The Southern Environmental Center (SEC) is the largest educational facility of its kind in Alabama, dedicated to showing individuals how they can protect and improve their local environments. In addition to its award-winning Interactive Museum and the Hugh Kaul EcoScape garden on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College, the SEC is also active in the community. It has initiated a number of model partnerships targeting water quality, smog, and sprawl; its EcoScape program is nationally recognized as a model for urban revitalization
Things to do at the SEC include:
Visit The Interactive Museum (TIM), a two-story environmental showcase that challenges visitors to slide down a giant sewage pipe, lift a week's worth of garbage, or identify the sources of air pollution on a moving city scape model.
Tour the nearby EcoScape, a 4-acre outdoor classroom with paths winding through a miniature Mobile Basin wetland, past beneficial bug sculptures and fragrance gardens, and along the Appalachian Trail to a two-story treehouse. Learn about medicinal plants, edible landscapes, and sustainable landscape practices.
Complete your visit by making EcoArt. Transform discarded telephone wires, bottle caps, old CDs and more into home jewelry.
Tour Info
Track A (10:00-12:00): Interactive Museum/EcoArt session/EcoScape Garden tour - 2 hours total. Cost is $5 per person, with no charge for teachers
Track B (1:00-2:00): Geodome drone video aerials of Alabama natural wonders - 1 hour or less, depending on group size/age. Cost is $5 per person
Track A & B: $8 per person
If you need to pay in person, please let us know and we can make arrangments. Payment must be received before you spot is comfirmed.
The minimum group size is 10 people