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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Why are cities around the USA and world banning Styrofoam? In short: it’s very toxic. Honestly, it’s downright creepy.   Take a look at this fact sheet to see how and why [...]

Autumn may mean the end to the fruits of summer, but nature has more showing off to do before winter’s first chill stops most wild things from blooming. The changing of the leaves is a [...]

Written and published September 2015 by Olivia Engel, Green Dining Alliance Program Coordinator A new kind of urban farm has opened its doors to the St. Louis public. Urban Harvest STL (UHSTL), [...]