Recent posts
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Business
FTC's New 'Green Guides' Should Clarify Environmental Claims
The Federal Trade Commission’s new ‘green guides’ for advertising and marketing may make it even harder to be green. That should be good for consumers, who may have been misled by br...
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Environment
Creve Coeur Three Quarters Of The Way To Meeting Green Power Challenge
Wow…the summer was a busy time for the Green Power Challenge (GPC) team and we have some exciting news!! Thanks to great community support, we are now at 82% of our goal of receiving nati...
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Environment
Scouts And Students Make A Difference At Creve Coeur's Tappmeyer Homestead
Both of my children participated in Scouts. I was a leader of the Brownie and Girl Scout troops for my daughter and a volunteer when my son was in Cub Scouts. I think these years are s...
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Environment
Field Trip- It's off to Fahr's for Fall Color!
The plants in my window boxes worked hard (tolerating one of the hottest summers on record) from April until the end of September. They’re tired, leggy and ready for the yard waste conta...
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Weather
Do You "Believe" in Climate Change? What Will it Take?
As we suffer through yet another sweltering 100 plus degree day while horrendous fires destroy our forests in the west, ceaseless drought sucks the life out of our crops in the Great Plai...
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Environment
Fairy Tail Ending to the Story of Sir Limps A Lot
Yesterday was the happy day that Sir Limps A Lot, the injured Canada goose from Creve Couer, surely must have been waiting for since May 10th. If you have been following this goose, he i...
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Environment
Green Guilt
Eco Audrey gets a lot of questions about "How can I recycle X?" Where X is not your typical glass, plastic, paper, aluminum, etc. that can easily be recycled curbside. A lot of people out...
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Environment
Sir Limps A Lot Caught, Safe in the Sanctuary!
I am so thrilled to be able to post this. I know many of you have been following Sir Limps A Lot, the wild Canada goose who has been hurt in an office park on Olive and 270. There is...