Do you own or operate buildings? Join the Building Energy Exchange-St. Louis (BE-Ex STL) at their 2023 Owner/Operator series for commercial buildings.
REGISTER NOW As emerging professionals (EP) it's difficult to grasp all the possibilities and potential your career holds. Enjoy a pint of your favorite beverage at various Green Dining Alliance (GDA) certified locations every 1st Thursday @ 4:30 - 6:00 pm. This monthly happy hour event is for all community members to network with local green building and sustainability professionals while discussing opportunities to serve our communities. WHERE: Reduce your carbon impact: Connect with Metro line # All are welcome. Bring a colleague, friend, family or community member to meet and network with Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members and non-members, and other emerging professionals while enjoying a beverage together and building your Green Buildings Are Better community! HOSTED BY Your Engagement & Outreach Committee! REGISTER NOW QUESTIONS? Contact Missouri Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org or 314-577-0884 CONSENT TO USE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE Registration/attendance at, or participation in Missouri Gateway Green Building Council programs and activities constitutes an agreement by the registrants to allow the organization to use and distribute (both now and in the future) the attendee's image, in photographs, video, and electronic reproductions of such events and activities.
REGISTER NOW Join your Missouri Gateway Green Building Council leadership for a Year in Review - Coffee Break on Zoom to discuss favorite sessions, speakers and highlights from 2023. We'll also look ahead to 2024, so bring ideas for any topics and speakers you'd like to see! We'll also take a moment at the end of the session to recognize our amazing volunteers and star Coffee Breakers! Check out our CoffeeBreakPlaylist on YouTube for recordings of our 2023 sessions! REGISTER NOW Need a break? Or a quick face-to-face with your green building community? New thoughts, ideas, and conversation to jump start your day? Join your Green Buildings Are Better community every 3rd Friday on Zoom for a quick (free) coffee break discussing green building and sustainability hot topics with local and national featured guests! View previous LIVE Missouri Gateway Green Building Council Coffee Breaks on our YouTube Channel. Consent to use photographic images: This event will be recorded and shared on our website. Registration/attendance at, or participation in Missouri Gateway Green Building Council programs and activities constitutes an agreement by the registrants to allow the organization to use and distribute (both now and in the future) the attendee’s image, in photographs, video,… Continue Reading Coffee Break – Year in Review
REGISTER NOW As emerging professionals (EP) it's difficult to grasp all the possibilities and potential your career holds. Enjoy a pint of your favorite beverage at various Green Dining Alliance (GDA) certified locations every 1st Thursday @ 4:30 - 6:00 pm. This monthly happy hour event is for all community members to network with local green building and sustainability professionals while discussing opportunities to serve our communities. WHERE: Four Hands Brewery & Tasting Room - Look for us upstairs! 1220 S. 8th Street | St. Louis, MO 63104 Reduce your carbon impact: Connect with Metro line #30 bus or the Red or Blue Metrolink lines All are welcome. Bring a colleague, friend, family or community member to meet and network with Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members and non-members, and other emerging professionals while enjoying a beverage together and building your Green Buildings Are Better community! HOSTED BY Your Engagement & Outreach Committee! REGISTER NOW QUESTIONS? Contact Missouri Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org or 314-577-0854 CONSENT TO USE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE Registration/attendance at, or participation in Missouri Gateway Green Building Council programs and activities constitutes an agreement by the registrants to allow the organization to use and distribute (both now and in the future) the attendee's image, in photographs, video, and… Continue Reading Emerging Professional Happy Hour @ Four Hands Brewery & Tasting Room
USGBC will once again offer First Friday Webinars in 2024. These are previously recorded, highly rated, LEED specific education programs. Gather with peers and colleagues at noon Central Time on first Friday of each month to earn those CEs! USGBC will launch registration for the 2024 series shortly. Stay tuned! Don't miss this Friday's webinar, which has been added to the 2023 series to ease registration. See instruction below for how to register for free. January 5: Best Practices: Tools to Help Meet Your Sustainability Goals Description: From the 2023 Product Solutions Summit and Showcase, join USGBC, One Click LCA, Cerclos and Autocase as they evaluate tools and practices used to vet the embodied and operational carbon at the early planning and conceptual design stage. This session will highlight how important tools can be used to design for carbon reductions with a focus on the triple bottom line. We will discuss practical examples that will offer insight into tools that can support informing building design and how these tools support achieving several LEED credits. These courses are available for anyone to attend, but are free to local or company USGBC members. That includes Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members! Access… Continue Reading First Friday Webinars – Best Practices: Tools to Help Meet Your Sustainability Goals
We are excited to engage our community in helping us design fab new swag to reflect our new brand! We kicked off 2023 with our new name, website and logo - the culmination of an amazing collective effort by the MGGBC team and our volunteer members! We are excited to carry this creative momentum into 2024 with a contest to design fab new swag that celebrates our new brand and embodies the spirit of our new tagline "Connecting people, places, and planet." The contest is open to everyone. Participants can submit up to 3 designs. Strut Your Creative Stuff! Grab some green, blue and gray markers (or mouse, if you prefer digital doodling) and unleash that amazing creativity for a good cause! The winning design will be selected by our Engagement & Outreach Committee and announced at our State of the Council event on January 29th. The winner will receive bragging rights, a free T-Shirt with their design, and a $50 gift card to a Green Dining Alliance restaurant + publicity on our website and via social media! REGISTER NOW Contest Rules All designs must be original creations of the contestant and incorporate the required design components outlined… Continue Reading Launching the 2023 T-Shirt Design Contest!
