Alabama Rivers Alliance hosts water conference

This year's conference will feature the first-ever Alabama Water Rally, a four-day event designed to inform participants about key water issues affecting the state

PROTECTING ALABAMA’S WATER: Environmental leaders from across Alabama will gather in Montgomery for the 12th-annual Watershed Leadership Conference hosted by the Alabama Rivers Alliance from Feb. 27 t

A sentimental journey with pianist Barb Sparkes

Sparkes and storyteller Dolores Hydock recreate WWII era

By Jesse Chambers

When Barb Sparkes was only 5 years old, she picked out “Jingle Bells” on the piano, just playing by ear. That was in the 1930s, and the Indiana native has been playing music ever since. She took pi

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Smart kids make green easy

By Jesse Chambers

AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD US: According to a news release from the Friends of P.S. 166, that public elementary school on New York’s Upper West Side is one of 128 schools in 21 states enrolled in the

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Stuff your face & fight hunger

Several Alabama groups are Fed Up With Hunger

By Jesse Chambers

The Birmingham Jewish Federation, Alabama Possible, and civic group Catalyst are teaming up on Thursday, Jan. 21, for Fed Up With Hunger, an event designed to help raise awareness of hunger on two con

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Forever Wild forever?

A coalition of Alabama business, conservation, and environmental leaders have stepped forward to protect the successful program

By Jesse Chambers

A coalition of Alabama business, conservation, and environmental leaders have stepped forward to urge that Forever Wild, the state’s public lands preservation program, be reauthorized. The Protect For

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RIP Joe Shannon

Remembrance of Birmingham Bay of Pigs veteran

By Jesse Chambers

Lt. Col. Joseph Lewis Shannon led an amazing life. He met Charles Lindbergh when the aviator landed at Robert’s Field in Birmingham in 1927 during the barnstorming tour that followed his historic

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Ore. firm aids in carbon compliance

Carbon Concierge helps firms assess their carbon output

By Jesse Chambers

You may not give a shit about global warming or believe humans can do anything about it, but if you own a business, you will likely be affected by increasing government restrictions on carbon emission

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Green jobs for all

Ensuring equal access to green jobs in L.A.

By Jesse Chambers

If it’s true that we’re in the nascent stages of an economic “green revolution,” with an increasing number of “green” jobs, then it’s important to ensure equal access to those jobs for everyone, inclu

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Studying gravestones to track changes in Earth's chemistry

TALKIN’ GRAVESTONE BLUES: According to a news release from the Geological Society of America, studying gravestones can help us track changes over time in the earth’s rainfall and atmospheric chemistry.

By Jesse Chambers

TALKIN’ GRAVESTONE BLUES: According to a news release from the Geological Society of America, studying gravestones can help us track changes over time in the earth’s rainfall and atmospheric chemistry

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Dan Satterfield goes to the South Pole

HEY, IT’S COLD AT THE F**KIN’ POLE: Dan Satterfield, a meteorologist at WHNT TV in Huntsville, Ala., is going to the South Pole in January 2010

By Jesse Chambers

HEY, IT’S COLD AT THE F**KIN’ POLE: Dan Satterfield, a meteorologist at WHNT TV in Huntsville, Ala., is going to the South Pole in January 2010 as part of a National Science Foundation educational mis