Today, the Alabama Environmental Council (AEC)—Alabama’s oldest conservation nonprofit—announced that it would become the new fiscal sponsor of the Southern Environmental Center (SEC), an environmental education and conservation program formerly located at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC).
Read on to learn about this exciting partnership and what’s next for both organizations.
A new home for the Southern Environmental Center
Founded in the late 1980s as the “Birmingham Southern Conservancy,” the Southern Environmental Center (SEC) is an environmental education and conservation nonprofit dedicated to educating people of all ages how they can protect—and improve—the environment.
The SEC’s former home at Birmingham-Southern College was the largest educational facility of its kind in the state, with four unique campus facilities including a three-story Interactive Museum and the Hugh Kaul Ecoscape—a four-acre living lab featuring lush pollinator and sensory gardens that rely on natural irrigation…