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  • 2022 State of the Chapter

    Join us for our annual State of the Chapter & Social on Tuesday, January 11th as we kick off the new year. We look forward to connecting with you virtually at this FREE event – open to members and non-members! 2022 STATE OF THE CHAPTER GUEST SPEAKERS: Kiara Fite, Communication & Outreach Coordinator at Flance Early Learning Center  - discussing Flance's sustainability efforts and Green Ribbon School designation Ben Evans, Federal Legislative Director for USGBC - discussing the infrastructure bill Click here for list of attendees

  • Connect on the Quest – Water Quality & Waste Diversion

    Connect on the Quest: Water Quality & Waste Diversion A monthly virtual speakers series sharing Green Schools Quest project stories and resources to support schools in their green schools endeavors.  The January 18th Connect on the Quest will focus on Water Quality & Waste Diversion. PRESENTERS Kat Golden, Sustainability Education Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden's EarthWays Center - waste and water programs and resources available to K-12 schools including Leadership in Environmental Action Projects (LEAP) and MSD Clean Water Education (watershed models in the classroom, storm drain marking projects, PD for educators) Jenny Wendt, Plastic Waste Reduction Campaign Manager, Mississippi Rivers Cities & Towns Initiative -  Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative and opportunities for schools to engage Benjamin Winkler, School Programs – Waste Diversion Program, Saint Louis County Department of Public Health - free waste-related programs available to schools located in St. Louis County Samantha Villaire, Brightside St. Louis - recycling resources for K-12 schools located within the City of St. Louis Briana Robles, AmeriCorps member, Water Education Development Coordinator, St. Louis Aquarium Foundation - water-related resources for schools available through the St. Louis Aquarium Foundation GSQ School Updates 

  • Coffee Break: Energy Management Through Building Automation

    Building Automation Systems come in all shapes and sizes, from single pieces of HVAC equipment to fully integrated smart buildings. While the name, Building Automation System implies only 'automatic control' of buildings, there is a responsibility to control the 'building efficiency' as well. During this Coffee Break discussion we'll here from local Mid Missouri Controls Manager, Chris Ruth on the relationship between Building Automation and Energy Management with real life examples on finding the balance between the two - key to building and energy optimization.  FEATURED GUEST Chris Ruth, BCxP, GPRO O&M, Mid Missouri Controls Manager, Integrated Facility Services Chris Ruth has been a member of the Integrated Facility Services team for 17 years. He has held various roles in the company’s Building Automation and Energy Management Division, and currently serves as the Controls Manager for the Mid-Missouri Division. In this capacity, Chris oversees Building Automation projects completed by IFS across the State of Missouri. Chris and his team of project managers and project foremen work closely with the customers from the projects inception and design all the way through operation and maintenance to insure overall quality and performance of their automation system. As a member of the U.S. Green Building Council-Missouri Gateway Chapter, Chris is the chair-elect of the… Continue Reading Coffee Break: Energy Management Through Building Automation

  • Resiliency Depends on Equity: Applying National Lessons to Local Communities

    Have you or your organization experienced extreme weather? Your community? In 2021 the United States experienced extreme weather; extreme temperatures reaching 115 degrees, mega-drought, wildfires, extreme winter storms leaving millions without power, extreme rain and flash floods, flooding, a derecho and tornadoes, earthquakes...  Cady Seabaugh is addressing the urgency of climate change in her work with affordable housing development, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 5:30 PM, virtually, as a discussion forum in design, equity, and operations - before, during, and after extreme weather crises. Cady will take her experiences with extreme weather from Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Western Virgin Islands, and bring lessons learned home, to your Gateway region. Join in this discussion forum as we gain understanding of designing-in community connections, resiliency, communication, operations, and policy in your built environment. Resiliency Depends on Equity.  For communities to become truly equitable, all people need to have access to the same levels of resilience to climate change and social upheavals. This program will include an overview of the threats to the St. Louis region for climate change, how these threats disproportionately affect low-income residents, and how lessons learned from other regions of the country can be applied to help mitigate the impacts on lower income people.… Continue Reading Resiliency Depends on Equity: Applying National Lessons to Local Communities

