Contact St. Louis Earth Day

St. Louis Earth Day
P.O. Box 19863
St. Louis, Mo 63144
(voice) 314-961-5838
(fax) 314-961-5836

About ST. Louis Earth Day

Terri F. Reilly
Executive Director:


Cassidy Dellorto-Blackwell
Project Manager:


Dana Turkovic
Graphic Artist:

Bradford Smith
Web Production:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Patrick Osborne,
Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center

Secretary: David A. Wilson,
East West Gateway Council of Governments

Vice-President, Finance: Lori Strawbridge
Focus On Business

Member: Tracy Boaz,
Missouri Department of Conservation

Member:Laura Cohen
Project Director
Confluence Greenway

Member: Jordan Heiman

Member: Terri F. Reilly,
St. Louis Earth Day

Member: Fred Ricks,
Harris, Dowell, Fisher & Harris

St. Louis Earth Day Advisory Board Chairmen
Dr. Peter Raven; Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Dr. Robert Archibald; President, Missouri Historical Society

MISSION
St. Louis Earth Day nurtures environmental responsibility
by bringing people together for celebration,
education, and stewardship through Earth Day.

St. Louis Earth Day’s Freedom of Expression Policy

St. Louis Earth Day, 501c3 Missouri Corporation, promotes good environmental practices through educating the public and the business community in the St. Louis region. Our motto is: “We’re all in this together.” We believe that by working together with other entities and by encouraging an open dialogue, we can and do affect positive environmental change.

As an educational organization, we believe it is our duty to provide the St. Louis community with a variety of credible environmental information. We do not exclude organizations or businesses from purchasing a Vendor booth at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival. Educational Exhibitors are classified as organizations that provide hands-on, interactive educational activities. The event is free and open to the public.

We encourage an open and respectful dialogue. In general, people are free to gather anywhere in the Festival footprint for dialogue. Freedom of expression is welcomed as long as it is not detrimental to festival participants, including attendees, vendors, educational exhibitors, entertainers, staff or volunteers. We encourage people to seek information from vendors and educational exhibitors. We realize that a difference of environmental opinion may occur. We believe that an open and respectful dialogue is the most productive way of dealing with a difference of opinion.

However, the following actions will not be tolerated at any time during the festival:

• Carrying of weapons either in the open or concealed
• Verbal harassment
• Threatening language
• Physical confrontation
• Defacement of booths, exhibits or activities
• Destruction of property

If any person or groups of people resort to using any of the above actions, he/she/they will be asked to leave the Festival grounds peacefully. If he/she/they refuse to cease the offending behavior, police will intervene.

How it all began….
In 1969, Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide Earth Day to help put environmental issues onto the national agenda."It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked."

A year later, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated both in Washington, D.C., and on college campuses throughout the country. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in events calling for a healthy, sustainable environment.

Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city dwellers and farmers, businesses and labor leaders. The first Earth Day helped the push nationally to create the United States Environmental Protection Agency and to pass the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Senator Nelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given to civilians in the United States for his role as Earth Day founder.

Since 1989, St. Louis has held its own annual Earth Day festival. This widely celebrated community event has grown in leaps and bounds since its conception over 19 years ago. In addition to the Festival, now held on Muni Theater grounds in Forest Park, stewardship projects, and activities at cultural institutions have all become part of the annual Earth Day in Forest Park celebration. A yearly Earth Day Symposium, attended by government representatives, professionals, and interested citizens, brings fresh ideas to the area on the latest concepts in sustainable restoration and development. Earth Day K-12 Teachers’ Guides and Around Town events bring observance of the Earth Day holiday to communities and schools across the region.