I’m sick of Halloween. I used to like it, but the sales push starts too early these days. When I was a kid, nobody thought about goblins and ghouls until about Oct. 27. I even got a Halloween-themed n

SweetWater Brewing Company of Atlanta, Ga., has completed its second annual “Save the Black Warrior” fundraiser, designed to raise money for Black Warrior Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental group

The Moss Rock Festival, scheduled for Nov. 7-8 at The Preserve, a residential development adjacent to the 250-acre Moss Rock Preserve in Hoover, bills itself as a celebration of the connections betwee

The Moss Rock Festival, a unique outdoor fall event and a celebration of the connections between art, design and the natural world, is scheduled to return to The Preserve in Hoover for the fourth year

Hey, you know a walk would do you good, so why not join the Friends of the Locust Fork River on their annual hike from Swann Covered Bridge to Powell Falls and back on Saturday, Oct. 24? If you wis

Ah, yes, it’s deadline day again, and I have to produce yet another green feature. But what can I write about? I have nothing prepped. And Madison Underwood, my partner-in-crime when it comes to green

It’s been three weeks since several of the world’s leading green building experts, including famed Indian architect Karan Grover, came to Birmingham and worked with a group of local architects, consul

Are you a city dweller who feels isolated from nature? Do you ever find yourself, in the words of clinical psychologist Cole Porter, "fighting vainly that old ennui"? No? Well, good. Pop another beer

According to an e-mail we received from Black Warrior Riverkeeper, volunteers are needed for a clean-up on Five Mile Creek on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 9 a.m.-noon. [caption id="attac

A few volunteer opportunities remain in the 2009 Renew Our Rivers waterway clean-up program sponsored by Alabama Power. According to the company’s web site, there’s a clean-up scheduled for Saturda