Energy Technology

EPA to Recognize St. Louis Cardinals for Reducing Food Waste

Don't feel too guilty about not finishing your nachos at Busch Stadium. Chances are the leftover chips (and other half-eaten scraps) will make their way to St. Louis Composting for use as lawn and garden food. A similar second chance exists for unsold food at the ballpark. It is donated to Operati ... More >>

Hard Sell: For Matt Damon and company, the message is the message in Promised Land

Tea Partiers Hold Flash Mob Outside Peabody Energy; Coal Co Kicks Supporters to the Curb

If you were downtown yesterday evening you might've caught red-clad Cardinals fans headed to Busch Stadium, an especially brilliant sunset, and maybe a scant group of activists commemorating the one-year anniversary of Occupy St. Louis at Kiener Plaza. Also hard to miss was a surreal and sizable g ... More >>

Life After People

Ameren Partners with Westinghouse to Build Innovative Small Nuclear Reactors

Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company today announced a partnership in order to pursue Department of Energy funds for the development and construction of new types of small nuclear reactors. If Westinghouse wins the DOE investment funds, Missouri will seek from the Nuclear Regulatory Com ... More >>

The Pageant Embraces Green Movement, Installs Solar Panels on Roof

The management of the Pageant is embracing the "green" movement, most notably with the installation of solar panels on the music establishment's roof. Patrick Hagin, the managing partner of the venue in the Loop, says he'd been considering putting in solar panels for a while, especially since a com ... More >>

House Transportation Bill Would Gut Metro Funding

​The US House of Representatives is scheduled to discuss today its version of the 2012 transportation bill -- a bill that could have major ramifications for the City and the counties.If passed, the bill, HR 7, states that mass transit would no longer automatically receive one-fifth of the fuel tax ... More >>

Radiation! It's In Your Food! Put Down the Geiger Counter, Poindexter.

Wikimedia Commons​ The truly horrible catastrophe in Japan keeps threatening people nearly two weeks after the initial earthquakes and tsunami. The nuclear power plants are damaged and there's radiation in the water, spinach and milk! Quick! Stop all exports of these products to the U.S.! Bec ... More >>

Fenton Drug Company in Overdrive After Japan Quake

​Amid panic about nuclear plants exploding after huge earthquakes hit Japan, a local drug manufacturer is seeing a run on a medicine that protects against radiation poisoning. The over-the-counter drug, ThyroShield, saturates the thyroid with potassium idodide so that it can't absorb radiation. "I ... More >>

Missouri Top 10 State for CO2 Emissions

Missouri legislators want to overturn a 2008 ballot initiative requiring state utilities to produce 15 percent of their energy from clean sources in 2021.​Missouri's carbon-dioxide output from coal-fired power plants increased last year by nearly nine percent, to more than 83 million tons. The ris ... More >>

An interview with Vince DiFiore on the eve of (finally!) a new Cake album

Vote, Often, For Solar Panels For Parkway North

Courtesy Wendy LowVote for us, darn it!​A few years back, Parkway North High School student Wendy Low and some of her friends thought it would be a great idea for the school to use solar panels to meet its electrical needs. The administration was all for it. Just one thing: Solar panels cost money ... More >>

Interview: Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground Sets the Record Straight

A 1966 Velvet Underground press shot. Moe Tucker is on the bottom right.​In April 2009, WALB-TV aired a story about a Tea Party rally in nearby Tifton, Georgia. About two-and-a-half minutes into the feature, one "Maureen Tucker, Tea Party Supporter" was quoted as saying, "I'm furious about the way ... More >>

Students Protest Speech by Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce at Wash U Research Symposium

Photo by Keegan HamiltonWash U students had a message for Peabody Energy's Greg Boyce at the Symposium for Global Energy Future​Greg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately held coal company, stepped to a podium Saturday afternoon at Washington University's Symposium on Global ... More >>

Wash U. Students Want University to Come Clean on Coal Research

Image viaBy contrast, coal accounts for more than 80 percent of Missouri's energy. ​For many environmentalists, the phrase "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms on par with military intelligence and jumbo shrimp. But to the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washi ... More >>

Study Confirms Orangutans Lazier Than the Laziest Human You Know

Orangutan at Rest: How very stereotypical.​That orangutan you see at the zoo doing nothing but sitting on its rump staring at you (no matter how hard you bang on its plexi-glass cage), is indeed as lazy as you thought. According to a new report penned by anthropology professor Herman Pontzer at Wa ... More >>

Local Protesters of Big Oil to Put Hands Across the Sand, Er, Mud and Silt

Hands Across the Sand​On Saturday, dozens of St. Louisans will gather on the riverfront beneath the Arch to hold hands in a silent protest against offshore oil drilling. Local event organizer Stacey Critzer anticipates 50, maybe even 100 participants. It's not exactly Hands Across America, but the ... More >>

