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Do You Know Your Flood Risk? Upcoming Open House Meetings for Southern Illinois – Metro East Region
Southern Illinois Sustainability – Residents Invited to FEMA Updated Flood Maps Open House Meetings January 2023 Continue Reading Do You Know Your Flood Risk? Upcoming Open House Meetings for Southern Illinois – Metro East Region
BEPS Handbook
Did you know that the City of St. Louis was just the fourth jurisdiction in the United States to pass a Building Energy Performance Standard - and the first in the Midwest? We're so proud to have played a role in getting both the benchmarking & Building Energy...
Advancing EE, RE, EV Policy Toolkit
Even though it's a few years old, we thought the timing was right to re-shareAdvancing Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicle Policy in the St. Louis Region. This toolkit was created to help advocate for action and policy in the built environment...
Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook Now Available!
By Steve O'Rourke, Missouri Gateway GBC 2022 Board Chair and Profit Center Manager at Greentech Renewables The Inflation Reduction Act has been widely lauded as the most aggressive action toward tackling the climate crisis in American history, and the White House just...
City of St. Louis Passes Building Performance Standard (Archive
Originally published April 24, 2020 Earlier this week, the City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a Building Energy Performance Standard. USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter couldn’t be more proud of our City and the work of our staff and members in...
Interview with Harvard’s Gregory Norris on ‘Handprints’ (Archive)
Originally Published March 7, 2019 KDHX Earthworms gets in touch with Handprints: Dr. Gregory Norris shares this powerfully encouraging idea with host Jean Ponzi. A lot of enviro-info dis-credits our human species for the impacts of our "footprints" on Earth's...