The Homegrown Series

featuring

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Beyond the Blue Bin: March 11th, 4 pm

A discussion about hard-to-recycle but need to be properly disposed of materials and where to take them.

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Erica Williams from

Good Food Movement: Improving Our Food System from Within

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September: Growing Health in Your Backyard

5:30 pm Wednesday, 9/23 – Local Food Movement Panel

5:30 pm Thursday, 9/24 – Introduction to Community Herbalism

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“Backyard Garden 2012” by Lori L. Stalteri is licensed with CC BY 2.0.

Climate Change Speaker Series

Engaging environmental thought leaders will share insights and powerful action steps to move toward the future we want to see.

Zeke Hausfather, a leading climate scientist

David Lobbig, Curator, Mighty Mississippi Exhibit, Missouri History Museum
Myra Jackson, Convener of Global Freshwater Summit

Rev Lorren Buck, Ecowomanist and the Great Cosmic Mother

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Can Food Be Composted? & Other Tips on Composting

12/13/2022 Composting, Earth Day Festival, eat, Events, Green Your Home, Programs, Recycling on the Go, Tips, Too Good to Waste

One of the most asked questions we hear is, can I also compost the food? This is how disconnected our education is around living ecologically. Grow up on a farm and you understand that animals [...]

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Zeke Hausfather, Director of Climate and Energy at the Breakthrough Institute
Zeke is a climate scientist and energy systems analyst whose research focuses on observational temperature records, climate models, and mitigation technologies. He spent 10 years working as a data scientist and entrepreneur in the cleantech sector, where he was the lead data scientist at Essess, the chief scientist at C3.ai, and the cofounder and chief scientist of Efficiency 2.0. He also worked as a research scientist with Berkeley Earth, was the senior climate analyst at Project Drawdown, and the US analyst for Carbon Brief. He has masters degrees in environmental science from Yale University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in climate science from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Lobbig, Curator of Environmental Life
The natural environment’s deep underpinning of our community is David’s inspiration. He interprets this relationship through the Missouri Historical Society’s artifacts, building collections and exhibitions that communicate how historic and present-day decisions affect dynamic environmental change. His research examines the impact of resource exploitation on the biotic community, informing his mission to engage the public about equitable solutions for a sustainable society.

Myra Jackson, Global Lead for the 2021 Global Freshwaters Summit
Myra is a retired electrical engineer and organizational development professional who has designed and delivered seminar courses on business management, emotional intelligence, and heart coherence techniques at Harvard, Stanford, USC, UCSF, UCSD, Rockefeller University, and Duke University. In 2006, Myra shifted her focus to global policy on the climate crisis, and in 2015, she participated in the UN Open Working Group that determined the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Ms. Jackson currently serves on the United Nations Expert Platform on Harmony with Nature and is a delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She consults collaborative groups of governments, higher education, companies, utilities, and communities developing responses to sustain their rivers and regional environments. And enjoys growing into the title of Diplomat of the Biosphere.

Rev. Lorren Z. Buck, MDiv. is a theological companion and preacher whose activism reflects her bold sentiments that the Creator desires womxn to experience sexual pleasure and healing from the legacy of sexual violence and repressive religious pedagogy. This is a holy act of resistance. She leads and co-creates spiritual growth and discovery workshops intersecting spirituality, sexuality and gender. Her monthly womanist gathering Lewa Farabale, co-founded with Rev. Dr. Dietra Baker and Brittini Gray, centers liberation through the lens of biblical interpretation and black women’s cultural experiences. As a sacred sex coach, Lorren draws from her life’s experience and research to support women in embracing their bodies and encouraging exploration of sexuality towards a more transformed and transcendent life.

As a trainer and consultant with MQP International, Lorren coaches teams and individuals to heal the places within themselves so they can create greater change within their lives and community. Lorren has a background in church leadership, sexual health education and executive non-profit management. She has over 15 years of experience in group facilitation, social justice education and curriculum writing. Both Lorren’s profession and passions led her to consider the effects of gender oppression within faith communities on female sexuality. Lorren earned her master’s degree in Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary where she examined ways black women can reclaim their bodies as sacred and embody a liberated sexuality. Lorren is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and a native of St. Louis Missouri.

