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.
Congratulations to the 2013 Awardees!
- Emerging Leader: Courtney Howard – Cannon Design
- Education: Southwestern Illinois College
- Operational Excellence: Parkway School District
- Restoration: Patty Maher – Tiger Lily Development
- Innovation: SWT Design
with an Honorable Mention to Cannon Design - Community Champion: Old North St. Louis Restoration Group
Learn more about the 2013 Awardees and their accomplishments!
Download a list of 2013 nominees.
Or check out their stories by reading the Executive Summaries provided in the nominations.
2013 Award winners pictured above from left to right: Sean Thomas, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group; Michael Smith, Southwestern Illinois College; Erik Lueders, Parkway School District; Hunter Beckham, SWT Design; Patty Maher, Tiger Lily Development; Tino Ochoa, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group; Jim Wolterman, SWT Design; Brock Piglia, SWT Design and Ted Spaid, SWT Design. Congrats!
Congratulations to 2012 Winners!
- Emerging Leader: Citi
- Education: Russell Barton – Parkway North High School
- Restoration: Cannon Design
- Innovation: AEP River Operations
- Operational Excellence: Tarlton
- Community Champion: Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
Learn more about the winners and their accomplishments. Or see photos from the March 29 Celebration.
See a full list of 2012 Growing Green Award Nominees.
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.
Congratulations to 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
