Welcome Our Second Green Dining District!

The Green Dining Alliance is thrilled to announce our newest Green Dining District in The Loop! Green Dining Districts are commercial areas where 25% of the locally owned restaurants are GDA [...]

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 [...]