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Starting 2018 with a brand new set of resolutions? Perhaps you’ve made goals to budget better, or visit the gym more often, or maybe you’re aspiring to take on a new hobby. Whatever you’ve [...]

It’s that time of the year again where families start to gather for big holiday dinners,  celebrate gift exchanges, and enjoy potluck-style with friends. There always seems to be an overarching [...]

Membership for the 100+ restaurants in the Green Dining Alliance has requirements for becoming part of our team. Members must not use styrofoam, they must provide single-stream recycling, and [...]

The Green Dining Alliance has been busy over the last year:  we’ve grown to over 1oo members, added a new Green Dining District in The Loop, presented and tabled at community events, [...]

Need a present for someone who has it all? Want to give a gift to someone who hates Styrofoam? Need to please an avid recycler? The GDA is here to help! Our re-usable, machine washable bamboo [...]

The Green Dining Alliance and St. Louis Earth Day recently worked with students of St. Louis University’s MBA program on an Experimental Learning Project to determine the “Real Cost [...]

Is there anything worse than feeling used and discarded? Billions of single-use items like straws, cutlery, and styrofoam to-go boxes are used for just a few minutes, then thrown away without a [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]