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March 26, 2024 Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
- Published on Thursday March 7th, 2024
Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
Land Use Planning for Sustainable Communities
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
3:45pm-5:00pm Presentation & Discussion (join in person or on Zoom)
5:00pm-6:00pm Networking (in person only)
Join in Person:
T-REX (911 Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis)
Sharptooth Boardroom (5th Floor)
Plan your trip using public transit here.
Register and Join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdOiprDgrE91NRi9Vj2BojTI_UWBb-z2S#/registration
Join us to discuss with City Planning Executive Miriam Keller how the City of St. Louis is updating its Strategic Land Use Plan, the land use element of its Comprehensive Plan. This process is a unique opportunity to put into action community needs such as housing diversity, access to transit, and even climate resilience. Land use decisions are a key component of sustainable communities, because they can shape walkability, flood risk, extreme heat, and more. The City's Strategic Land Use Plan sets a vision for how to use land in the city, block by block, to guide future zoning and other land use policy.
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EWG is committed to ensuring that all meetings are both ADA and LEP accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation for this meeting please contact EWG's Title VI Coordinator at least 48 business hours prior to the meeting at (314) 421-4220 or (618) 274-2750 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
April 30, 2024 Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
- Published on Thursday March 7th, 2024
Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
Energy Burden
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
3:45pm-5:00pm Presentation & Discussion (join in person or on Zoom)
5:00pm-6:00pm Networking (in person only)
Join in Person:
T-REX (911 Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis)
Sharptooth Boardroom (5th Floor)
Plan your trip using public transit here.
Register and Join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudu6rrjIrHNfeHXs_BWfkSAwvQIrBsXzl
The term “energy burden” refers to the percentage of a household's income that goes to utility bills, which can skyrocket in drafty, inefficient buildings. Nationally, African American and Latino communities often have energy burdens three times that of average household. St. Louis looks no different, as it consistently ranks in the top ten cities with the highest energy burden for African-American households. Renew Missouri, in partnership with Consumers Council of Missouri, is working on a project that studies disparities in energy burdens and identifies solutions for lowering energy costs for families across the Greater St. Louis area. Join us at the April Sustainability Lab to learn about Renew Missouri's work to analyze energy burden disparities, engage impacted communities, and collaboratively develop solutions.
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EWG is committed to ensuring that all meetings are both ADA and LEP accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation for this meeting please contact EWG's Title VI Coordinator at least 48 business hours prior to the meeting at (314) 421-4220 or (618) 274-2750 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Clean School Buses Coming to the Region
- Published on Wednesday March 6th, 2024
Awards from the EPA's Clean School Bus Program Grants competition were recently announced for Cahokia Heights, East St. Louis, and Granite City in Illinois. In Missouri, the Ferguson-Florissant School District and Ritenour School District received funding for clean school buses. Funding was also awarded to a third party that will provide clean school buses to Normandy Schools Collaborative and Saint Louis Public Schools. Electrifying school buses can help reduce air pollutants that can be harmful to the health of children, such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxide (NOx). Electric buses also have a reduced greenhouse gas emissions footprint, compared to diesel buses.
Find press releases below for awards in each state:
February 27, 2024 Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
- Published on Monday January 1st, 2024
Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
Coordination for Resilient Urban Forests
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
3:45pm-5:00pm Presentation & Discussion (join in person or on Zoom)
5:00pm-6:00pm Networking (in person only)
Join in Person:
T-REX (911 Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis)
Sharptooth Boardroom (5th Floor)
Plan your trip using public transit here.
Register and Join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfuGtpz8sHNZYaDZ0nCKZ0agTg-pWfupV
How can we be more strategic about tree canopy in order to support an expanded, resilient urban forest delivering the biggest benefits? Join Meridith Perkins, Executive Director of Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Erin Godwin, President of STL TreeLC to discuss how we need to have all the players at the table aligned around ensuring that trees reach their full potential and deliver on the eco-services we need for climate adaptation.
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EWG is committed to ensuring that all meetings are both ADA and LEP accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation for this meeting please contact EWG's Title VI Coordinator at least 48 business hours prior to the meeting at (314) 421-4220 or (618) 274-2750 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Green Schoolyard at Froebel Literacy Academy
- Published on Thursday December 28th, 2023
Author: OneSTL Communications Team
Currently in the design phase, Froebel Literacy Academy will host the first official Green Schoolyard, in order to improve stormwater management and access to nature for students. (Photo credit: St. Louis Public Schools)
There is increasing acceptance that nature-based experiences are vital to emboldening the shared generational response needed to limit negative changes to our biosphere. This motivation for fostering green spaces can be balanced against the individual health benefits that come from active minds and bodies. In the urban core, naturalizing a school’s outdoor play space is an opportunity that comes with many potential benefits.
The Nature Conservancy, Missouri Department of Conservation, and St Louis Public Schools, along with other local partners such as Dutchtown South Community Corporation, have collaborated to launch a pilot program to reinvent outdoor play spaces. East-West Gateway assisted with data collection and analysis for the Green Schoolyard prioritization and expansion plan. The first official Green Schoolyard in the St. Louis area will be at Froebel Literacy Academy in the Gravois Park neighborhood. There is a nationwide movement to reduce impervious surfaces and replace it with a more stimulating play space. This work will not be limited to Froebel Academy, but those students will be the first to benefit from this regional collaboration, made possible by funding provided by the Metropolitan Sewer District, TNC, MDC, SLPS, and SLPS Foundation. The project at Froebel Academy is currently in the design phase. For additional information about the project, click here.
Collaborative Climate Action Webinars Jan 25 and Feb 8
- Published on Wednesday November 29th, 2023
Dynamic partnerships in Kansas City and Cincinnati will share their process to engage leadership, including elected officials and business leaders, in climate action. Save the date for two FREE webinars hosted by the St. Louis Green Business Challenge and OneSTL:
January 25, noon-1pm: Green Umbrella (Cincinnati) on Zoom. Register here: https://secure.missouribotanicalgarden.org/overview/9491
February 8, noon-1pm: Climate Action KC (Kansas City) on Zoom. Register here: https://secure.missouribotanicalgarden.org/overview/9493
Click here to subscribe to Green Business Challenge eNews for registration details and other valuable resources! Click here to learn more about successes from the Challenge from this past year.
January 30, 2024 Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
- Published on Tuesday November 28th, 2023
Sustainability Lab @ T-REX
An Equitable Transition to a Green Workforce
Tuesday, January 30, 2023
3:45pm-5:00pm Rountable Discussion (join in person or on Zoom)
5:00pm-6:00pm Networking (in person only)
Join in Person:
T-REX (911 Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis)
Sharptooth Boardroom (5th Floor)
Plan your trip using public transit here.
Register and Join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ofu2hrjIrGdLml5gaEUzTqnrdTn7oSCMf
The scarcity of workers poses a challenge for many agencies trying to make buildings more energy efficient, maintain healthy trees, and have enough bus drivers for reliable public transportation. This Sustainability Lab will be a roundtable discussion about workforce shortages as a potential barrier to decarbonization in the St. Louis Region, and how to equitably grow our green workforce. We will start off the conversation discussing the shortage of workers different agencies are seeing, discuss the great work that is being done to fill these gaps, and what more is needed to address these issues.
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EWG is committed to ensuring that all meetings are both ADA and LEP accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation for this meeting please contact EWG's Title VI Coordinator at least 48 business hours prior to the meeting at (314) 421-4220 or (618) 274-2750 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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