Eco Avenue

Eco Avenue booths will be filled with information to empower you to make lifestyle changes that reduce your environmental impact. Find sustainable living tips and ideas for every aspect of your life.

Eco Avenue Booths

Baby Steps Eco Friendly Baby Products – This local business offers education and products explaining the benefit of organic products and anti-plastic products for baby care. E-mail Katherine at babystepscolumbia@gmail.com

Blue Planet Natural Foods Buying Club – Learn how you can gain access to high quality natural and organic foods at a lower cost by pre-ordering through this local non-profit buying club.  Volunteering is not required, but those who do, save even more. You can contact Blue Planet through the Peace Nook 573-875-0539.  

Boone’s Lick Chapter of Missouri Master Naturalists – This Department of Conservation program focuses on natural history and/or water quality, illustrating the impact that we as humans can have on the natural eco-system. 

Central Missouri Community Action – This organization has a long history of helping low and moderate-income persons.  Their conservation and weatherization programs will be featured.  

City of Columbia Public Works Volunteer Program – Part of the Public Works Department of the City of Columbia, this office focuses on waste reduction, reuse and recycling education. Check out their informational brochures and volunteer opportunities. 

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture This local non-profit organization seeks to promote and work towards a functional sustainable local food system in the city of Columbia, They will have displays concentrating on urban agriculture, home gardening, backyard chickens and composting.  You can also learn about workshops and other opportunities they offer at their urban farm location. 

Columbia Friends Meeting – Quakers have a long tradition of simple living for sustainability. Locally they focus on recycling, organic gardening, and other means of sustainability that everyone can practice to help reduce waste, reuse and recycle anything that can be recycled.  

Columbia Water and Light – This City of Columbia department’s booth will be focused on solar power. They will have exhibits of solar water heaters and P.V. panels.

Dogwood Solar – Local business who believes in making a commitment to help protect our environment and increase our financial legacy in the name of the present and the future by educating and helping the public in ways to reduce dependence on carbon-based fuels when possible. Come by and see their display on Solar Water Heating.

Energy Link – Past  winner in the 2011 Earth Day Environmental Education Contest. They will be demonstrating their energy audit equipment, and they will have a computer presentation on common home improvements to help reduce your home’s energy consumption. 

ESP of MO – This small business is also a past winner in the Environmental Education Contest. This booth will focus on vermicomposting and raising chemical-free plants. They will have a working worm bin and soil mix demonstration. 

Human Environmental Sciences Extension – Department of Architectural Studies at the University of Missouri, specializing in Environmental Design, Housing, Healthy Indoor air, and Community Revitalization & Sustainability.  

League of Women Voters, Energy Matters Committee – This group is an important subcommittee of the League of Women Voters. They can provide you with sources for alternative energy and programs that help support green energy use as well as renewable energy for Columbia’s electricity.   

Maya Creek - a homestead located outside of Fulton, MO. Their goal is to create an ecologically sustainable self-sufficient lifestyle that not only meets their physical needs but is psychologically fulfilling and demonstrates a simpler way of life compared to mainstream consumer culture 

Missouri River Communities Network – This non-profit organization’s mission is to preserve the natural and cultural resources of the Missouri River. Their booth focuses on helping homeowners minimize the impact that they have on our streams by encouraging rain gardens, rain barrels, safe disposal of wastes and water quality monitoring. They will have a rain barrel display along with flyers and pamphlets.

MU Sustainability Office — This office coordinates sustainability efforts all over the Mizzou Campus.  They will offer general info sheets on topics such as recycling, bicycle repair and resource costs.  While you are there test your knowledge of storm water with their short quiz.  

Osage Group/Sierra Club – The Osage Group is Columbia’s most vocal and effective defender of Mid Missouri’s environment. The group boasts a large membership of nearly nine hundred activists and welcomes new members of all ages. Outings are also a large part of Osage Group membership. There are nearly 40 local outings planned annually. These outings take members into local conservation and wilderness areas to hike, canoe, and bicycle, in addition to purely social gatherings. For more information or to join, see their website. 

Peaceworks’ Center for Sustainable Living – Peaceworks’ Center for Sustainable Living has worked since 1993 to promote lifestyles that foster simple living and a more sustainable future. Their scope includes everything from energy use to food and water, transportation to consumerism and voluntary simplicity. CSL volunteers touch the lives of hundreds of Mid-Missourians through our classes, programs and their annual Sustainable Living Fair. CSL is seeking more volunteers in order to reach more of our neighbors.

PedNet Coalition – A local non-profit organization whose goal is to encourage active travel such as walking, bicycling, and rolling a wheelchair, and to promote the creation of a safe and attractive network of paths, trails and multi-modal streets that provides health, environmental, quality-of-life, and economic benefits to the community.  

Show Me Solar  – This booth is focused on solar living. They will have displays, impromptu lessons and literature to take home. They will be selling raffle tickets, books, solar phones and laptop cases, and will have free literature as well. 

Sustain Mizzou – Non-profit student group which promotes sustainability to the UMC campus and students living in the community. They will focus on transportation issues with an interactive way for you to find more sustainable transportation by locating your own address and reviewing the possibilities available.