6/6/17 UPDATE: On Friday, December 23, we received notice that the City of Chesterfield applied to overdevelop even more of the floodplain they should have never paved in the first place. The timeline for comments was excessively short given the holiday. On June 6, 2017, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the City of Chesterfield…
Read MoreThe WCI doth protest too much…. methinks
By Brad Walker, Rivers Director February 1, 2016 PDF Version In late December 2015 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an op-ed by the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) and Sierra Club regarding the America’s Watershed Initiative’s (AWI) Mississippi River Basin Report Card and a response from the CEO/President of the Waterways Council Inc. (WCI)…
Read MoreGMO OMG: A Parent’s Perspective on Eating
by Caitlin Zera February 1, 2016 GMO OMG is a parent’s perspective on eating, ethically and healthily, that dives into the…
Read MoreDéjà Crue, all over again
By Brad Walker, Rivers Director January 27, 2016 Here we go again; another flood and lots of earnest questions about why it happened, who’s to blame, how we can fix it, etc., etc., etc. All one has to do is read old studies, not just ones you can find on the internet, but hard copy…
Read MoreAspects of Our Food System That Keep Me up at Night
This piece comes from a recent application to attend the University of Vermont’s Leadership for Sustainable Food Systems Professional Certificate. I enjoyed the prompt, as it helped to reflect on the issues I am most passionate about in our food system and how I can best contribute to the cause. What Aspects of Our Food System…
Read MorePlastic Paradise: A Film That Shows Us What It Looks Like to Pave Paradise with Plastic
by Caitlin Zera January 26, 2016 In a report released last week, the Ellen MacArthur…
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