Growing Green Awards

Honoring People + Organizations Transforming the Built Environment

The USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter is proud to celebrate and recognize the individuals, groups and organizations actively transforming the built environment while sharing their knowledge of green building and sustainable practices.

Tickets now on sale for the 2012 Annual Growing Green Awards Celebration on March 29 at 5:30 pm at the new Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 36 Headquarters!

PURCHASE TICKETS by visiting our Events Registration page. Scroll down and click on the “Register” button under the 2012 Growing Green Awards Celebration event listing.

Tickets are $75 per person ($85 after March 21) and include cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, three course meal and complimentary parking.

Congratulations to the 2012 Nominees

Community Champion: Great Rivers Greenway District * Joe Edwards – Moonrise Hotel * Traci Sooter, AIA – Drury University * StraightUp Solar * Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
Innovation: AEP River Operations * Cannon Design * Eddie’s Bar & Grill * Perennial
Education: Russell Barton – Parkway North High School * Butterfly Energy Works, LLC * Catalina Freixas – Washington University in St. Louis * Jennifer Loui – Green Education Foundation * Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
Restoration: Cannon Design * Green Street Development Group, LLC * Spinnaker St. Louis * Tiger Lily Development, LLC * XIOLINK
Emerging Leader: Citi * St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Operational Excellence: Joseph Abernathy – St. Louis Cardinals * Barnes-Jewish Hospital * Cannon Design * Graybar * Novus International, Inc. * Tarlton

Congratulations to 2011 Winners:

Innovator: HOK
Residential: Trumpet Builders, LLC
Government: City of St. Louis
Educator: St. Louis Community College
Non-Profit: FOCUS St. Louis
Corporate: St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association
Cultivating Ten Years of Green Building: Missouri Botanical Garden

Learn more about the winners and their accomplishments.

See a full list of 2011 Growing Green Award Nominees.

See keynote presentation by Leith Sharp, Executive Director of the Illinois Green Economy Network.

View a winning nomination from 2009.

And the Winners Were…

Congratulations to our 2010 Winners

Innovator – Home Green Home
Home Builder – Laclede Gas Company
Government – St. Louis County
Educator – Washington University in St. Louis
Quietly Green – Punit Jain, Cannon Design
Non-Profit – Renew Missouri, a project of Missouri Coalition for the Environment
Corporate – Clayco

Learn more about 2010 winners and their accomplishments

Congratulations to the 2009 inaugural Growing Green Award winners

Innovator - William A. Kerr Foundation
Residential - Habitat for Humanity St. Louis
Government Special Mention - U.S. Congressman Russ Carnahan
Government Winner - City of Clayton
Quietly Green - (two winners!) Richard Reilly, Boa Construction, and  David Bertorelli
Education - Parkway School District
Commercial - LoftWorks, LLC