The Mobile Mobius – A History of the Recycling Symbol

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 [...]

Citizens for Modern Transit are showing their love for our Metrolink system with their second annual Transit Crush on February 11th; participants will display their PDA for public transportation [...]

Urban Chestnut has always wanted to explore new flavors, but hasn’t had the capacity to make the small batches this process requires. This is why they’ve decided to open  The Urban [...]

GDA Certified restaurant and brewery Urban Chestnut in the Grove is teaming up with Gateway Greening‘s Pints ‘n’ Plants series for a talk by John Miller, an expert in purple [...]

It’s difficult for the average farmer to budget the time for the long drive to Saint Louis in order to sell food, especially if they run a small operation that focuses on sustainably raised [...]

An unseasonably warm day in December of 2015 brought an unusual gift to the JeffVanderLou neighborhood: a beautifully renovated Metro bus, laden with fresh produce for area residents. The St. [...]