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AU Teams with Stakeholder Groups to Share Information about Alabama’s Water Management Plan
On Friday, May 10th, more than 100 participants from across Alabama crowded into a packed auditorium at Auburn University’s Comer Hall to attend a symposium on the formation of a comprehensive water management plan for Alabama. Mitch Reid, program director for the Alabama Rivers Alliance, began the day by discussing the environmental needs for water management policy. “We [...]
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CASE Achieves Goal of $1 Million in New Public Funds for Energy-Independence, Savings
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL: The Coalition of Alabama Students for the Environment (CASE) has successfully met its goal of allocating $1 million dollars in public funds for energy-independence and savings projects on four Alabama university campuses. In January, CASE student chapters at four campuses (University of Alabama, UAB, UAH, and Auburn University) each initiated projects [...]
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Black Warrior Named to America’s Most Endangered Rivers 2013
Washington, D.C.- American Rivers named Alabama’s Black Warrior River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2013 today, shining a national spotlight on a proposed coal mine that would threaten clean drinking water as well as river health, wildlife, and private property. “The America’s Most Endangered Rivers report is a call to action to save rivers that are [...]
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Black Warrior Riverkeeper Receives Greek Week Grant from Alabama Panhellenic Assoc.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. – The Alabama Panhellenic Association has invited Black Warrior Riverkeeper to receive a generous Greek Week grant at the Greek Week Leadership and Service Banquet in the Ferguson Center Ballroom at The University of Alabama (UA) on April 16 at 6 p.m. The UA Panhellenic Association’s donation will support the nonprofit clean water [...]
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Alabama Power Reports Drop in 2012 Air Emissions
Alabama Power in 2012 continued its long-term trend of reducing key air emissions at its power plants. Emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) were down 30 percent in 2012. Emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) were down 28 percent last year. Since 1996, NOx and SO2 emissions at Alabama Power plants are down by 78 percent [...]
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AL House to Vote on Hazardous Waste Bill
This article is original content from Alabama Conservationist, and is reprinted with permission. While the big news of the legislative week was the power play by Republicans over the school flexibility bill, conservation-related bills made barely a whisper last week. That will change this week. HB181, a bi-partisan effort to reduce the fees hazardous waste haulers [...]
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Selling Green Homes: Sustainability Training for Accredited Real Estate Professionals
The Earth Advantage Institute will hold a S.T.A.R (Sustainability Training for Accredited Real Estate Professional) course March 11-15 in Birmingham (see below for location details). This one-time certification course, with no annual renewal fees, is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of different green building techniques, third-party certification programs, techniques for communicating features of a green home, [...]
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AU Students Launch Green Investment Campaign to Help Create Greener Campus Initiatives
As students returned from winter break to their classes at Auburn University, the AU Environmental Awareness Organization pushed forward with a campaign that, if successful, will generate a projected $350,000 in public funds annually for campus green infrastructure projects. The Green Investment campaign will include the creation of a new campus funding program. With the [...]
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Youth Coalition Sponsors Statewide Student Environmental Summit
Student environmental leaders from campuses and communities statewide united this past weekend to collaborate on the future of student involvement on environmental stewardship and protection issues in Alabama. The day-long summit, hosted at UAB’s Hill University Center, was sponsored by the Coalition of Alabama Students for the Environment (CASE) to bring student groups together around [...]
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Scale Back Alabama 2013
Now in its seventh year, Scale Back Alabama is a statewide weight-loss contest that begins in January each year. The purpose of the 10-week contest is to help our state fight its challenge with obesity by encouraging Alabamians to lose weight, to exercise and to have fun while doing it. Last year’s campaign drew nearly 30,000 [...]
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