UAB
The Director of UAB Sustainability
Who is Bambi Ingram?
The Alabama state bird
What is the yellowhammer?
A federal law passed in 1970 to control the levels of air pollutants in the US
What is the Clean Air Act?
the largest contributor to the North Birmingham superfund site?
what is ABC coke
The world's longest river
What is the Nile?
The name of the environmental student organization founded by the current Mr. UAB
What is Sustain at UAB?
A Birmingham nonprofit that specializes in clean air and environmental justice
What is the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP)?
A common name for the combined effects of smoke and fog
What is smog?
A community in alabama that cannot eat the vegetables that they grow
what is North Birmingham
A heavy metal commonly leached into tap water from old pipes
What is lead?
The Honors Hall, University Hall, McMahon Hall all share this common international certification
What is LEED?
The primary entity in the state that oversees environmental issues (i.e., sewage and air quality)
What is the Alabama Department of Environmental Management?
A fibrous mineral commonly used as insulation in buildings and a known carcinogen
What is asbestos?
The UN directly criticized this region in alabama for their lack of hygiene due to soil contamination caused by septic tank systems
what is the Black Belt
The river that supplies most of Birmingham's fresh water
What is the Cahaba River?
The days of the week the UAB Recycling Center is open
What are Monday and Thursday?
A nonprofit that is a network of 60+ organizations dedicated to protecting state water resources
What is the Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA)?
A landmark ambient air pollution case in 1952 Europe
What is the Great Smog of London?
zoning practice made unlawful under the 1968 fair housing act
what is red lining?
The rainiest city in the United States
What is Mobile?
According to the Strategic Plan, the intended percentage of UAB energy that will be sourced from renewable sources by 2025
What is 20 (%)?
They were the first environmental advocacy organization in the state, founded before the creation of the EPA
Who is the Alabama Environmental Council (AEC)?
An EPA categorical name for the following air pollutants: particulate matter, SO2, NO2, lead, ground-level O3, CO
What are the criteria air pollutants?
climate change directly increases infections in this taxonomic group
what is helminthes?
With an area of 174,000 mi2, it is the largest aquifer in the United States
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?