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The National Park Service celebrates its centennial this year! Here is another look at some interesting facts inside our National Parks.
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Image ImageLet’s GROW! Sights From New Exhibit At The Saint Louis Science Center
GROW, the newest exhibit at the Saint Louis Science Center. The exhibit opened June 18, 2016. Photos by Holly Shanks.
Here is a look at the sights you’ll find at GROW, the newest exhibit at theSaint Louis Science Center. The exhibit opened June 18, 2016.
Check back soon for Environmental Echo’s latest article that will have insights about the exhibit, what it took to bring the exhibit to life, and the collaboration between scientist and local farmers that brought accuracy and truth to the story of local agriculture.
See more photos from the GROW exhibit by visiting Environmental Echo’s new Facebook page HERE. Be sure to “like” our new Facebook page!
RIVERS ARE NOT OBEYING OUR RULES, MEEA POINTS OUT
Managing rivers with dams, levees and channelization has always been a bit of an exercise in futility. Just ask the residents of the abandoned floodplain site of the old Valmeyer, Illinois. The Mississippi River did the town dirty in 1993.
More recently, residents of Fenton got a bad taste of Meramec River water when flooding in December and January overwhelmed the MSD sewage treatment plants.
Environmental Echo (EE) is posting a link to the June issue of the Missouri Environmental Educators Association (MEEA) newsletter. It has some great information on the regional history of trying to manage rivers and a map rendering that should not be missed.
EE Editor Don Corrigan has been a member of MEEA for several years and is always in awe of Missouri teachers and their commitment to teaching environmental issues and sustainability to students in the state.
Environmental “Lunch and Learn” Sessions At Webster University
Learn about strategies and solutions being created and used right here in our local community to improve environmental, social and economic sustainability on Wednesdays from 12pm-1pm at Webster University. This series of special presentations are FREE and box lunches will be provided!
All sessions will be held in room 202 of the East Academic Building located at 545 Garden Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119. Please RSVP for each session to help provide accurate attendance numbers. Parking is available in Garden Park Plaza parking garage. The sessions run through August 10, 2016.
For more information, the speaker schedule, or to register for a session CLICK HERE.
Don’t Forget About The “Jens Jenson The Living Green” Screening June 18
A screening of the award-winning documentary “Jens Jensen The Living Green,” will be held at the Nine Network in the Public Media Commons on June 18.
The screening about the ground-breaking landscape designer Jens Jensen is in celebration of the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s 50th Anniversary. The event is FREE and open to the public.
Where: Nine Network in the Public Media Commons, at 3653 Olive Street in the Grand Center Arts District, St. Louis
When: 7:00 p.m., Saturday, June 18, 2016. RSVP Here for the free event.
Gov. Nixon announces Echo Bluff State Park to open July 30
A new state park is about to open. Echo Bluffs State Park, located in Eminence, Missouri, opens July 30. The Park will host a campground and lodging choices, which are now accepting reservations. Find more information from Gov. Nixon’s press release outlining the park’s features below.
Don’t Miss The 2016 Sustainable Backyard Tours This Sunday
Fred and Susan Burk of Kirkwood with some of the native plants they plan to give visitors at the June 12 Sustainable Backyard Tour. photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.
The 2016 Sustainable Backyard Tour is all set for 11 a.m., this Sunday, June 12. Find out what fun you can expect this year by reading this overview!
Meramec Caverns To Reopen Upper Level Of Caverns For Tours
The EPA announced that Meramec Caverns is approved to open tours in the upper level of the caverns as of June 10, 2016.
Find the EPA Region 7 announcement that includes a list of controls that have been implemented in the caverns HERE.
The show cave closed on March 10, 2016, because of unsafe levels of TCE fumes. TCE is an unsafe solvent used in manufacturing of metals, like vehicle parts. The contamination most likely originates from Sullivan, Mo, four miles away from a landfill and the former TRW/Ramsey facility, according to the EPA.
Learn more about the contamination from an earlier Environmental Echo podcast report that can be found below.
Don Corrigan Tackles The Rocky Mountains
Something about Don fits right in with the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the NPS.
Don Corrigan recently packed up and headed west! He has put pen to paper and chronicled his outdoor adventures in the Rockies.
The 2016 Sustainable Backyard Tour: More Than Veggies and Compost
Above: A scene from last year’s Backyard Sustainability Tour. Photo provided by Terry Winkelmann.
Ever drive by a neighbor’s yard or see a backyard garden in your local area that makes you think – “I wonder how much work it takes to maintain a backyard garden or I wonder what type of grass is in that yard because they only mow a couple times each summer?”
Well, here is your chance to find out the answer to those questions and much more during the 2016 Sustainable Backyard Tour coming up June 12.
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