After four years of hearings and court battles, Ameren Missouri will move ahead with a planned coal ash landfill in Franklin County, Missouri.
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Norfolk Entrepreneur Wants To Bring Architectural Salvage, Upcycling Market To Arts District
Entrepreneur George Arbogust wants to open a market and gallery in Norfolk, Virginia’s Arts District dedicated to architectural salvage and upcycled works.
How To Create A Movement For Curbside Recycling In Your Town
Curbside recycling increases the amount of material diverted from landfills, so use these successful tactics to bring this service to your community.
St. Louis Suburb Pulls Outdoor Christmas Decorations from the Trash [Video]
Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, has gone sustainable with its outdoor Christmas decorations: they’re upcycled from discarded materials.
What’s Your Business Waste Worth? Find Out on a Commercial Materials Exchange
The commercial materials exchange takes business waste from one place, and offers it for sale or use to organizations or other businesses that need it.
Blog Action Day: It Takes a Community to Cut Our Resource Use
How can a community cut its resource use? By coming together and committing to do so. That’s how Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage illustrates the Power of We.
The Five Worst States for Renewable Energy Development
Despite the availability of clean and sustainable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and biomass, many states depend on outdated and dirty energy sources. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee are among the most in need of an energy portfolio diversification.
Another Front Yard Garden Raises Hackles at City Hall
Karl Tricamo of Ferguson, Missouri, is challenging the city’s claim that his front-yard organic garden violates city codes.
Learn About Living Off The Grid as a Homesteading Intern
Want to learn what it is really like living off the grid in a solar and wind-powered straw bale house? Want to try your hand at organic gardening and building a sauna with natural materials? Check out this internship opportunity at NE Missouri’s Red Earth Farms.
Cycling Superheroes to Love Bomb Texas this Winter
Since 2000, a group of loosely organized people have gathered annually or biannually, doing spontaneous service while travelling, self-supported, on bicycles. Major aspects of the rides include: Providing service wherever [ … ]
Green Government 2.0: State Blogs on Environmental Issues
How do elected officials attempt to ensure transparency these days (or, at least, the appearance of transparency)? By posting information online… we saw yet another example of this just in [ … ]
Does Tree House Building Sound Like a Good Time?
How about wind-turbine construction? And a big family-friendly party in the midst of all the building projects? Sound like your kind of thing? Then you may want to make your [ … ]
The Missouri Department of Agriculture responds…
Editor’s note: This morning, I was pleasantly surprised by a response from Dr. Jon Hagler, Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, to Sunday’s post on the Governor’s Conference on [ … ]