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BiodiverseCity St. Louis Speaker Series – Wild Ideas Worth Sharing: Global Voices
BiodiverseCity St. Louis Speaker Series – Wild Ideas Worth Sharing: Global Voices Wild Ideas Worth Sharing returns with global perspectives on ways that cities, communities, and entire cultures can enable a greater diversity of life to survive and thrive. Saving Plants—Saving Ourselves Dr. Peter Raven—President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden Our attainment of a sustainable future […]
Taking Down Graffiti on #GiveSTLDay
Taking Down Graffiti on #GiveSTLDay Brightside St. Louis is excited to gear up for another amazing Give STL Day, which will take place on Tuesday, May 5th from midnight to midnight. Together we can make this the biggest giving day of the year! This year, your Give STL Day contributions to Brightside will support our […]
Academy of Science – The Elephant on the Curb
Academy of Science – The Elephant on the Curb American culture has increasingly embraced a very wasteful lifestyle that relies on single-use and disposable items on a daily basis. In the U.S., the majority of recyclable or compostable items still end up in landfills, taking up valuable land as well as contributing to greenhouse gas […]
USGBC – 8th Annual Green Schools Event
USGBC – 8th Annual Green Schools Event Thirty-eight schools are participating in the 2014-15 Green Schools Quest. At each school, Green Teams are hard at work devising and implementing – with the help of a USGBC-MGC Green Mentor – creative, effective and no or low cost sustainable practices for their school. The 8th Annual Green Schools Event will celebrate participants […]
March 2015 Brightside Events & Volunteer Opportunities
March 2015 Brightside Events & Volunteer Opportunities What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for March.
Call For Sustainable Backyards
Call for Sustainable Backyards The Sustainable Backyard Tour returns for the fifth year on Sunday, June 14th, 2015. A free, grassroots, self-guided tour of residential yards (front and back!) throughout St. Louis city and county, the tour showcases a range of green living practices, including low-impact lawn care, composting and using recycled materials, organic gardening, […]
USGBC Speaker Series – Sustainability Ratings for Existing Neighborhoods
USGBC Speaker Series – Sustainability Ratings for Existing Neighborhoods Hear speakers Eliot Allen, Criterion Planners & Rachel Witt, South Grand Community Improvement District discuss urban sustainability rating tools that are fundamental instruments for helping achieve green community goals. This session will take an in-depth look at tools for EXISTING neighborhoods, ranging from 2030 Districts to Community Wildlife Habitat. […]
Trade Trash For Prizes!
Trade Trash For Prizes! On Saturday, March 21st volunteers are needed for the 7th annual Confluence Trash Bash, a region-wide clean-up effort to remove trash and litter threatening area streams and rivers. This year, for the first time, Brightside and the City of St. Louis will take part in the clean-up and we are […]