Engaging environmental thought leaders will share insights and powerful action steps to move toward the future we want to see.

Climate Change Speaker Series

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Marlow Baines, Youth Director, Earth Guardians
As a young person involved the youth climate movement, Marlow has grown up with a painful awareness of the worsening climate crisis. Her earliest experience of the impacts of climate change came during the "Thousand Year Floods” along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in 2013. Since that time ever increasing numbers of our human population have directly experienced super storms, flooding, wind events, drought, and most recently apocalyptic wildfires resulting in devastatingly poor air quality. As more and more people experience the effects of climate change through “natural disaster”, this direct experience serves to amplify the urgency of what youth activists have been striking about since 2018.

Humanity has two choices before us: utter overwhelm and the associated mental health crises that attend overwhelm - depression and debilitating anxiety - or stepping up, and leaning into, real action to address how we engage with and impact our environment and the planet. Marlow's experience as a youth leader is that our ability to take the first step, towards tangible and life giving solutions, is the most powerful. And that first step requires strong support - it requires community. Through the lens of a youth leader's perspective, Marlow will share how critically important it is to know yourself and connect meaningfully with your personal community. This makes all the difference if we are to tackle the climate crisis.

By using her personal experience, research, art, and understanding, Marlow will take you on a journey towards understanding yourself in intimate relationship with the earth, through the very experience of our bodies as matter (latin: mother; material; earth), literally one with the Earth. While this shift in perception is complex, the shift to a more just, sustainable, regenerative and equitable planet may be closer than we think.

Rev. Lorren Buck
Ecowomanist and the Great Cosmic Mother

Zeke Hausfather
What May Happen to the Climate This Century,
and What We Can Do About It

David Lobbig, and Myra Jackson
Our River Conversations: Honoring the Great Rivers

Marlow Baines
Community and the Climate Crisis - A Youth Leader’s Perspective

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MISSION: earthday365’s unique programs empower you and your community to create and celebrate a greener St. Louis – every day.

PROGRAMS: The St. Louis Earth Day Festival is just one of several programs that our organization manages throughout the year. Read more about the exciting work we do to make Earth Day every day.

Recycling On the Go

What started as the region’s first large-scale event recycling program has grown into a popular and widely-utilized event-greening service offering comprehensive consultancy and implementation services. Our goal is to reduce the negative environmental impact of events and festivals, principally by reducing and recycling a portion of the waste they generate.

Green Dining Alliance

This program is committed to working with St. Louis restaurants to reduce their environmental impact. The GDA considers all areas of operations and puts strong emphasis on reducing, recycling and composting restaurant waste as well as sourcing sustainable food, to-go ware and cleaning supplies. www.greendiningalliance.org

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The Homegrown Series

featuring

Click on event below to watch the recorded episode.

Scroll down for previous programs and click to see recordings.

Beyond the Blue Bin: March 11th, 4 pm

A discussion about hard-to-recycle but need to be properly disposed of materials and where to take them.

Click on event below to register!

Scroll down for previous programs and click to see recordings.

Erica Williams from

Good Food Movement: Improving Our Food System from Within

Click below to view recordings.

September: Growing Health in Your Backyard

5:30 pm Wednesday, 9/23 – Local Food Movement Panel

5:30 pm Thursday, 9/24 – Introduction to Community Herbalism

Click on event below to register!

Scroll down for previous programs and click to see recordings.

Climate Change Speaker Series

Link to register Coming Soon!

See below for previous Virtual Program recordings.

Can Food Be Composted? & Other Tips on Composting

Homegrown Series

Eco-Media Club

Beyond the Blue Bin

Welcome from the Executive Director

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Earth Month Keynote Speaker

Saturday, April 18

Sunday, April 19

Monday, April 20

Tuesday, April 21

Earth Day - Wednesday, April 22

Thursday, April 23

Friday, April 24

Saturday, April 25

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