We are BEYOND excited to announce the 2022 Southern Exposure films will have their HOMECOMING in-person screening at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham (August 21-27)! Taxing the Sun BJCC Theatre Saturday, August 26 • 3:15 pm Click here for more information. See Me In Nature and Our [...]
Alternating between Friday and Saturday typically (but not always) on the last weekend of the month, Wild Alabama’s Janice Barrett teams up with writer and teacher Anne Markham Bailey, founder of Forest Bathing Alabama to offer walks in what the Japanese call Shinrin Yoku, or literally translated, wood-air bathing, or forest bathing. A forest bathing [...]
The Annual Alabama Water Resources Conference is a forum for all participants of our water resources community, providing opportunities for conversation about the many multidisciplinary aspects of water resources, and making connections that will improve how we understand the complex water issues that are of importance to this state, the region, and the nation. The Conference [...]
Join us on this guided one-hour walking tour of the Clear Creek Nature Trail where you will learn how townspeople of Cahawba used the local plants and resources of the area to adapt to their ports being blockaded during the Civil War. You will also learn how to identify various trees and plants along the [...]
For years, advocates have been sounding alarm bells about the dangers of coal ash sitting in groundwater in unlined pits alongside our rivers and even threatening our drinking water sources. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) created a dangerous plan to permanently store toxic coal ash in these unlined pits - violating federal standards. [...]
Mobile Baykeeper will be hosting an informative FAQ session on September 13, focused on the upcoming Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing concerning coal ash regulations. The in-person hearing is scheduled for September 20 in Montgomery, with the virtual hearing taking place on September 27. Earlier this month the EPA proposed denying Alabama’s unsafe coal-ash [...]
Join us to on National clean up litter and remove invasive wild taro from the Cahaba River! We will meet at 9:00 AM at the NORTH ENTRANCE of the Hoover East Sports Complex. We will pick partners and boats and pass out gear here before headed down to the Lorna Rd take out to drop [...]
Join the League of Women Voters of Alabama's Environmental Series -- Alabama Waste Sludge Awareness!! Julie Lay will discuss the practice and hazards of the land application of biosloids in this next program in the League of Women Voters of Alabama's Environmental Education Series. Often referred to as waste sludge, the nutrient value is often [...]
Tell Alabama utilities: Move Your Ash! Alabama's waterways are at a crossroads, and we need YOUR voice to tip the scales towards protection and restoration. After years of setbacks, we finally have a chance to make a real difference. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding public hearings on Alabama Power's coal ash program, and we [...]
Your Town Alabama is a workshop that provides community leaders with critical tools for organizing, recruiting, and strategically developing community and economic development projects while retaining the things that make a small or rural town special.
