabama State Conference of the NAACP It's time again to exercise your responsibility to vote [...]

    Free
  • Thu 24

    Shake the Field Book Club October Meeting

    October 24, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    Virtual!

    To shake the field, we need to know the field. The Shake the Field Book Club is a chance to dig deep into social movement reality, strategy, and history. Each [...]

  • December 2024

  • Thu 5

    The People’s Justice Council’s Giving Tuesday Virtual Event

    December 5, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    Virtual!

    Join the People's Justice Council for their Giving Tuesday Virtual Fundraising Event, "Help the People, Heal the Planet!" This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to be part of a meaningful [...]

  • Thu 5

    Using Biomimicry to Enhance Energy Education with Energy Alabama

    December 5, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Virtual!

    Attention Teachers! Join Energy Alabama and Biomimicry Institute for this exciting virtual training! Using STEAM concepts, explore how biomimicry can help your students think outside the box about renewable energy! [...]

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About ARA
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama’s water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Click here to read a summary of our 2023 – 2027 Strategic Plan.
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  • ARA’s Deputy Director Recognized with Unsung Hero Award!
  • Tell Birmingham City Council Don’t Water Down the Data Center Ordinance!
  • This legislative session was a doozy!
  • Happy Rivers of Alabama Day!
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HUNTSVILLE, we'll see you Wednesday at @campus805' HUNTSVILLE, we'll see you Wednesday at @campus805's cafeteria with @hsv_environment and the NEW #SouthernExposure Films! We'll also have a discussion afterwards with @revcbgilliam. Learn more about the films and see the trailers from our bio.

Wednesday, May 13 at Campus 805’s Cafeteria Mix and Mingling at 5:30 pm | Films start at 6:30 pm | Q&A + Discussion After| Delicious Food While It Lasts – Plus Cash Bar!
 
Created in six weeks during the summer, the Southern Exposure Films celebrate special people and nature in Alabama, while discovering hidden treasures and exploring complex issues.

#SouthernExposure #Huntsville #MadisonCounty #hsv #AlabamaRivers #Alabama #Madison #DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #DataCenters #BelleMina #Salamanders #Salabama #RiversGift
Earlier this week, we had the honor of recognizing Earlier this week, we had the honor of recognizing Kelly Marshall, ARA’s Deputy Director and Southern Exposure’s Impact Producer, with the *UNSUNG HERO* award for her outstanding public service, and so much more at UAB Department of Political Science (@uabpspa) and Public Administration’s Alabama Public Service Training Initiative annual celebration dinner.

Michele Forman (UAB’s Director of Media Studies and Southern Exposure Film’s Series Producer), Cindy Lowry (ARA’s executive director) and David Butler (Cahaba River Coalition) all separately nominated her, which illustrates her reach across the environmental community and beyond. Take a look at some excerpts from her nomination letters in the photos below and join us in saying HIP HIP HOORAY to Kelly and her work throughout Alabama protecting and defending our rivers and streams!
Last week, Birmingham City Council heard that Birm Last week, Birmingham City Council heard that Birmingham residents want more stringent controls on data center development, including larger setbacks from residential neighborhoods and more specific requirements on how data centers use shared resources like our drinking water, electric, and wastewater systems. The City Council also heard from big business that the Council should remove the “special exception” process that allows communities to have a voice when hyperscale data centers are proposed in certain areas of the city. 

The city council decided to delay a final vote on Birmingham’s data center regulations so they can incorporate citizens’ feedback. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME NOW TO tell them to maintain the proposed protections, and to continue to allow citizens to have input through the special exception process for hyperscale data centers in light industrial and office park areas.

Send your letter from the link in bio and tell your Birmingham City Councilors what you want to see in a data center ordinance! 

#WaterIsLife #DefendRivers #AlabamaRivers #DataCenters #BirminghamAL #Birmingham #Bham
Join ARA and @southernenvironment tomorrow (Tuesda Join ARA and @southernenvironment tomorrow (Tuesday, April 28) at @auburnuufellowship to learn more about the proposed SSE4 pipeline expansion through #LeeCounty!

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A proposed methane gas pipeline expansion is coming straight through Lee County, and your community deserves to know the facts.

Alabama Rivers Alliance (@alabamarivers  ARA) is joining forces with BlackBelt Women Rising @blackbeltwr, Senator Robert Stewart, and local leaders to host a series of community meetings along the pipeline’s path. The Lee County meeting is coming up, and you are invited.

Tuesday, April 28 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
450 E Thach Ave, Auburn AL
Free pizza and drinks provided.

At this free public meeting, you will see up-to-date maps of exactly where the new pipelines would go, learn how the project could impact your property, and get a clear explanation of the FERC process and how to formally participate.

