MCE Rapid Response Fund Because Nothing is Protected Forever. The Rapid Response Fund is a critical resource for addressing emerging threats to our environment and public health that allows MCE to mobilize quickly and effectively. With your support, we can have an impact when and where it matters most. What Rapid Response looks like: Challenging…
Read MoreGrowing Food in the City of St. Louis Survey
Thank you to all who participated in the St. Louis Food Policy Coalition’s 2016 survey about growing food in the city! The survey is now closed. We were able to hear from 854 people from 75 of the city’s 79 neighborhoods! Through this survey effort, we sought to learn from city residents: 1) what they…
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The Gulf Dead Zone
2016 Dead Zone Measurement CANCELED Following a Prediction Almost 5,000 Square Miles Short of Goal Despite rampant nutrient pollution and toxic algae outbreaks, for the first time in 30 years, the Dead Zone will not be measured. Read MCE and the Mississippi River Collaborative’s report, Decades of Delay, to learn more about the extent of the nutrient…
Read MoreMy Experience on The Daily Show
By Brad Walker, Rivers Director June 30, 2016 Admit it, if you’ve ever seen it you’ve thought about being on The Daily Show. So have I. So on December 1, 2015, when I received an email from a person claiming to be from the show saying they wanted to do a field piece about questionable…
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Vegan: Everyday Stories Explores Diversity in Veganism
“You don’t have to be vegan to try vegan food,” says a customer at a vegan food truck says in the new film Vegan: Everyday Stories directed by Glenn Scott Lacey. This is just the jumping off point for the film which is divided into four segments that are interwoven – a vegan ultra-marathon runner, a cattle rancher’s wife who…
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