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Celebrate Earth Day with the Green Dining Alliance by coming to eat at the 30th Anniversary St. Louis Earth Day Festival on April 27th and 28th. The festival is open from 11 am-5 pm both days, [...]

The Green Dining Alliance is thrilled to announce South Grand as our newest Green Dining District!   Green Dining Districts are areas where at least 25% of the independent restaurants are GDA [...]

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 [...]

In the Shaw neighborhood, near Saint Louis’ iconic, world-renowned Botanical Garden, a new school is in the works. The Green House Venture is a joint effort from Saint Louis [...]

Written and published October 2015 by Olivia Engel, Green Dining Alliance Program Coordinator St. Louis has an expanding, evolving, and – I would say – fantastic food scene. [...]

Every August, Feast Magazine’s “Feast 50” celebrates major players and innovators in the regional food scene. It’s Feast Mag’s fifth anniversary this year, and their [...]

Written and published July 2015 by Olivia Engel, Green Dining Alliance Program Coordinator Open the cover of this newly published book by St. Louis author Katie Belisle-Iffrig to see the growing [...]

Business owners enticed by commercial incentives for switching to LED’s – and using at least 75% less energy as well as cutting back on heat radiating from their bulbs – must [...]

Written and published June 2015 by Olivia Engel, Green Dining Alliance Program Coordinator St. Louis Zoo took concrete steps toward decreasing the environmental impact of their onsite restaurant, [...]

There’s more happening GDA restaurants than “going green.” The chefs working behind the scenes turning local, fresh ingredients into savory concoctions – from beets to [...]