BEN - April 6, 2012 #391

 Picks of the Week:

Friends of Hurricane Creek Annual Clean-up  - April 7th

http://www.hurricane-creek.org/

EEAA's Project Earth Day - April 15th Deadline

http://eeinalabama.org/resource/about.aspx?s=100606.0.0.37934&mode=p

Alabama Environmental Council Green Tie Affair Tickets on Sale

http://www.aeconline.org/

News Across Alabama

City of Montgomery Holds "Earth Hour"

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20120330/NEWS01/303300019/Montgomery-hold-state-s-first-Earth-Hour?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFrontpage%7Cs

State of Alabama Bans  Harvesting Freshwater Turtles

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/04/alabama_slams_door_on_commerci_1.html

NRCS Working Lands For Wildlife

http://www.al.nrcs.usda.gov/news/nr/3-23-12wlwl_gopher_tor.html

Feds Approve Alabama's Environmental Evaluation of First Leg of Birmingham's Northern Beltline

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/03/feds_approve_alabamas_environm.html

Alabama's Best Community Environmental Education Project

http://landtrustnal.org/tuesdays-on-the-trail-honored/

City of Florence Shuts Down Landfill

http://www.timesdaily.com/stories/Council-shuts-down-landfill,189128

Daily Home: Logan Martin Cleanup

http://www.dailyhome.com/view/full_story/18071429/article-Less-trash-as-lake-cleanup-efforts-pay-off?instance=home_news

Birmingham News: Forever Wild Receives Grant to Maintain Trails

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/04/forever_wild_gets_grant_for_ma.html

Huntsville Times: Redstone Energy Group to Showcase Solar Projects

http://blog.al.com/huntsville-times-business/2012/04/huntsville-based_redstone_ener.html

Earth Justice Intervenes to Protect Public Health Concerning Secondary Lead Smelters

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/32392-smelters-expose-communities-to-toxic-levels-of-lead.html 

Crimson & White : University of Alabama Recycles 44,000 pounds a week

http://cw.ua.edu/2012/04/05/campus-gets-cash-for-trash/

Hydrogen -powered bus coming to Birmingham

http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/air-liquide-to-supply-fuel-for-hydrogen-powered-bus-in-birmingham-alabama/852923/

Op-eds, Links, Audio and Videos

Jefferson State Community College Teams Up with TIOS (video)

http://www.jeffstateonline.com/News/12/JeffStateTIOSPartnership.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnej2qIjCE&feature=youtu.be 

Tennessee Riverkeeper PSA with musician John Legend

http://www.koronisfest.org/entry/video/1 

AWF  Alabama Flora and Fauna Arts Festival - April 21

http://www.alabamawildlife.org/events/?eventID=105&date=05/21/2012

Black & White Shepherd Bend Cover Story

http://www.bwcitypaper.com/Articles-Features-i-2012-03-22-246338.113121-A-River-Ruined-Through-It.html

WAFF 48 Huntsville: Summer Energy Savings Special (video

http://www.waff.com/story/17347524/summer-energy-savings-a-waff-48-news-special-report

El Paso Wildflower Preserve in Homewood (slideshow)

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/04/el_paso_wildflower_preserve_of.html

PACE Video: Unplugged

http://unpluggedmovie.com/

Huntsville Times Op-ed: Commissioner Gunter Guy Promotes Forever Wild

http://blog.al.com/times-views/2012/03/forever_wild_public_lands_from.html

Events, Grants & Job Openings

Job Openings & Events (April 6th Update)

http://bamanews2.blogspot.com/2012/04/ben-job-openings-and-events-april-6.html