Gasp, Alabama Interfaith Power and Light, and Sierra Club are all joining together to sponsor the most recent event in a statewide tour focusing on environmental justice. Previous events in Montgomery, Birmingham and Mobile have had nationally-renowned speakers and skills-based training sessions. Stay tuned for more details.
Clay, Alabama sits adjacent to Trussville - not far from the Birmingham metropolitan area – and is home to nearly 10,000 residents. Since Clay does not have its own zip code, residents have a Pinson, Alabama street address but Pinson itself is home to another 7,000 residents. The area is sometimes referred to as Clay-Pinson. [...]
Industries and municipalities produce a waste stream that is being spread on farm fields and property across Alabama and touted as "fertilizer". These sludges are known to have pollutants that harm human health and negatively impact quality of life, water quality, and due to the putrid odor, diminish property values. Julie Lay, an advocate for [...]
Award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker Ben Raines has created a new documentary titled The Carnivorous Kingdom, which explores one of the most diverse places on Earth: pitcher plant bogs. Filmed with ultra close macro videography, The Carnivorous Kingdom explores a kill-or-be-killed jungle where the plants are the lions, and everything else is on the menu. [...]
The Carnivorous Kingdom, a new documentary by Alabama filmmaker Ben Raines offering a rare view into Alabama’s secret world of flesh-eating plants, will have its Alabama Public Television broadcast premiere on Wednesday, August 24th at 7:00 p.m. Created for Alabama Public Television, Alabama schools, and libraries, the film is co-produced by the Poarch Band of [...]
Join Sierra Club for a free screening of Descendant, an educational film about the descendants of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last known ship to carry enslaved Africans to the Americas. The film centers on Africatown, a community in Mobile, where Clotilda survivors and their families bought land and built a life. Descendant explores [...]