All are welcome. 

Please share with friends, family, and neighbors in the Auburn and Lee County area.

#AuburnAL #alabamarivers #auburnalabama  #LeeCounty PipelineAwareness CleanEnergy CommunityMeeting FERC TakeAction alabamariversalliance blackbeltwomenrising auburnuufellowship
THIS TUESDAY (April 28), at 9:30 am, the Birmingha THIS TUESDAY (April 28), at 9:30 am, the Birmingham City Council will decide whether to adopt a new ordinance regulating data centers within the city limits. This comes a few months after the city passed a first-in-Alabama temporary moratorium on data centers.

The proposed regulations would be some of the strongest in the Southeast. They would require closed-loop cooling systems in larger data centers, minimizing the use of water in these facilities and preventing increased demands on drinking water supplies that can drive up water utility bills.

Birmingham residents, please send your city councilors an email [from the link in bio!] (or text or call if you know them personally!) letting them know that you support the proposed ordinance, and celebrating the fact that Birmingham has an opportunity to be among the first cities in the state to meaningfully protect their residents from the impacts of all hyperscale data centers. It’s critical to let the city council know that not only do you support the ordinance, but you also support efforts to ensure no big tech company gets a blank check from Birmingham.

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO?

If you’re able, you can also join us and testify in person at the City Council meeting this Tuesday, April 28 at 9:30 am! We recommend arriving about 30 minutes early to ensure that you can grab a seat. City Council meets on the 3rd Floor of City Hall, located at 710 20th Street North in downtown Birmingham.

#DataCenters #Bham #Birmingham #WaterIsLife #DefendRivers
Alabama's 2026 legislative session has ended, and Alabama's 2026 legislative session has ended, and boy was it a doozy!

Traditionally, election years are quiet affairs in the Alabama Legislature. Legislators want to get down to Montgomery, pass budgets quickly, and get back out on the campaign trail. They typically try to avoid controversial topics and deliver some meaningful wins for their constituents.

I say traditionally, because that was definitely not the case in 2026! Big-money lobbyists from Montgomery and DC, whose purse- and puppet-strings are controlled by powerful interests (including some from outside our state) had other ideas. They packed committee agendas and House and Senate calendars with a multitude of bills to benefit the special interests that pay them. Unfortunately, some legislators chose to listen to them over the people of Alabama.

Read the full legislative recap from Charles Miller (@crmiv), ARA's Policy Director, on our website, from the link in bio. 

FIRST PIC: Alabamians from all over dropped what they were doing and joined ARA and our partners in Montgomery on extra short notice to tell our elected officials face to face how dangerous this bill will be to our rivers and streams. They joined the thousands of voices online!

SECOND PIC: We Dare Defend Our Rivers and Our Rights!

THIRD PIC: After two hours of robust opposition, thousands of letters, and countless phone calls and meetings, unfortunately SB 71 has passed. Do you see how your House Rep voted?

#WaterIsLife #DefendRivers #ALPolitics #Alabama #AlabamaRivers
Happy Rivers of Alabama Day from ARA and our 100+ Happy Rivers of Alabama Day from ARA and our 100+ partners across the state! We hope you are able to take a moment today to celebrate our 132,000+ miles of rivers and streams by dipping a toe in a creek, toasting to our unmatched biodiversity, thanking a River Hero, letting our elected officials know you want our drinking water protected from polluting industries and more! 

HUGE thank you to Ms. Blackwell's class for sharing with us what they learned last week about Alabama's great seal and our amazing rivers! 

Learn more about Rivers of Alabama Day from our link in bio and let us know how you plan to celebrate! 

#RiversOfAlabamaDay #AlabamaRivers #RiversAlabama #WaldorfSchool #DefendRivers #WaterIsLife #ALPolitics #Alabama
HUNTSVILLE! Mark your calendars now and join Alaba HUNTSVILLE! Mark your calendars now and join Alabama Rivers Alliance and Huntsville Environmental Coalition for the FREE screening of the NEW Southern Exposure Films on May 13! Don’t miss this eagerly awaited night of storytelling that will inspire, ignite and unite us all as we work together protect Alabama’s waterways, communities, land and air. 

Thursday, May 13 at Campus 805’s Campus Cafeteria
Mix and Mingling at 5:30 pm | Films start at 6:30 pm 
Q&A + Discussion After
Delicious Food While It Lasts – Plus Cash Bar!
 
Created in six weeks during the summer, the Southern Exposure Films celebrate special people and nature in Alabama, while discovering hidden treasures and exploring complex issues. Learn more at our link in bio!

#AlabamaRivers #Huntsville #HuntsvilleAL #HSV #DefendRivers #SouthernExposure
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