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The Songo mine hoist house at Red Mountain Park. Photo taken 2009.

Revisiting Red Mountain Park: A huge park opens, but there’s more in store

Thanks to work by Red Mountain Park staff and loads of volunteer work by Friends of Red Mountain Park and others, one slice of Red Mountain Park is now open to visitors. But there’s loads more in store.

Health & Fitness

UAB medicine professor Dr. Mona N. Fouad (left) and American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation President Mary Jo Welker (right) hope the Cities for Life program will help diabetes patients manage their care.

Birmingham lands sweet diabetes management program

The City of Birmingham has been chosen to host a new diabetes management pilot program called Cities for Life. The program hopes to connect patients with convenient, easily accessible and easily sustainable resources to mitigate the effects of diabetes.

Neighborhoods

Participants in an urban farming workshop in Birmingham can learn about composting and other eco-friendly practices. Photo by Kessner Photography.

SW Bham. Farm to host workshops Saturday

The Southwest Birmingham Community Farm will host a free, four-part urban farming workshop on April 21.

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For two decades, Alabama, Georgia and Florida have fought hard over water supplies. Photo by che, adjustments by Li-sung.

Guest Blogger: Adam Snyder Eco-Update

Alabama and Florida have battled Georgia for years about water , but can Alabama create a water management plan?

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Among the many Earth Day celebrations in the Birmingham area will be Earth Days at the Gardens -- the Birmingham Botanical Gardens -- on May 5.

Earth Day then and now and a 2012 preview

Earth Day Network says people are getting angry at governments for failing to fully protect the environment.

Health & Fitness

Women reach up at fitness boot-camps – like this one at Every Girl Fitness – getting in better shape and discovering a new, supportive community.

Women work out, find community, at fitness camps

12 women gather for a boot-camp, and not just to get in shape, but to find community.

General

A Southern Poverty Law Center fellow is in Birmingham April 16 to discuss hate groups. A  Klansmen watches a cross burn along with his kids on a farm in Ohio in 1987. Photo by Paul M. Walsh.

Mark Potok of SPLC to lecture on hate groups

Mark Potok, a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center, will be at Samford University tonight to lecture about hate groups.

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Tragic City Rollers in action this weekend

It’s a roller-derby doubleheader at Zamora Shrine Temple in Irondale Sat., April 14. Birmingham’s Tragic City Rollers will battle the Marietta (Ga.) Derby Darlins at 4:45 p.m. The Rollers then take on the Mississippi Roller Girls from Biloxi at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door or $10 online. Learn more at www.tragiccityrollers.com.

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You got to love love picknicking, and you can do it for the plant while helping to set a record this Earth Day, April 22, at Railroad Park. Photo by Dylan Lake.

Make picnic history Earth Day at Railroad Park

The Nature Conservancy will mark Earth Day on April 22 with a big, and possibly record-setting, picnic.

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Do a couple of Republican lawmakers see black helicopters in their sleep? Adam Snyder wonders. U.S. Navy photo.

Guest blogger: eco-lobbyist Adam Snyder’s update

Alabama conservative legislators seem black-helicopter paranoid about the U.N.’s Agenda 21, says Snyder says.