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
Alternative Real Estate – Builder of passive and active solar/zero energy homes. This booth will have displays of structured insulated panels and insulating concrete forms.
573-280-9905
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.
http://extension.missouri.edu/masternaturalist/columbia/index.html
City of Columbia Public Works Volunteer Program – Part of the Public Works Department of the City of Columbia, this group focuses on waste reduction, reuse and recycling education. Check out their recycling games and informational brochures.
www.gocolumbiamo.com/PublicWorks
Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture – This is a local non-profit organization that focuses on community development and education. They will have displays concentrating on urban agriculture, home gardening, backyard chickens and composting.
www.columbiaurbanag.org
Columbia Friends Meeting – A non-profit local religious organization focused 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.
www.gocolumbiamo.com/WaterandLight
Diaper Parties by Laura - This booth will demonstrate how to keep tons of waste out of the landfills by using reusable products in the form of cloth diapers. Laura will have dozens of sample diapers on hand to explore and to order, as well as other diaper accessories.
www.diaperparties.com/laurah
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.
www.dogwoodsolar.com
Eco Avenue Schoolhouse – Back again this year to provide a shaded place to sit down and learn about various sustainability topics, and to meet the folks working on Eco Avenue. There will be short presentations, 10-12 minutes each, by the local volunteers who have booths on Eco Avenue, where you can obtain more in depth information.
Energy Link –2010 winner in the 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.
www.goenergylink.com
ESP of MO – 2010 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.
http://home.earthlink.net/~espofmo/
Hindu Temple & Community Center - A community center for the purpose of conducting Hindu religious, social, educational, cultural, literary, and performing arts activities. The Center instructs its youth and other members in the sustainability practices of everyday life, such as recycling, using biodegradable items, energy saving lighting, and various aspects of sustainable living. MORE INFO AT
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.
http://extension.missouri.edu/hes/copyright.htm
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.
http://lwv.columbia.missorui.org
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.
MEEA (Missouri Environmental Education Association) – A not-for profit membership-based professional organization that serves environmental educators. We are teachers, students, youth group leaders, volunteers, interpreters and others engaged in environmental education, representing citizens interested in understanding the connections between built and natural environments, the economy and society.
http://meea.org/
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.
www.moriver.org
My Green Cities – A social movement that helps to design programs that combine sustainability, buying locally, social awareness issues and community building. Their goal is to help you choose your world wisely, by matching consumers and independent businesses on issues of sustainability and social awareness, providing resources for a more conscientious lifestyle, partnering with community groups, and giving small business owners effective tools to communicate their good business practices to the community.
www.mygreencities.com
O2 Geothermal – This booth is devoted to the use of renewable energy by way of ground source heat pumps as an alternative to conventional heating and cooling. They will have pictures and samples on display along with handouts about wildflowers.
www.o2geo.com
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 the website at http://missouri.sierra.org/osage
Ozark Avalon Church of Nature – A non-profit religious organization whose mission is to provide access to nature, a safe place for outdoor worship in an earth-centered, earth honoring spiritual context, to promote community among persons with these beliefs and practices, and to further environmentalism and appreciation for nature spirits and the earth. We maintain a 170 acre land preserve and community near Columbia. Our booth this year will focus on our upcoming project for a Community Garden organized by a member of the Ozark Avalon community.
www.ozarkavalon.net
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. Our 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 our annual Sustainable Living Fair (www.slfcolumbia.org). CSL is seeking more volunteers in order to reach more of our neighbors.
http://blog.midmopeaceworks.org/p/center-for-sustainable-living.html
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.
www.pednet.org
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.
www.showmesolar.org
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.
http://sustainmizzou.students.missouri.edu
