Entries Tagged as 'Southern Environmental Center'

Turkey Creek gets an ecoscape

October 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · Parks

acnatta/Flickr As promised in our post last week, the first of three ecoscapes developed by the Southern Environmental Center made its public debut on Saturday morning at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. Features include the installation of natural “stairs” that lead down to the water from the ecoscape and access to an Eagle Scout Trail that [...]

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EcoFest is this week

October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Take a moment

We’ve noticed that a lot of folks are looking for information about this year’s EcoFest, scheduled for Thursday evening at WorkPlay. We’ve got some more information about this year’s event over on destinations, our new online calendar (be gentle, it’s still in beta). We’d also like to direct you to their online auction, already open [...]

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A Summer Splash for a Birmingham institution

May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · environmental, Fundraiser, Online

Southern Environmental Center logo

The Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham Southern College is starting to celebrate its 10th anniversary this month with its first ever online auction. Summer Splash currently has 19 items available for visitors to bid on with all proceeds going to support the organizations educational efforts. We’re pretty sure they’d appreciate you visiting (and bidding) early [...]

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Seven Springs Ecoscape dedicated

April 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · 35211, environmental, Random Shots

Seven Springs walk - Andre Natta/Flickr

Arnold Rutkis accompanies Birmingham City Councilors Miriam Witherspoon and Valerie Abbott through the Seven Springs Ecoscape shortly after the end of its ribbon cutting ceremony. AndrĂ© Natta/Flickr We figured we’d save this story for today as a way to warm up. The Seven Springs Ecoscape was officially dedicated yesterday during a mid-afternoon ceremony that included [...]

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