http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-66-1-green-page.html The upside is you won´t need much space for appliances. Environmentalist guru Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, notes that a 60 percent reduction in fossil fuel usage would result in a dramatic reduction of carbon emission per person.]]> Bureau of Land Management have said they are delaying the June 14 sale of gas drilling leases on almost 43,000 acres of public lands in the Talladega National Forest, a proposal which has sparked widespread and vigorous opposition from local citizens and some elected officials.]]> It is getting to be time to head for the hills to try to get cooler. Don't doubt it--the day is coming. But to cool your heels in green vales, cross the river and rest in the shade of the tree, you barely have to cross the line. The North Georgia mountains offer many pleasant opportunities.]]> In December, Japan�€™s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared that �€œa cold shutdown�€� had been achieved and that the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was now over. �€œThe reactors are stable, which should resolve one big cause of concern for us all,�€� Noda told the Japanese people in a televised address.]]> Jenn Patterson, Program Director for Black Warrior Riverkeeper won the James Lowery Service Award on March 17, 2012.� �The Alabama Rivers Alliance selects one James Lowery Service Award winn]]> For anyone who has ever eaten a chicken McNugget and remains oblivious as to what it looks like before the McWeird-piece-of-chicken takes shape and finds its way into your mouth, you should know one thing: chickens don't have McNuggets.]]> As part of a series that I am working on I thought it would be cool to take the time to sort of get to know some of the state's conservation groups. I have had the good fortune to get to work with a good many of them in the past year, but there was one that I had not: The Black Warrior River-keeper's.]]> North Georgia has a thriving little wine industry, in fact. Most wineries are around the old gold-mining mountain town of Dahlonega. There's one near the faux Alpine village of Helen-or Hel[o]n Earth as I call it. There is one next door in Towns County, and one working winery still in Rabun County.]]> Forever Wild is a state program that preserves land for recreation, hunting, hiking and other public use. To pay for the land it uses 10 percent of the revenue from the Alabama Trust Fund, the annual earnings from royalties from offshore drilling for oil and natural gas.]]>