Experts seem to have some new insights into the Native American origins of the Sweetwater Creek petroglyph which is said to represent on a granite slab the image of a supernatural being. This artifact is now located at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, Georgia – west of Atlanta off of I-20. Sweetwater Creek [...]

Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen’s video, Wreckage to Recovery, shows the damage to Hurricane Creek resulting from the massive April 27, 2011 tornado. Aerial footage (Southwings) shows how the tornado destroyed the oldest and longest railroad bridge in the Southeast, constructed between 1909 and 1913. Some fragments of the bridge were found miles away, testimony to [...]

Yesterday, the Public Patent Foundation on behalf of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association filed suit against Monsanto Company regarding its patents on genetically modified seed. The suit — Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al. v. Monsanto — was filed in federal district court in Monsanto and assigned to Judge [...]

The proposed and partially permitted Shepherd Bend Mine is close to a major Birmingham drinking water intake and would discharge heavy metals and wastewater in violation of federal and state law. Read on… Shepherd Bend Mine Opposition Continues: Updated 2/10/2011 ~ Maps, Pictures, Articles and Documents Below Black Warrior Riverkeeper opposes the Shepherd Bend Mine, [...]

January 24 update: The trial is coming to a close. Since neither of the owners were present when cheese was taken under state orders for testing, it seems it would be impossible to say whether the cheese tested was even from Morningland dairy at all. For more information on the trial, click here. A February [...]

The McWane Science Center is hosting a benefit for the Black Warrior Riverkeeper on Tuesday, January 18. It’s called “Sippin’ with the Fishes” because you’ll be treated to an open bar and hors d’oeuvres in the Aquarium and a viewing of the Wild Ocean IMAX® Movie after Nelson Brooke’s update on Riverkeeper’s efforts to protect [...]

One of the best ways to describe the work of SAWG – the Southern Sustainable Agricultural Working Group – is with the word “practical.” We hear plenty of talk about farming and sustainability and the environment and local conditions, but SAWG is composed not only of advocates and leaders in the sustainability movement, but more [...]

Forty years ago in Birmingham, air pollution from the steel industry and other sources regularly caused a thick toxic yellow haze over downtown and surrounding areas. It was literally making people sick. A group of young activists, inspired by federal Clean Air legislation and the first Earth Day, formed a group they called Greater Birmingham [...]

Black & White has a great discussion of the new 1200-acre Red Mountain Park that is unfolding on land purchased from U.S. Steel West of I-65. The area, which is planned to include trails and visitor centers, is likely to put Birmingham at the top of the listings for public open space per resident, according [...]

For the first time ever, a federal court has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered sugar beet seedlings. The ruling came in response to a suit filed by Earth Justice and the Center for Food Safety representing the claims of a farmers, environmental organizations and consumers. United [...]

The Gulf Restoration Network has documented the work of 95 community leaders, including representatives of national and international environmental, social justice and fishermen’s groups, who met at Weeks Bay, Alabama October 4-6, 2010 to draft a set of principles to guide the recovery process. To quote from the document: “The oil is still here, and [...]

The raw milk industry, as well as local farming altogether, is under grave threat from federal legislation supposedly designed to protect consumers in the name of food safety, but actually resulting in autocratic policies, damaging legislation and police break-ins that have been crushing to private farmers, farm businesses, local dairies and local distributors, both financially [...]