In a five-to-four vote, Birmingham’s City Council elected Councilor Roderick Royal as its new President Tuesday morning, making him acting mayor until voters select a new mayor in a special election.

In an opinion piece published in the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday. Michael W. Mullen says Trey Glenn, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, supplied the Alabama Enviro

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley says eight local governments have received more than $1 million dollars in grants for recycling programs from the Alabama Recycling Fund. That cash came from a $1-per-ton fee on

Supporters are rallying to extend Alabama’s successful Forever Wild land conservation program before it expires in 2012, wrote John S. Peck in a Monday opinion piece for the Huntsville Times editorial

Art and nature have been intertwined since prehistory, when early man took to painting pictures of horses and other wildlife on the walls of caves. The Freshwater Land Trust (FLT) is celebrating the c

Once, when I was an adolescent, a college-aged youth minister came and spoke at our school’s Monday morning devotional (it was a private school). He told us that you can do anything for Jesus, and in

Editor's note -- Our pop-savvy eco-writer Madison Underwood wants to share, in his own inimitable fashion, the happy news that Green Space now has a fan page at Bookface, or Facebook. Viewers of the s

Attorney Patrick Cooper announced his candidacy for mayor of Birmingham Thursday at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Cooper, who came in second place to former mayor Larry Langford in the 2007 m

In her first mayoral report on Tuesday, Acting Mayor Carole Smitherman told the Birmingham City Council that the current city budget, prepared and passed under former mayor Larry Langford, underfunds

[caption id="attachment_9111" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Acting Birmingham Mayor Carole Smitherman"][/caption] Video will be available in moments. Birmingham City Council President