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Gateway Greening's Civic Greening project, Urban Roots, was an annual beautification project for downtown St. Louis. Each year, Gateway Greening staff and volunteers came together with St. Louis Master Gardeners to brighten the downtown landscape with beautiful summer flowers at Kiener Plaza. This program has been suspended due to ongoing ...
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Programs (LIHEAP) and Weatherization Assistance Programs (WAP) work together to help low-income individuals and families pay energy bills and reduce energy costs. This article gives of overview of each program and describes how they work together. LIHEAP and WAP literature is also examined.
Gwendolyn Grant is an American activist. She is President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. [1] She became their first female CEO in 1995. [2]Grant has received numerous honors including the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Leadership Award for Advancing Racial Equity and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Community Service Award.
Lane County's housing authority, Homes For Good, located at 100 W. 13th Ave. in Eugene, supports affordable housing and health and wellness through programs such as the weatherization and heat ...
The urban area of St. Louis has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa); however, its metropolitan region even to the south may present a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa), which shows the effect of the urban heat island in the city. [citation needed] The city experiences hot, humid summers and chilly to cold winters.
Greater St. Louis is the 23rd-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, [3] [4] the largest in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois.Its core city—St. Louis, Missouri—sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
She founded the National Urban League Guild in 1942 in order to raise funds in support of the League's racial equality programs. [5] Lester B. Granger, then director of the Urban League, challenged Moon personally to help the league become 'financially stable.' [ 2 ] At first an informal group, it eventually developed bylaws and held elections ...
Weatherization is a set of measures and practices aimed at improving the energy efficiency of a building or home, primarily to reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills. The main goal of weatherization [9] is to make a structure more comfortable and cost-effective to live in, especially during extreme weather conditions. It involves ...