Podcast #31: Roald Hazelhoff’s Environmental Citizenship

Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.

By Mo Lotman | May 2, 2019 | Community, Culture, Environment, Family, Podcasts | Alabama, Art, Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, Children, EcoScape, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Garbage, Garden, Mosaic, Museums, Native Plants, Partnerships, Pollution, Preservation, Recycling, Reuse, Sculpture, Southern Environmental Center, Stewardship, Stone, Students, Waste, Water

Read more  

The False Promise of Hydroelectric Dams

In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.

By David A. J. Reynolds | April 3, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Health | Arundhati Roy, Balbina Dam, Banqiao Dam, Bargi Dam, Big Bend Dam, Bureau of Reclamation, China, Collapse, Cost Overruns, Dams, Deltas, Destruction, Diminishing Returns, Displacement, Earthquakes, Economic Return, Estuaries, Failure Cascade, Flood Control Act, Floods, Fort Randall Dam, Garrison Dam, Geology, Ghana, Hydroelectric Power, Hydrology, India, Industry, Instability, International Rivers, Iroquois, Jabalpur, Kinzua Dam, Mark Twain, Methane, Mississippi River, Monteynard Dam, Native Americans, Oahe Dam, Oroville Dam, Pakistan, Power Generation, Reservoirs, Rivers, Sediment, Seneca, Settlements, Soviet Union, Stalin, The World Bank, Three Gorges Dam, Ukai Dam, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vajont Dam, Volga, Water

Read more  

Voyage of the Dammed

Hydroelectric power is often thought of as “green” energy, but dams have devastated river ecology and the creatures it supports—including us.

By David A. J. Reynolds | February 13, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Health | Bonneville Dam, Canals, Civilization, Colorado River, Columbia River, Dams, Danube River, Deltas, Dneprostroi Dam, Dnieper River, Drinking Water, Ecology, Energy, Erosion, Estuaries, Extinction, Fish, Fish Ladders, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Green Energy, Groundwater, Hatcheries, Heiddeger, Hoover Dam, Hydroelectric Power, Ian Nairn, Industry, International Rivers, Iron Gate Dam, Mills, Pollution, Reservoirs, Riverbank, Riverbed, Rivers, Salmon, Sediment, Snake River, Soviet Union, Sturgeon, Trees, Tributaries, Water, Water Table, Watershed

Read more  

Plastic’s Legacy of Pollution

Our obsession with disposability and sterility has ironically led to an explosion of plastic, which is non-biodegradable and full of contaminants.

By Samantha Maxwell | May 31, 2017 | Environment, Health | Autism, BPA, CDC, Chemicals, Cognition, Contaminants, Convenience, Endocrine System, Environment, Estrogen, Fertility, Fisheries, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Henderson Island, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Malnutrition, Nature, Pacific Ocean, Phthalates, Plastic, Plastic Bags, Pollution, Soil, Water, Water Bottles

Read more