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Growing Craft Brewing Industry Keeps Eye On Sustainability

Schlafly Bottleworks Tasting Room. After a tour of the brewery Aaron Moore (Left), Jennifer Moore (Middle), and tour guide Sarah Rybicki (Right), taste a variety of beer brewed at Schlafly. Photo by Holly Shanks.

Schlafly Bottleworks Tasting Room. After a tour of the brewery, Aaron Moore (Left), Jennifer Moore (Middle), and tour guide Sarah Rybicki (Right), taste a variety of beer brewed at Schlafly. All photos by Holly Shanks unless noted.

By Holly Shanks

With a strong sense of community, a decades-long tradition of collaboration, and with the belief that beer is communal, the thriving craft brewery industry is moving toward a sustainable future. The small breweries also recognize the need to protect environmental resources.

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Larry Lazar’s Local Flooding Account Featured In ScienceBlogs

A completely submerged Marshall Road in front of Kirkwood Bluffs apartments in Kirkwood will only get worse as the Meramec River continues to rise. photo by Ursula Ruhl, South County Times.

Marshall Road in Kirkwood. Photo by Ursula Ruhl, South County Times.

Mom says, “Don’t talk about politics with the relatives, just talk about the weather.” But now even the weather is political, especially after the Great Flood of 2015 in the St. Louis region.

 

 

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Retired Petroleum Investment Expert Pens Daily Climate Newsletter

Photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.

Photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.

Carl Campbell, retired petroleum investment advisor, spends every morning searching for climate and environmental information.  By early afternoon, he releases an analysis on his most important finds in a daily newsletter called “Carl’s Climate Letters.”

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Happy New Year!

new-years-eve-1062373_1920Happy New Year from Environmental Echo! 

Wishing everyone a year filled with peace, health, family, friends, and outdoor adventures!

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Missouri Prairie Foundation Announces 18 awardees For 2015

Photo by Holly Shanks

Photo by Holly Shanks

The Missouri Prairie Foundation and its Grow Native! program recognizes “outstanding efforts to conserve prairie and to use and promote native plants” by awarding efforts by individuals around the state. This year, there were 18 awardees.

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Missouri Department of Conservation Successes From 2015

christmas-background-1075344_1920PixabayThe Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently released a video of accomplishments and successes from 2015.

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NEW YEAR’S DYNAMIC DUO GO GREEN IN 2016

newyearBy Don Corrigan

The Baby New Year and old Father Time were walking up North Grand Avenue right before New Year’s Eve. I caught up with them as they were checking things out by the Fox Theatre, across the street by Best Steak House.

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A Thousand Miles For Climate Change

Photo from the back cover of Henry's book "David and the Giant Mailbox."

Photo from the back cover of Henry’s new book “David and the Giant Mailbox.”

David Henry walked 1,000 miles to talk with strangers about climate change. He braved rainy weather conditions, difficult roadways, and dodged texting drivers.

Henry talks with Don Corrigan about his journey across part of the U.S. on this edition of “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”

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EXCLUSIVE: SANTA CLAUS BLASTS GLOBAL WARMING

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By Don Corrigan

Just days before Santa Claus launches his sleigh for the 2015 worldwide, whirlwind Christmas gift tour, the less-than jolly fat man blasted man-made global warming. He said climate change threatens the future of his work at the holidays and he predicted that Christmas as we know it could end before 2020.

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Inside The Historic U.N. Climate Conference In Paris

Dawn Reeves covering the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Photo provided by Dawn Reeves.

Dawn Reeves covering the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Photo provided by Dawn Reeves.

Environmental Reporter Dawn Reeves, based in Washington D.C. with the Inside EPA subscriber news service, reports back from the Paris Climate Change Summit.  Reeves shares insights from the conference and explains  elements of the agreement reached by countries attending the conference with Don Corrigan on this week’s edition of  “Behind the Editor’s Curtain.”

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