  • Connect on the Quest – Climate Action

    Connect on the Quest: Climate Action A monthly virtual speakers series sharing Green Schools Quest project stories and resources to support schools in their green schools endeavors. The February 15th Connect on the Quest will focus on Climate Action.  PRESENTERS: Dr. Leigh Anne Neal, Chief of Early Childhood Learning / Sustainability, Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) & Joan Leavens, co-chair of Climate Action Plan for Climate Action KC and former Coordinator of Sustainability and Community Engagement, SMSD will discuss their experiences engaging SMSD with the Youth Summit for Climate Action Todd Clauer, Upper School Principal / College Guidance Director, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (HBHA) will share how HBHA has engaged students in policy advocacy.   Sami Aaron, Founder, The Resilient Activist will share resources available through The Resilient Activist whose mission is to build resilience, optimism, and hope in response to the impact of the climate crisis. They provide community-building programs that offer inspiration, self-care, and mental health support. Their programs are immersed in deep nature-connection and designed to nourish positive ecological change. Rebecca Weaver, Missouri Cities Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy will introduce the St. Louis EcoUrban Assessment Tool, an interactive tool visualizing environmental challenges and opportunities in the St. Louis region. GSQ Project Updates: Meredith Jacques, Parkway Spark! Bioscience GSQ Project Update: Lynne… Continue Reading Connect on the Quest – Climate Action

  • Coffee Break: Green Basics in Business Operations with the St. Louis Green Business Challenge

    The St. Louis Green Business Challenge promotes Green practices, policies, thinking, and  strategy by collaborating across our local business sectors. The Challenge? Green Basics in business operations.  Housing a network of companies committed to green policy and practice, and integrating sustainable measures into their daily operations, Year 13 of the St. Louis Green Business Challenge is aiming to: advocate and facilitate processes for Green Collar Jobs,  promote strategies learned from Challenge participants addressing climate change issues with a Triple Bottom Line approach, and  work to collaborate with USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter on integrating Green Business Basics into regional economic development plans, partnerships, and dialogues.  FEATURED GUEST Jean Ponzi, St. Louis Green Business Challenge Program Manager and Green Resource Manager, EarthWays Center of Missouri Botanical Garden  A 26-year veteran of the Garden's EarthWays Center team, "Green Jean" currently applies her sustainability expertise as manager of the St. Louis Green Business Challenge, operator of the Garden's Green Resources Info Service, and is on the leadership team for the regional initiative BiodiverseCity St. Louis. Her enviro-interview show Earthworms has logged over 31 years of conversations through KDHX St. Louis Independent Media, as her volunteer community service. Jean is in demand as a speaker, writer and media spokesperson, offering local to… Continue Reading Coffee Break: Green Basics in Business Operations with the St. Louis Green Business Challenge

  • Coffee Break: West Florissant Ave. Great Streets Project & Federal Infrastructure Funding

    The West Florissant Avenue Great Streets Project has been a development in planning with the community of Ferguson, North County, St. Louis Missouri, since 2013 and in design since 2016. Join Acting Director of Transportation and Public Works, Stephanie Leon-Streeter at St. Louis County in discussion on community engagement, planning, design and breaking ground on The West Florissant Avenue Project and how Federal Infrastructure spending has helped meet the needs of the Ferguson community, while promoting a safer and more connected future.  West Florissant Avenue Project is "more than just updated transportation… its a game changer for some," says Stephanie Leon-Streeter. Join the conversation at this month's 1st Friday Coffee Break, Friday, March 4, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am CST, virtually.  FEATURED GUESTS Stephanie Leon-Streeter, P.E., Acting Director - Transportation and Public Works, St. Louis County  Stephanie began working for St. Louis County in 2001 as the Division Manager of Planning and Programming responsible for the Department’s transportation capital construction program and budget, the capital investment initiative, rehabilitation program development, transportation planning studies, civil plan review and permitting, highway standards development and review, facility condition assessments, the facility capital and maintenance budget, and facility leases. Stephanie currently serves as the Acting Director responsible for all functions, actions and… Continue Reading Coffee Break: West Florissant Ave. Great Streets Project & Federal Infrastructure Funding

  • Designing Housing to Adapt to the Changing Needs of Families, Neighborhoods, Cities, and our Natural Environment

