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One example, public K-12 districts nationwide spend about $8 billion a year on energy bills. With a majority of us spending around 90% of our time indoors, buildings not only impact our planet, contributing to green house gas emissions (climate change) from their energy use, but buildings impact our health and well-being too.

Operations and maintenance of buildings can help improve energy efficiency to reduce a building's energy burden plus improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and protect public health!

The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge is call to action for building owners, operators, schools, higher education, and organizations and companies of all kinds to adopt key strategies to improve indoor air quality in their buildings.

Building Energy Exchange St. Louis (Be-Ex STL) is the technical, financial and business development resource to help buildings over 50,000 sq. ft. get to net-zero, and achieve compliance with BEPS - improving building health, saving money, and positioning St. Louis as a resilient and carbon neutral region.

said Cara Spencer, BE-Ex STL Director on St. Louis on the Air, a few days before launching Building Energy Exchange St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum on March 23, 2022.

Pictured left to right: Kevin Bryant, Cara Spencer, Ashok Gupta, & Angela Moore. Photo by: Justin Idleburg

All municipal, institutional, commercial and multifamily buildings equal to or greater than 50,000 square feet will be required to report benchmarking data to the City of St. Louis on a yearly basis.

Properties must meet the weather-normalized site EUI standard set for their property type by May 4, 2025 (for 2024 calendar year benchmarking data). Qualified affordable housing buildings and houses of worship will have six years to meet the standard (May 4, 2027).

Earth Day is just around the corner! Join the celebration April 23 & 24 in Forest Park, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm both days.

The St. Louis Earth Day Festival is a community tradition to learn about sustainable products and services offered by local businesses and organizations, meet local area non-profits that share Earth Day values and showcase local entertainment and Green Dining Alliance restaurants.

USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter will be there talking Green Schools, joined by Ladue High Schools students giving away tree seedlings. Come see us in the Youth Corner Saturday, April 23 or Sunday, April 24!

earthday365 will present their inaugural year of Sustainability Awards recognizing local leadership on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm at the main festival stage on Muny Grounds in Forest Park.

TODAY, Thursday, April 7, 2022 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm CT Abigail Aderonmu is available for "virtual office hours" to answer any of your questions about the Midwest Climate Collaborative and it's Midwest-wide Climate Research Agenda!

The Midwest Climate Research Agenda aims to identify key climate research questions for the region that would substantially advance our understanding of climate impacts and solutions across diverse sectors and populations in the U.S. Midwest.

What questions, if answered, will help you do the climate action work you need to do?

Crestwood Elementary, in the Lindbergh School District is a proud Green Schools Quest participant.

For the past three years the Planet Protector Squad has been developing from a small group of 5th graders passionate about saving our oceans from plastic to 32 students from second through fifth grade learning and campaigning to live more sustainable lives; discussing linear, recycling, and circular economies; how to be a global citizen, and environmental social justice.

If you would like to become a Green Schools Quest School for the 2022-2023 school year or aid a school and it's community on it's quest as a Green Mentor visit www.greenschoolsquest.org.

Discover and celebrate all our green schools April 28, 2022 @ 4:30 - 5:30 pm, virtually at this year's 15th Annual Green Schools Event!

Tell us what you think about this month's USGBC-MGC article written by Karen Luning, Reading Specialist, Crestwood Elementary: Green Wave of Change.

Ready to renew your USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter membership? Check your membership status.

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