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    NBC 15: Africatown Rain Garden Turned Into Living Laboratory for Environmental Education

    "This project is a part of the STEMMing the Tide, empowering youth to meet coastal environments challenges initiative."

    Learn more about the Africatown Rain Garden dedication and watch the NBC 15 video, here.

     

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    Bham Now features Birmingham-Southern College Southern Environmental Center

    The Birmingham Southern College Southern Environmental Center recently received a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham support its new Birmingham Urban Watershed STEMM Initiative (BUWSI). 

    The BUWSI is modeled after BSC's successful STEMMing the Tide initiative.

    "STEMMing the Tide utilizes an interdisciplinary and Community of Practice (CoP) approach to create localized STEMM programing with an emphasis on environmental justice and climate change.  This supplemental program can be easily adapted for use in the classroom, after-school program or summer camp program."

    To read the full article on Bham Now, click here.

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    10th Anniversary Darter Fest - 2023

    May 7, 2023  Darter Festival
    12-5 p.m. Sunday | Avondale Brewing Company 

    We'll be returning to Avondale Brewing Co. to support and celebrate Turkey Creek Nature Preserve with live music, food and drinks, kids' activities, and more. It's the 10th year of this festival, which benefits the Southern Environmental Center's programs at Turkey Creek.

    Advance general admission tickets are $10, and advance VIP tickets – which include food and drinks from Luna and prime indoor seating – are $50. Tickets will be $20 for general admission and $60 for VIP at the door.

    We're excited to welcome Will Stewart's All Star Band, Shaheed and DJ Supreme, and EPIC Headstart Darter Dancers to the stage. Eugene's Hot Chicken and Tuff Love Provisions will also be serving food throughout the festival, and Good People's Darter IPA will be available!

    Thank you to Nucor Birmingham, our stage sponsor, and everyone who makes this event possible.

    Buy tickets here.
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    Urban Farming Workshops Featured on Bham Now

    Interested in starting a garden in your backyard or neighborhood? Check out our urban farming virtual workshops. Topics include pollinator plants, edible landscapes, and making gardens accessible for people with disabilities. There is still time to register, so click here to learn more!

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    Birmingham-Southern celebrates Alabama's biodiversity with new mural

    The cement steps wrapping around the outside of the Robert R. Meyer Planetarium on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College used to be merely a pathway students took to get inside the building and learn about the stars.

    Now, the steps are being transformed into a lesson themselves, a 21-panel mural depicting the richness of Alabama's biodiversity. 

    Read more here

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    Hands On Learning with the Southern Environmental Center

    If you follow the echo of giggles, you will find yourself looking at the rather large toilet in the former indoor pool building on the campus of Birmingham Southern College (BSC). It can flush an entire kid, sending him down a winding tunnel into the bottom of the emptied-out swimming pool. This toilet slide generates “gallons of giggles,” but it also illustrates for children wasteful water consumption.

    The massive commode is part of the Interactive Museum inside the Southern Environmental Center (SEC), and it, along with the other displays of trash heaps and old fashioned bicycles in the museum, is designed to teach people of all ages how they can help protect and improve their local environments. At 5,600-square-feet, it’s the largest education facility of its kind in Alabama.

    Read more at I am Protective.

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    Southern Environmental Center Dedicates GeoDome

    For more than 20 years the Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College has taught young people from the region’s urban communities about the nature around them and how they can help to preserve the beauty and natural resources of Alabama.

    Now students visiting the center, many of whom have never traveled outside the city, will be able to take a high-definition, virtual tour of natural wonders across Alabama, right inside the new “Geodome” on the college campus.

    Read more at Alabama Newscenter.

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    Southern Environmental Center announces Geodome project

    BSC's Southern Environmental Center is transforming the former Meyer Planetarium to focus on Alabama's amazing biodiversity.

    “Through these films we are going to visually take people to natural wonders like Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and Little River Canyon. Visitors will join kayakers racing down the Mulberry Fork, climbers scaling Sand Mountain, and get a bird’s eye view of Alabama songbirds,” said SEC Director Roald Hazelhoff.

    Click here to find out more.

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    Keep BSC Clean with new outdoor recycling bins!

    We’re excited to announce that 30 outdoor recycling containers have been placed around central campus and the residence hall quad thanks to the generosity of the Student Government Association. Recycling and better waste management have been at the forefront of student concern for several years. The college is actively working to provide easy and convenient ways for the campus community to keep BSC clean and reduce our overall footprint.  More information...

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    BSC Sustainability Tour


    To learn more about the progress we are making towards sustainability on campus, click here.