Buck Naked Takes the Lead

Anti-BP Protest Planned for 10 a.m. Today at Delmar BP

Where it goes down today.​Activists who favor stricter clean-energy legislation, and oppose the controversial Murkowski resolution, are holding a rally at 10 a.m. today at BP gas station on Delmar.The rally is being organized by Repower America and its Missouri chapter, plus like-minded groups suc ... More >>

Mall Employee Gets Kinda Naked to Protest Oil Extraction in Canada

Lush employee Rachael Wall protests mining the Canadian Tar Sands. Click to view larger version.​Editor's note: Daily RFT sent able-bodied intern Steve Hardy to the Galleria today to report on one of the most earnest protests ever held on a Wednesday afternoon in a mostly vacant shopping mall. Bel ... More >>

Lush Cosmetics Employees Stripping to Stop Canadian Oil Production

Artist's butcheringLeft, soaps sold by Lush Cosmetics. Right, the Canadian tar sands. Only if a good scrubbing by one would clean the other.​While the Deep Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to cough up oil underwater, a chain of organic soap shops is planning a separate protest this ... More >>

Burn! Scientists Say Missouri and Illinois Pay Billions to Import Coal

Image sourceA gift to clean energy advocates from the Union of Concerned Scientists​A report on coal imports from the Union of Concerned Scientists was just about a month too late for the Great Coal Debate at Washington University.,It's a pity too, because the environmental activist group found th ... More >>

Illinois Lawmakers Take A Siesta to Condemn Arizona's Immigration Law

Image sourceThe Illinois House of Representatives asks, "¿Como se dice 'snooze' en español?"​On the eve of their summer recess, the Illinois House of Representatives boldly passed a resolution that officially condemns Arizona's harsh new immigration law. Trouble was, they ended up taking the leg ... More >>

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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to Speak at Wash. U. Commencement

Image sourceU.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Does this look like a face that could launch a thousand student protests?​Remember when Washington University gave Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree? Remember those heady days of anger and protest? College commencements are, by their nature, d ... More >>

Roy Blunt "Proud" To Be On Environmentalist's Dirty Dozen List

Image Via Lee Marvin does not approve of Roy Blunt's environmental voting record​The League of Conservation Voters released its annual "Dirty Dozen" list of U.S. lawmakers who consistently vote against clean energy and the environment yesterday and Missouri's Roy Blunt was among the dirtiest.The g ... More >>

Nick Jonas and the Administration

7 p.m. Tuesday, January 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Peabody, Wash U. Lock Horns with Man Behind Clean Coal Consortium Parody Website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncharris/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Coal!​The website of the Washington University Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization openly admits to "perpetuating the myth that coal can be used in a clean and sustainable manner," to being a "public relations tool for industry," to advancin ... More >>

Wash. U. turns its grease into gas, the Cards make a deal, and Lambert dumbs down its signage

Wash. U. Turns French Fry Grease into Biodiesel

flickr.com/photos/boxerdogoramaSure this looks kind of gross, but do you think unrefined gasoline really looks any better?​Washington University's dining service, Bon Appétit, continues to prove it has a higher social conscience than you do. First it boycotted tomatoes. Now it is converting its u ... More >>

Missouri Gets $23 Million for Clean Energy

flickr.com/photos/jkgrooveRep. Russ Carnahan office today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has released $22.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Missouri."As Congress continues working on comprehensive e ... More >>

But How Do You Wind It?

Wild Rides: Sometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the hybrid Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure.

Still Shakey After All These Years

Last Night: Project: Design! at Contemporary Art Museum

St. Louis Style

Feeling fashionable?

Presto Pesto

Lean, green and pretty tasty, actually

Fig-get Me Not

Love of food improves the world

News from Harvest

Things to Do with the Kiddies At Ballpark Village

Green Teams: The Cardnials scramble to join the ranks of the environmentally conscious

Bad Folk
Bad Folk/Rats and People

"That Great Atomic Power Scared Charlie Louvin More than God" 7"
(self-released)"Saw a Circus" / "I Sang to Heather Nethereye" split 7"
(self-released)

The Ditty Bops

7 p.m. (all-ages) and 10 p.m. (21+) Thursday, August 23. Mad Art Gallery, 2727 South 12th Street.

Do It EarthWays

Shark Bites

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory.

Comeback Kid

Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Apollo's Chariot

The 2001 Formula Sun American Solar Challenge blazes through the St. Louis area

Power Play

California's troubles slowed deregulation here, but Ameren is preparing to turn up the juice

Hot Rods

Spent nuclear fuel could be barreling down accident-plagued, construction-delayed Interstate 70

The Merchant of Venice

The McKinley Bridge is broke — structurally and financially — and everyone wants it fixed. Trouble is, Mayor Tyrone Echols of Venice isn't about to give away the city's bridge. But he could be talked into trading it.