Join us for a Mentor Meetup to share updates, learn about others' projects and more!
Join us on Monday, January 29 for our Annual State of the Council. Help us kick off the new year and recommit to greener, better buildings! Our featured guest this year is Elysia Russell, the City of St. Louis Sustainability Director. Event is FREE and refreshments will be provided.
REGISTER NOW As emerging professionals (EP) it's difficult to grasp all the possibilities and potential your career holds. Enjoy a pint of your favorite beverage at various Green Dining Alliance (GDA) certified locations every 1st Thursday @ 4:30 - 6:00 pm. This monthly happy hour event is for all community members to network with local green building and sustainability professionals while discussing opportunities to serve our communities. Reduce your carbon impact: Connect with Metro All are welcome. Bring a colleague, friend, family or community member to meet and network with Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members and non-members, and other emerging professionals while enjoying a beverage together and building your Green Buildings Are Better community! HOSTED BY Your Engagement & Outreach Committee! REGISTER NOW QUESTIONS? Contact Missouri Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org or 314-577-0884. CONSENT TO USE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE Registration/attendance at, or participation in Missouri Gateway Green Building Council programs and activities constitutes an agreement by the registrants to allow the organization to use and distribute (both now and in the future) the attendee's image, in photographs, video, and electronic reproductions of such events and activities.
USGBC will once again offer First Friday Webinars in 2024. These are previously recorded, highly rated, LEED specific education programs. Gather with peers and colleagues at noon Central Time on first Friday of each month to earn those CEs! These courses are available for anyone to attend, but are free to local or company USGBC members. That includes Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members! Access the webinar registration and code here. You will be prompted to login to access the code. Once you enter your login details, it will take you to your Member Dashboard. From there, click Member Only Benefits from the left-hand side menu to view the list of benefits and access code for the First Friday Webinars. You can use the code to register for one or more of the first Friday webinars. Questions? Reach out to your MO Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org. REGISTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 2 WEBINAR February: Overview of LEED v5: Taking action on climate, quality of life, and ecology March: LEED v5: Swift Climate Action, Enriched Quality of Life, and Advanced Land Use and Biodiversity April: Navigating Smart Building Certifications for Sustainable Futures May: LEED and Upfront Carbon Emissions:… Continue Reading First Friday Webinar – Overview of LEED v5: Taking action on climate, quality of life, and ecology
Do you own or operate buildings? Would you like to implement more energy efficiency and high performance building strategies? Join the Building Energy Exchange-St. Louis (BE-Ex STL) at their 2024 Owner/Operator series for commercial buildings. Event is free (with coffee and donuts) – please register at https://www.be-exstl.org/events-be-ex 2024 Building Energy Exchange Owner – Operator Series February 6: Financing Energy Efficiency Projects March 5: Energy Audits for Optimal Building Investments April 2: Commissioning - Tuning Up Your Building for Savings May 7: Long Range and Capital Planning for Building Success June 4: Low Cost O&M Solutions for Savings July 2: Building Shell Investments - Keeping the Weather Out August 6: Lighting Upgrades for Savings and Safety September 3: Lighting and Electrical Controls for Bill Reduction October 1: HVAC - Working with What You've Got November 5: HVAC - Making Good Replacement Decisions December 3: Building Automation for Effective Management
A monthly virtual speakers series sharing Green Schools Quest project stories and resources to support schools in their green schools endeavors.