A Multitude of Choices: The GDA Hits 100!

There are infinite choices for diners in Saint Louis – discerning what restaurant to visit can be a challenge. Luckily the GDA is here to help! The Green Dining Alliance has worked since [...]

Did you know that plastic cutlery is never recyclable, even if it has a recycling symbol on it? The thin, cheap plastic these single-use items are made from often fall through the cracks of the [...]

In America, we have a problem with food that is obscured by a cloud – a cloud composed largely of methane. Methane is a huge problem for the atmosphere. While its lifespan is not as long as [...]

St. Louis Earth Day Festival-goers may have noticed a lack of the run-of-the-mill festival food at our annual party in Forest Park- no funnel cakes, cotton candy, corn dogs, or giant sodas. [...]

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With Earth Day rapidly approaching, now is a good time to reflect on a symbol intrinsically related to our identity as environmentalists: the recycling symbol. The symbol was designed in 1969 as [...]

Energy production contributes more Greenhouse Gas emissions than transportation… …Especially in states that get most of their energy from burning coal, as Missouri does. A recent [...]

Styrofoam. Nobody likes it. It’s awful for the environment, not great for people, and crummy at the one thing it’s supposed to do: contain food. Saucy food slides everywhere, the lids [...]

Written and published March 2016 by Olivia Engel, Green Dining Alliance Program Coordinator Those little recycling arrows on the bottom of plastic disposables may give you the feeling that all [...]

If you’re like most people, you probably waste food more often than you’d like. It’s an easy thing to do thanks to the abundance of delicious temptations to face at the store, in vending [...]