Southern Environmental Center

Southern Environmental Center The Southern Environmental Center is the largest educational facility of its kind in Alabama, and is

The Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College is both a destination and a source for urban sustainability activity throughout the region. The Center’s Interactive Museum on campus hosts 20,000 visitors every year, sponsors statewide conferences, and provides convening space for area environmental groups and urban associations. The SEC’s Interactive Museum and Conference Ce

nter is our base of operations for broad programming in sustainability education, urban eco-planning, research, and green space development. The Southern Environmental Center’s Interactive Museum is the only museum of its kind in the nation: an interactive sustainability museum built from recycled materials and constructed inside a repurposed college swimming pool. The Southern Environmental Center’s Interactive Museum is a 52,000 square foot exhibition and meeting space housed inside the old natatorium on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College.

These kids turned some heads at Avondale Park today. We studied tree diversity, watched a green heron catch a fish, and ...
04/22/2026

These kids turned some heads at Avondale Park today. We studied tree diversity, watched a green heron catch a fish, and reconnected kids with nature.

04/22/2026

Dupuy Alternative School students sporting recycled CD earrings as part of Earth Week! 🌎

02/27/2026
02/16/2026

Speed Dating for Nature!
40 people 🧍🧍‍♀️
30 trees 🌳
2 hours ⏱️
= Mission accomplished ✅

Next up is our Green Drinks Event 🍻 on February 26th at Rojo from 5:30-7pm!! Join us to learn about our upcoming Alabama Resilience Center! 🌎

This doesn’t bug me one bit
02/14/2026

This doesn’t bug me one bit

02/04/2026

Join us for our next Green Drinks happy hour 🍻 with our education advisor, Roald Hazelhoff at our EAT Sustainability restaurant partner Rojo (2921 Highland Ave. S., Birmingham, AL 35205) on Thursday, February 26th from 5:30-7 pm! Talk will begin promptly at 6 pm. This event will be held in their side room.

Come learn all about the new Alabama Resilience Center (ARC) with renovations beginning in Summer 2026! ☀️

Free & open to the public! $10 suggested donation to support our mission. RSVP not required but encouraged for planning purposes.

Sign up with the EventBrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1981792145656?aff=oddtdtcreator

Putting Unity back into Community!
01/20/2026

Putting Unity back into Community!

01/11/2026

This is a beautiful display for the proposed Alabama Resilience Center!



11/18/2025

This Thursday! Join us for our next Green Drinks happy hour with our partners Glass Half Full at our EAT Sustainability partner Rojo Birmingham in their side room (2921 Highland Ave. S., Birmingham, AL 35205) on Thursday, November 20, 5:30-7 p.m. Talk will begin promptly at 6 p.m.! 🍻

Come learn about glass recycling! Glass Half Full is a glass recycling company based in New Orleans with a new warehouse in Birmingham that crushes glass bottles into sustainable sand. Learn about the history and growth of GHF as well as their expansion into Birmingham.

Free & open to the public! $15 suggested donation to support our mission. RSVP & donate at the link in comments (RSVP not required but encouraged for planning purposes).

Address

900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, AL
35254

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Website

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-darter-festival-tickets-1982889023447?aff=oddtdtcreato

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