September 10, 2010 (Friday), 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. What: Native Plant Sale. Where: Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve, Highway 100 and Interstate 44, Gray Summit 63039. Cost: Free to Missouri Botanical Garden members, $3 non-member. For more information: www.shawnature.org. September 16, 2010 (Thursday), 6:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m. What: Home Composting class. Learn how [...]
One of the challenges for the growing demand for green technology is where to put windmills or solar panels that will work with the current infrastructure of urban communities. An option that is readily available in downtowns across the United States is above open air parking lots. St. Louis has several parking garages that could be [...]
AmerenUE wants your old refrigerator or freezer. They are sponsoring an appliance recycling program to help reduce peoples energy bills. They are paying people $35 to recycle working refrigerators or freezers manufactured prior to 2002. They’ll even pick it up free of charge and properly recycle your old appliances. According to AmerenUE, customers can save [...]
Yesterday, the aviation industry took a step toward the future as a solar-powered aircraft took off yesterday in Payerne, Switzerland. As Reuters reported via Scientific American: The plane, named Solar Impulse, took off for its first 24-hour test flight just after dawn from an air base near this central Swiss town and began climbing above [...]
Sometimes tragedies can seem a long way from St. Louis. In the case of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, we don’t have beaches that are closed due to oil or oil soaked marine animals, but the problem to the people in the Gulf of Mexico is all too real. The site If It Was My Home uses [...]
The link below is a PDF of cooling sights provided by Operation Weather Survival (OWS). Scroll down to page three to see locations in St. Louis. If people need additional information regarding cooling sites, the United Way can be reached at 2-1-1 or 1-800-427-4626. The United Way will help to identify the nearest cooling site [...]
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