FEATURED RESOURCES
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Coal ash is a toxic byproduct of coal-burning power plants. Across Alabama, there are more than 117 million tons of toxic coal ash in unlined pits next to our waterways at nine different sites with more than 50 groundwater violations. Alabama Power, TVA and PowerSouth own these unlined pits, and they are polluting our rivers and reservoirs. We can do better.
Birmingham currently lacks a formal framework to address issues concerning the equity and environmental justice. Most notably, residents in the neighborhoods of the 35th Avenue Superfund Site — namely: Collegeville, Harriman Park, and Fairmont — are forced to confront a wide array of environmental issues that significantly affect their health and quality of life.
GUIDE TO BIRMINGHAM
Sustainable, Green places around Birmingham
Guide to Birmingham
Recycling & Volunteering Opportunities
Guide to Birmingham
Community Organizations
CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY
Alabama's first ever community-scale composting company (jnorthrop22@gmail.com)
Medical Students for a Sustainable Future is a network of medical students who recognize climate change as an urgent threat to health and social justice. Motivated to protect our future patients and the communities we love, we catalyze action to prevent and address the health harms of climate change.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We acknowledge that the land that we use and take advantage of every day is not our own and is owed to those Indigenous communities that resided before us. This is an important acknowledgment because of the devastating effects the violence and displacement that colonialism had on indigenous populations and the environment they habituated.
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For more information on the land we occupy, look at the link below.