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Member Spotlight – Benjamin Winkler
Benjamin Winkler, Environmental Representative - Waste Diversion, St. Louis Department of Public Health, Missouri Gateway Green Building Council Member since February 2023, Green School Quest Mentor since 2020 Description of your work in green building: I work for St....
In the spotlight.
Check out our new Members Making an Impact page!
We love to celebrate our amazing members and the impact they are making every day on people, places and planet. That’s why we’ve created a place to celebrate their green building successes. Check out the new page and join us in celebrating these achievements!
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Building a greener future.
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Green Schools
25% of Americans attend school each day as students, faculty and staff (that’s 1.2 million Missourians!) Our green schools programs provide resources that empower schools and students to make choices that support healthy and efficient school buildings, while fostering student and staff health and wellbeing and inspire real-world learning, civic engagement, and the adoption of behaviors benefiting communities and the environment.
Green Building Education
The exchange of information is a stalwart of our activities. Whether learning about action to reduce our buildings’ carbon footprints, LEED, WELL, Living Buildings or Passive Homes or discussing equity in the built environment - we have green building education on tap for you.
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Emerging Professionals
We welcome students, young professionals and individuals new to the green building field into our green building community through happy hours, community services events and networking opportunities. These Green Building Leaders of the Future gather monthly to network, share experiences and give back to the community.
Outreach & Advocacy
We are a recognized and trusted business voice for sustainability in our region. We advocate for policies that help overcome barriers related to green building implementation. Our advocacy efforts have resulted in systemic, sustainable change in promoting green building.
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Building Energy Exchange St. Louis
This new initiative is here to help make energy efficiency a reality in our built environment, helping building owners and managers increase energy efficiency and improve overall performance of our buildings.
It’s cool being green.
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250 active members
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77 schools currently enrolled in Green Schools programs
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2500 volunteer hours logged in 2022
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985 attendees at 2022 events
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Be part of our community.
Members are central to helping us achieve our goal of making every building a green and healthy building. We are fully committed to sustainability and equity in the built environment, actively working for an environmentally just future – and we need your help to get there. All are welcome to be part of this important work.
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