Birmingham, Alabama Leads the Way for Green Lobbying: Introduces the Alabama Green Initiative, a First-Ever Regional Green Project.Local Alabama Organizations Will Assist Area Lobbying for Green-Only Monies BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Birmingham, Alabama-area elected officials announced this week the formation of the Alabama Green Initiative (AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) A machine intelligence that resembles that of a human being. Considered impossible by many, most artificial intelligence (AI) research, projects and products deal with specific applications such as industrial robots, playing chess, ), a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. created to assist the municipalities of the metro Birmingham area in applying for and receiving green-only and stimulus grant monies from President Barack Obama's upcoming stimulus package. This marks the first of such partnership in the State of Alabama and in the entire United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "The formation of this group will partner interested areas together, and this will hopefully produce results for all vested parties," says Roald Hazelhoff, Director of the Southern Environmental Center The Southern Environmental Center is an environmental educational facility located on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Each year, hundreds of school children tour the facility's Interactive Museum and EcoScape. at Birmingham-Southern College Birmingham-Southern College, at Birmingham, Ala.; United Methodist; coeducational; formed 1918 by the merger of Southern Univ. (chartered 1856; opened 1859 at Greensboro, Ala.) and Birmingham College (opened 1898). in Birmingham. "This initiative is unique in that instead of each individual municipality, environmental group and green business looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. monies themselves, they will instead do so together, hopefully increasing the amount of the stimulus package organizations like ours can benefit from here in Jefferson County Jefferson County is the name of 25 counties and one parish in the United States. The following are named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States:
Officers of the AGI are Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, Chairman/President; Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos, Vice-chairman/Vice-president; Bessemer Mayor Ed May, Secretary, and Fultondale Mayor Jim Lowery low·er·y also lour·y adj. Overcast; threatening. , Treasurer. Other Board members include Jefferson County Commissioner, William Bell, Homewood Council member, David Hooks and Hoover City Council President, Gary Ivey. This public-private partnership is a first for the state of Alabama and nation and will be responsible for assisting Birmingham, Hoover, Jefferson County and surrounding municipalities with grant requests through the Alabama Green Initiative and lobbying for their passage in Washington D.C. and Montgomery. Initiative guidelines aim to reduce the region's carbon footprint via the establishment of a legal entity that will seek to identify and secure available federal dollars for green-only initiatives and stimulus grants that are designed to benefit the entire region. AGI organizers site low emission vehicles, public works' projects and large-scale community structures utilizing green-building standards as examples of what programs will be targeted. For more information on the Alabama Green Initiative, please contact Lydia Wilbanks at 205.251.2225. To speak with the offices of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, please contact Deborah Vance-Bowie at (205) 254-2735. |
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