Choose Environmental Excellence - Gateway Region does not endorse these sites or guarantee their accuracy. Other useful web sites are linked from various pages on our site. The Brookings Center of Urban and Metropolitan Policy, on why urban sprawl hurts all of us. A discussion of motivations and plans for the Confluence Greenway Project, a 40-mile riverside recreation and conservation area on both banks of the Mississippi, to be completed in 2004. A journal addressing a range of environmental issues.
Site offers articles and information on previous issues.
It has an particularly good discussion of urban sprawl. The program is intended to foster quality design in communities to produce a clean and healthy environment. This site describes its plans to be a self-reliant and sustainable community dedicated to agriculture, the arts, and a sustainable economy. The Metropolitan Planning Organization for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. Is organized to increase the tree populations of cities and communities in Missouri, and to educate its public about trees, tree care and tree plantings for beauty, the conservation of energy and the reduction of global warming.