Earthways Center Teaches by Example This St. Louis, Missouri,
teaching center promotes green building and home performance
through its guided tours and training programs while serving as
a model for green and energy-efficient design. EarthWays Center,
a division of Missouri Botanical Garden, promotes sustainable
energy and resource use. Based in a stately old brick home in
midtown St. Louis that has been completely renovated to model
sustainability in buildings and personal lifestyle choices, its
educational programs have earned respect throughout Missouri and
around the Midwest, addressing energy efficiency, recycling and
waste reduction, air quality, and green building. Expertise of
the current staff includes environmental education, public
policy, engineering, media communications, and multiple
specialties they like to call applied sustainability. This 1885
vintage Victorian has been through cycles of major change.
Originally a gracious single-family home, it was abandoned by
its last live in owner and sto