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Food
Operation Food Search: a St. Louis food bank that distributes food free of charge to food pantries to help feed the poor and hungry.
6282 Olive Blvd | St. Louis, MO 63130
(314) 726-5355
http://www.ofsearch.org/
Buttonwood Farms: Helping St. Louis access local food (local food distributor).
Email.
Organizations
Earthways Center: A resource for all things green, particularly greening the built environment through green building and energy efficiency (for businesses and homeowners).
(314) 577-0220
http://earthwayscenter.org/
Recycling Guides
OneSTL’s Recycle Responsibly campaign is a useful tool for recycling basics.
St. Louis City Recycles has a handy guide for common items that go in your blue bin and a handy guide for items the need to be taken to specific destinations for recycling.
St. Louis Jefferson Solid Waste Management District: interactive database allows you to search for local businesses who except ALL SORTS of “waste” for recycling, reusing, and re-purposing.
http://www.swmd.net/rrr/index.php
St. Louis County Department of Health: Solid Waste Management Department: Excellent online guides and resources for Hazardous Waste, Recycling, Purchasing Guides, and more!
http://www.stlouisco.com/doh/waste/waste_mg.html
Reduce, Reuse, Recycling/Composting
St. Louis Teachers’ Recycling Center: Takes industrial waste products (scrap fabrics, plastic parts, odd parts, etc) and makes it available for teachers to use in creative educational projects.
Several locations, call for details.
(636) 227-7095
www.sltrc.com/
St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District: a regional agency created to assist the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in establishing and expanding waste reduction and recycling. They have a database to help you find various recycling services in the St. Louis area.
http://www.swmd.net/rrr/index.php
Transportation
Trailnet: A local not-for-profit organization that focuses on healthy active living and is a resource for multi-modal transit (including safe walking and biking routes as well as bus and light rail routes).
314-436-1324
www.trailnet.org
Venues
Missouri Botanical Gardens: a beautiful location featuring meeting rooms and a Green Restaurant Association certified café.
4344 Shaw Boulevard | St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 577-0200
http://mobot.org/
Statewide: Missouri
Energy
Pure Power (by Ameren Missouri): A voluntary program to buy blocks of locally produced renewable energy* ($15 = 1,000 kWh* block = 1 Renewable Energy Certificate). Available for residential and commercial energy use, as well as for event offsets. Green-e certified.
http://www.ameren.com/purepower/
National-wide/On the Web
Car rentals
Avis Rental Cars: Half of their fleet has a fuel efficiency rating of 28 mpg or above; ¼ of the fleet is rated at 30 mpg or better. No hybrid cars available at the St. Louis location.
http://www.avis.com/AvisWeb/html/landing/hybrid-rental.html?mid=PR_AVS
Enterprise Rent-A-Car: Two hybrid branches in the St. Louis area: Downtown, Ladue.
http://www.enterprise.com/car_rental/worldLocationSearch.do
EV rental cars: the Nation’s only environmental rental car company (California and Arizona only)
http://www.evrental.com/index.php
Energy Credit/Offset
NOTE: There are many carbon offset programs available and easily found through an internet search.
Sustainable Travel International has a good guide for accessing the credibility of a carbon offset offer.
http://www.carbonoffsets.org/
Carbon Fund
The Nature Conservancy Climate Change Voluntary Carbon Offset Program
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/activities/art23932.html
TerraPass
Food
Marine Stewardship Council: certification that identifies which fish species have sustainable populations.
http://www.msc.org/cook-eat-enjoy/fish-to-eat
Download a guide on sustainable fish choice (best choices, good alternatives, and what to avoid).
http://www.virginiaaquarium.com/vgn.aspx?vgnextchannel=f839f680ccfdc110VgnVCM100000190c640aRCRD&vgnextparchannel=2693975336192110VgnVCM100000190c640aRCRD#whatis