    How homes are conceived, clustered, and constructed can be the foundation for building community or breaking it. Homes involve personal factors such as how individuals live today and how the home can adapt to the changes of our stages of life over time, making them one of the most dynamic and diverse kinds of projects for architects.  From single-family to affordable housing, homes invoke environmental factors of climate action - such as what we build them out of, material, how much energy they use, design, and how long they will serve their purpose before being torn down, resiliency. Housing is complex and prolific. Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 5:30 pm, virtually, Wyly Brown will present some of the complexities of designing quality housing that is environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, and financially feasible. Topics of focus will include Net-Zero energy use, minimizing a home's carbon footprint, affordability, multi-generation living, retrofitting existing (and historic) buildings to enable aging in place, and the use of recycled materials and products. SPEAKER Wyly Brown, Founding Partner, Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten and Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School  Wyly Brown is a Founding Partner of Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten, and the partner responsible for the projects conducted in North America. Wyly holds a Bachelors of Art in Anthropology, and… Continue Reading Designing Housing to Adapt to the Changing Needs of Families, Neighborhoods, Cities, and our Natural Environment

  • COFFEE BREAK: Alternative Proteins are to Agriculture as Renewables are to Energy: The Future

    People in every corner of the planet need our food system to be sustainable, secure, and just. Yet consumption of conventionally produced animal meat—which causes multiple existential risks (climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemic risk, loss of biodiversity)—continues to rise. Alternative proteins—meat made from plants or cultivated from animal cells—can decouple meat production from a host of harms and usher in a more restorative, resilient food future. Given that taste, price, and convenience determine what most people eat, GFI works around the world to advance alternative proteins to be as delicious, affordable, and accessible as conventional meat. By reimagining how meat is made, we can help get the world to net-zero emissions, protect global health, feed more people with fewer resources, and enable animals and ecosystems to recover and thrive. FEATURED GUEST Sheila Voss, Vice President of Communications, The Good Food Institute Voss serves as the vice president of communications for The Good Food Institute, an international network of nonprofit organizations working to create a sustainable, secure, and just food system. As a nonprofit think tank and open-access resource hub powered by philanthropy, GFI works around the world to advance alternative protein science, policy, and markets to tackle the biggest challenges of our time: getting to net-zero emissions, feeding 10 billion, protecting global health,… Continue Reading COFFEE BREAK: Alternative Proteins are to Agriculture as Renewables are to Energy: The Future

  • COFFEE BREAK: Better than Net Zero from Day 1 – Introducing Climate Friendly Snacking

    Climate Friendly Snacking. Can crackers really fight climate change? Or be carbon neutral? Over 25% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food supply chain. Come learn more about how Airly Foods (owned by St Louis-based Post Holdings, Inc) is looking to challenge the way food is made from seed to shelf to create Climate Friendly Snacking where every box sold actually removes greenhouse gases from the air! FEATURED GUEST Jen McKnight, President and Co-Founder of Bright Future Foods, the makers of Airly Climate Friendly Snacks Jen has spent over 20 years in consumer packaged goods, beginning her career at Procter & Gamble as a mechanical engineer. She went on to earn her MBA at Kellogg School of Management and enter a career in brand management, working at companies including Clorox, Premier Nutrition and Campbell’s where she successfully led growth and innovation on a range of iconic brands across many categories. Jen passionately believes climate change is a colossal challenge that needs bold solutions NOW, that’s why she made the decision to dedicate all her efforts toward driving innovative solutions to this threat. For the past several years, she and her Airly co-founders have been on a mission to reverse climate… Continue Reading COFFEE BREAK: Better than Net Zero from Day 1 – Introducing Climate Friendly Snacking

  • Evening Educational Program: Resilient Waterways, Watersheds & Their Cities

    Derek Hoeferlin’s “Way Beyond Bigness” design-research project comparatively studies the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins, focused on multi-scaled, water-based infrastructural transformation and their various impacts on riverways, cities, and larger regions, particularly when coupled with the impacts of climate change. “Way Beyond Bigness” realigns watersheds and architecture across multiple scales, disciplines, narratives. Hoeferlin will frame the impacts on rivers and cities from a larger perspective at the scale of watersheds. Colin Wellenkamp in his role of Executive Director of an association of 101 U.S. Mayors along the Mississippi River, will outline the tremendous challenges facing America's Waterways. Additionally, Colin will detail what cities are doing at corridor scale to address the challenges described and achieve a new degree of climate resilience and mitigation for at least a generation. However, this is a new moment for the Mississippi Corridor - the Jobs Act coupled with new partnerships spearheaded by the Mayors have created a unique opportunity. SPECIAL REMARKS Hon. Robert Eastern, East St. Louis, IL The Honorable Robert Eastern III was elected Mayor of the Great City of East St. Louis in April 2019. East St. Louis has always been his home, he graduated from Lincoln Senior High School and… Continue Reading Evening Educational Program: Resilient Waterways, Watersheds & Their Cities