Tag: Alabama
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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them
A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.
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100-1000 And Restore Coastal Alabama Partnership's Inaugural Massive Oyster Reef Restoration
Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots
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Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought - Let The Water Wars Begin
Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought
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Mississippi Governor Barbour Opposes Widespread Beach Berm Building In Louisiana
"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the
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BP Goes For Extra Hurricane Point: 22 Mile Long Plume Moving Toward Alabama
British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected
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Southern US Apple Growers Lose 2010 Crop Due to High Temperatures
I'm not saying you can directly attribute this one to climate change, but coming on the heals of NOAA saying the past April was the warmest on record, it's likely at least a sign of things to come: The Alabama Cooperative
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Mobile Bay Alabama's First Line Of Oil Defense Is Bigger Boom On 2,000 Pound Anchors
A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that
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BP's Blowout Could Be 'The Three Mile Island of Offshore Drilling'
I'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in
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Is The BP Spill Big Enough To Resuscitate The Environmental Movement?
Floating residues from the ongoing BP oil 'blowout' in the Gulf are expansive enough to be easily visible from space. Satellite photos of oil on salt water
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The Anatomy of an Oil Spill Cleanup: What Works and What Doesn't
Preston Kott of U.S. Environmental Services moves oil absorbent boom into a warehouse at a pollution control staging area in Venice, La., April 27, 2010. Staging areas are being set up along the Gulf coast as the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to
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Nature Conservancy Land Purchase Could Save Alabama's Red Hills Salamander
A little salamander that is found in only a
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US Federal Judge Awards Compensation For Chinese Drywall-Caused, Wiring, HVAC, Appliance Damages
A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of
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What the Heck? Second Coal Ash Spill, this Time in Alabama
Image: Google Maps. We think this is the Widows Creek power plant where the spill happened, but if anyone from Alabama could confirm, please do so in the comments. Coal Waste Spill at At Alabama Coal Plant It wasn't so long ago that we were writing
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California Leads the Energy Efficiency Race: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Releases 2008 Scorecard
So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to
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Slow Cook Your Way Out Of A Drought-Stricken Electricity Bill
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is proposing a rate increase due to extreme drought having reduced their ability to ramp up hydroelectric generators in time for customers to turn on the bright kitchen lights and cook dinner - after 4:00PM. Only 6
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US Department Of Interior Secretary Calls Atlanta Drought "No Longer A Theory"
US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The language used to report this progress indicates a small
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Southeast & Mid-Atlantic US Drought Update
With TeeVee news cameras focused exclusively on the California and Mexico wildfires, the thirsty and parched on the other coast are not going to be forgotten by us. The East Coast and Southeast US drought problems and their potential solutions are
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Industries And Power Plants Downstream From Atlanta Also Need Water: Not Just For Endangered Species After All
When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop releasing water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier, perhaps he did
