Green Resources

Take Earth Day Action: Call your state senator by 4pm!

April 22, 2013

Vote Update, (04/23) Thank you to everyone who called, and many thanks to our Missouri State Senators who supported Solid Waste Management District Funding. Yesterday we received word that funding that has already been granted and allocated for 2013-2014 is safe. We can’t stress enough how thankful we are for the work of those senators [...]

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Act On Energy program provides information and cash.

April 9, 2013

Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois will be coming together to educate about energy efficiency at the St. Louis Earth Festival. In 2013, Ameren rolled out a new program called Act On Energy to help people identify the areas where energy efficiency can be implemented, and what funding is available to help. It turns out, there [...]

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Creative uses for bread heels from Nature’s Own.

April 8, 2013

Each year, nearly 40% of all food in the United States goes uneaten (Science Daily), bread included! Nature’s Own, America’s #1 choice in soft-variety bread, knows the plight of the poor bread heels all too well. Bread heels are often passed over as many people reach for the center of the loaf for the softest slices, [...]

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The airport just got a whole lot more festive!

March 28, 2013

On Tuesday, Programs and Communication Director, Jeanette Reynolds and REFAB Founder, Eric Schwarz descended upon the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport with a van full of St. Louis Earth Day goodies. The mission? Turn sixty feet of display space into a mini-Earth Day Festival. For the second year, the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and the City of [...]

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Medicine take-back on April 21.

March 18, 2013

The Recycling Extravaganza will accept your hard-to-recycle items 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 21st on the St. Louis Community College Forest Park campus parking lot off Oakland Ave. All are invited to load up their cars, trucks or bicycle baskets with any (or all) of the items that will be collected by one [...]

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