Refreshing the Fish Fry

The crocuses and daffodills are blooming, signaling the ressurection of the most anticipated food-event of the Spring: fish fry season! Unfortunately, many parishes serve their tasty golden wares [...]

Bombay Food Junkies – the only  100% vegetarian food truck in the Green Dining Alliance – has made a lot of changes in the last few years. They recently opened a brick and mortar [...]

Patchwork Family Farms,  a non-profit program of Missouri Rural Crisis Center, connects 15 family hog-farmers with consumers, helping to strengthen the declining number of family farms in [...]

Every year, resolutions are made and broken, tossed aside and forgotten like so much single-use plastic. This year, make a resolution to make a difference by doing something easy. [...]

The Green Dining Alliance has been busy over the last year:  we’ve grown to over 1oo members, added a new Green Dining District in The Loop, presented and tabled at community events, [...]

Need a present for someone who has it all? Want to give a gift to someone who hates Styrofoam? Need to please an avid recycler? The GDA is here to help! Our re-usable, machine washable bamboo [...]

The Green Dining Alliance and St. Louis Earth Day recently worked with students of St. Louis University’s MBA program on an Experimental Learning Project to determine the “Real Cost [...]

This week, the GDA attended the U.S. Green Building Council’s Benchmarking Jam (an event to educate the public about Energy Star’s Portfolio Manager program)  in order to learn about [...]

Is there anything worse than feeling used and discarded? Billions of single-use items like straws, cutlery, and styrofoam to-go boxes are used for just a few minutes, then thrown away without a [...]

America wastes a lot of food – it has been estimated that 40% of food in this country gets tossed every year. If you’re wondering how to interpret that number, imagine taking nearly half of every [...]