Sustainability

The City of Collinsville is conducting a greenhouse gas inventory, which will breakdown the carbon dioxide emissions from city facility and operations as well as the community at large. The inventory will be presented to the city council and published on the city's website in September.

Metro East Communities Are Beginning To Take Stock Of Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Eric Schmid

Collinsville is the latest city to take an inventory of emissions from buildings, transportation and other sources of carbon dioxide that contribute to global climate change.

Scratch Brewing Company co-owner Marika Josephson holds a hot tray of toasted hickory bark, which she uses to infuse a dark stout beer with a toasted marshmallow flavor. “We almost want this to be smoking by the time we put it in the beer," Josephson said.

Culture & History

These Brewers Are Making Beer That 'Tastes Like Southern Illinois' — With Herbs, Roots And Mushrooms

Shahla Farzan

Nestled within a patchwork of corn and soybean fields in Ava, Illinois, Scratch Brewing Co. uses hyperlocal ingredients foraged from the surrounding forest to flavor its beers. The microbrewery has garnered national attention for its unusual brews, earning a spot as a semifinalist for a James Beard Award this year.

Peter Raven is the president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Health, Science & Environment

'Biological Annihilation' Another Challenge For Humanity, MoBOT's Peter Raven Says

Evie Hemphill

In between all the news updates about the COVID-19 pandemic and protests against police brutality, a totally different story jumped out from the St. Louis…

Sarah Schlafly, co-founder of Mighty Cricket, measures cricket powder on March 14, 2019 for a batch of dark cocoa oatmeal at Urban Eats Cafe.

Health, Science & Environment

The Mighty Cricket Challenge Aims To Get You Comfortable Eating Insects

Emily Woodbury

According to projections by the United Nations, our current food system won’t adequately sustain the 9 billion people expected to be living on Earth by…

(May 31, 2019) Jean Ponzi is the green resources manager at the Missouri Botanical Garden and joined Friday's talk show to expand on on the importance of sustainability and green living.

Health, Science & Environment

How Locals Can Foster A Healthy Environment Through Everyday Living Habits

Lara Hamdan

The 18th annual Green Living Festival returns to the Missouri Botanical Garden this weekend and offers patrons expertise on making links between…

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis Startup Puts Crickets On The Breakfast Table

Shahla Farzan

Sarah Schlafly isn’t squeamish when it comes to eating insects.For her, crickets are just “land shrimp.”The St. Louis-based entrepreneur co-founded Mighty…

Allegra Fuller Snyder, 91, is the only living child of the late architect and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller. She's also a professor emeritus of dance and dance ethnography at UCLA.

Health, Science & Environment

'He was always a step ahead': Buckminster Fuller's lingering influence on St. Louis, the world

Evie Hemphill

For decades, R. Buckminster Fuller was known around the globe for his scholarship and his vision of a future that could work for everyone aboard what he…

Catherine Werner is the director of sustainability in the mayor’s office.

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis looks to shift some focus from carbon footprint to climate handprint

Evie Hemphill

Within a global context of climate change, individual attention to butterfly gardens, light bulbs, recycling and other efforts can sometimes seem rather…

LED light beside a decades old bulb-based streetlight fixture.

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis replacing streetlights, says it will save money and energy

Wayne Pratt

An initiative to update streetlights could save the City of St. Louis more than $150,000 a year. Installation of new LED technology is already underway…

St. Louis Historically and Dynamically Sustainable. Cake made for progress report at the Botanical Garden in the Sputnik Pavillon on Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Government, Politics & Issues

Sustainability plan from 2013 exceeds goals

In 2013, the city of St. Louis launched its sustainability plan, setting 29 goals to be accomplished by 2018. At a progress report Wednesday, Mayor…