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Super-efficient new lighting sets the EarthWays Home and its garden aglow. Supported by generous grants from the Gateway Foundation of Greater St. Louis and the Boeing Employees Community Foundation, the entire outdoor installation uses only 1,183 watts of power. Photo: Dale Dufer
EarthWays Center 2006 – Promoting Sustainable Energy & Resource Use
This year has brought staff changes and a closer alignment with the Education Division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Program-wise we continue to provide homeowners with information on how to keep energy costs low, comfort levels high and resource use in line with future needs. We’re working with k-12 and university students to advance recycling education and energy education, especially as it relates to solar energy. And our work with the St. Louis Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council continues to grow as we now have a dedicated staff position to coordinate these essential and effective efforts.
New signage will be incorporated into the EarthWays Home this year along with a House of Pressure – an excellent tool to understand how a house operates as a system. These items compliment the new additions from last year – a wind turbine, tankless water heater, recycled product cabinets, new compost bin, efficient exit lights and new air quality curriculum.
Come visit EarthWays - the place to have the conversation about sustainable energy and resource use!
Check this calendar listing often – new events will be added.
Jan 21-22, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
Feb 18-19, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
March 9, Thurs, 7-9pm Let Worms Eat Your Garbage!
Missouri Botanical Garden Adult Class – Held at EarthWays Center
Transform kitchen and garden scraps into super-charged organic fertilizer in a quiet, convenient worm bin. Learn the low-maintenance basics of indoor vermicomposting (suitable for home, business or classroom) and worm bin biology. Registration fee of $42 ($38 for Missouri Botanical Garden members) includes information packet, materials for in-class bin construction and worms. You'll leave ready to add organic material scraps and decompose! Register at 314-577-0220. Instructor: Jean Ponzi, EarthWays Center staff.
March 16-19, Thurs-Sun St. Louis 29th Annual Builders Home & Garden Show
America’s Center & Edward Jones Dome. We’ll have information on Home Performance with ENERGY STAR and the House of Pressure display as part of the Gateway Healthy House exhibit in Booth 3417 for all four days of the show. See you there! For more information on the Show visit http://www.stlhomeshow.com/
March 18-19, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
April 15-16, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour
April 23, Sun, 10:30am-6pm St. Louis Earth Day Festival
Muny Grounds in Forest Park. We’ll have a booth at the Festival – come visit us there! Get more information on the Festival at www.stlouisearthday.org.
May 20-21, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
June 17-18, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
June 26-30, Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm Camp EarthWays – Young Green Builders: Designing Your Green Home! For children entering grades 6-8. Is your child interested in finding ways to use fewer natural resources? Then let them explore how to sustainably design and construct a home according to green building guidelines. They’ll design their model home, interact with professionals, visit field sites, and then present and display their model home in the EarthWays Center. Limited to 15 students. Camp fee of $175 per child ($150 for Garden members) includes healthy snacks. To register, call 314-577-0220. Interested in other summer camps at Missouri Botanical Garden, visit: www.mobot.org/education/summerprograms06/campmbg.html
July 15-16, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
July 24-28, Mon-Fri LEAP Teacher Workshop
This year is the first time we’re incorporating a week long summer workshop (including incredible field trips to solid waste reduction and recycling sites) into our popular 5th -12th grade recycling education program. Teachers: If you’d like help establishing or improving your school’s recycling program, and your school is in St. Louis City or St. Louis, St. Charles or Jefferson counties, then this program is for you! You receive stipends, minigrants, bus transportation, in classroom programs, and support for a recycling project. And everyone benefits from the efforts of your students. Interested? Call Jean NOW at 314-577-0246.
Aug 19-20, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
Sept 16-17, Sat/Sun, 10:00am-4:00pm EarthWays Energy & Recycling Festival This fifth annual festival will again include recycling exhibits with our popular fall-fest energy focus. House and grounds will be filled with demonstrations, exhibits, information, activities, presentations and displays to help all ages learn to reduce waste, save money and live more sustainably at home. We hope to have compact fluorescent light bulbs for sale again for less than $1.00! And we’ll bring back the popular Solar Car Raycing event for kids! 10am to 4pm each day. Free, no reservations required. Click here for useful resources from last year's festival!
Oct 21-22, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
Nov 18-19, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
Dec 16-17, Sat/Sun EarthWays Home Public Tour Days
Other Related Events
Monthly meetings of the St. Louis Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council – All are welcome, there are members and nonmember rates to attend. For meeting topics see http://www.usgbc.org/chapters/stlouis/programs_&_events.asp
Feb 23-28, Thurs-Tues Interface 2006 Conference – Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s annual math and science conference for educators – we’ll be there presenting sessions on Using Real-World Data through the Missouri Schools Going Solar program! For more information visit http://muconf.missouri.edu/interface/index.html
March 29, Wed Advancing Renewables in the Midwest – University of Missouri-Columbia http://weather.missouri.edu/webs
March 30, Thurs Net Metering and Utility Interconnection. Sponsored by Boone Electric, Columbia Water and Light and Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Columbia, MO. To register pat.justis@dnr.mo.gov
April 1-2, Sat-Sun Missouri Botanical Garden’s Children Garden Sneak Peek Weekends – on main grounds of MBG, weekends in April, open full time May 1 http://www.mobot.org/chdpage/chdgarden.html
April 20, Thurs St. Louis Earth Day Symposium: Re-Inventing Approaches to Development: High Performance & Low-Impact Development. Held at Missouri Botanical Garden, Ridgway Center, 8:30am – 5:30pm. Keynote Address: Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior. For information and registration go to www.stlouisearthday.org
April 21, Fri Fueling a Cleaner Environment – Energy Management Principles in “Green Building” Design. An Energy Action Workshop sponsored by Laclede Gas Company. St. Charles Conference and Convention Center. For info tschultz@lacledegas.com
April 30, Sun glass in the garden: Chihuly at the Missouri Botanical Garden – special exhibit opens http://www.mobot.org/events/Chihuly/chihuly.asp
May 4-6, Thurs-Sat Environmental Education Association of Illinois Annual Conference -Pere Marquette State Park Lodge, Grafton, IL http://www.eeai.net/
May 17-19, Wed-Sun Greening the Heartland 2006: Advancing Sustainable Practices Conference-Kansas City, MO www.greeningtheheartland.org
June 5-7, Mon-Wed Missouri Recycling Association Annual Conference - St. Charles, MO http://www.mora.org/
June 19-23, Mon-Fri Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions: An Inquiry Approach to Environmental Literacy – MO Department of Natural Resources Workshop at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center in St. Louis, MO. Course info at http://www.dnr.mo.gov/services/edcourse.pdf
July 29-30, Sat-Sun Ozark Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Expo 2006 – Hermann, MO http://ozarkre.org/
Oct 10-14, Tues-Sat North American Association for Environmental Education 35th Annual Conference – St. Paul, MN www.naaee.org
Nov 3-5, Fri-Sun 10th Annual Conference on Environmental Education in Missouri – the EE Campus sponsored by Missouri Environmental Education Association. http://www.meea.org
EarthWays Home Public Tours
3rd Saturday & Sunday each month at
11 am • Noon • 1 pm • 2 pm; Admission: $2 per person, Missouri Botanical Garden
Members and Children
Age 12 & Under Free
No reservations or purchase of tickets in advance are needed for public tour weekends. Note: EarthWays Center is in Grand Center, not on the main grounds of Missouri Botanical Garden.
Group Tours by Appointment
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