Eco Expo St. Louis 2010


Looking For a Green Solution to an Old Age Practice

Shur-Way Auto Body

Several years ago, Mike Swederska was looking for an alternative to traditional solvent-based paints to use in his auto body shop in Maplewood. He was going through a rebuilding of the shop building and its work processes. He used as much recycled materials as possible in the construction such as recycled brick, cinder block and even used crushed concrete for fill.

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EcoLifeSTL Photos

Check out photos from this event. (Click on any pic to view all photos) Parkway North High School - Green School March 03.03.10

GCS Get Mo' Green Teen Club College Scholarship

GCS Federal Credit Union

If you're a high school senior AND a member of the GCS Get Mo' Green teen club, you are elegible to apply for the Nicole R. Thorp $1000 Scholarship! Visit the GCS website to download the scholarship application, which is being accepted through April 30th. Scholarship money will be presented in May and the recipient will be featured on mygcscu.com.

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Ask Green Jean

How do rain barrels work, and where can I get one? I’d like to make use of rainwater in my garden this spring.

Patty Mae – Affton

Green Jean PonziDear Ms. Mae:

This is the perfect time to set up a rainwater harvesting system. Spring rains will be falling soon and the Metropolitan Sewer District is about to launch a second annual sale of rain barrels for MSD customers...

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Latest EcoLifeSTL Blog

Top 5 Tweets
Posted 3/11/2010 7:00:00 AM

It’s that time again. I picked my top five tweets of the week. (These are in no particular order)

1.) @ecorazzi ‘Yay or Nay? Wearable Technology Generate Your Own Electricity With the Dandelion Wearable Windmill http://tinyurl.com/y9lctlw ^md”

I saw this tweet and don’t quite know what I think of it, but it does seem very interesting. It also makes me think about how our fashion will completely change over the years if people and the big name clothing companies start going eco-glamour. Mmm just a thought.

2.) @marvinsorganics “Good article from @enviromom "How I weaned my kids (and myself) off of boxed mac & cheese" - http://bit.ly/9R9KQO”

I really enjoyed reading this article even though I do not have children myself. If made me think of all the processed food I ate just at lunch. Maybe I should try to follow in my Mom’s footsteps and eat less processed foods. ...
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More EcoLifeSTL Features

Looking for All Shoes for New Recycling Program

Mers Goodwill

“Share-A-Pair” is a new initiative launched by MERS-Goodwill and GO! St. Louis where they ask local residents to donate gently-worn shoes so they can reach their goal of collecting 20,010 pairs in 2010!!

A specially-designed Shoe-Mobile receptacle, which is approximately 6’x 9’ and completely portable will be on display at area companies and select locations throughout the region through December 2010.

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