Organizations
The following organizations are active in pro-moting cleaner and
healthier air in St. Louis.American
Lung Association of Eastern Missouri
Fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control,
and environmental health.
314-645-5505
Choose Environmental Excellence –
Gateway Region
Promotes environmental excellence in Greater St. Louis through partnerships with
individuals, organizations, businesses, and government.
Website recommends simple steps to take towards environmental excellence and features a
local recycling/pollution prevention database. e-mail: ceegr.org
314-362-4100
St. Louis Community Air
Project (CAP)
St. Louis CAP is a broad-based collaborative effort, which seeks to improve
residents’ health by identifying and reducing air pollutants in St. Louis urban
areas. Our Goal is Healthier Air! e-mail: mlandrews@hotmail.com
314-533-9104 x 205
St. Louis Earth Day
Coordinates Annual Earth Day Festival (on the Muny Grounds at Forest Park on Sunday, April
27, 2003) and Earth Day Around Town activities. Visit this website to get your Earth Day
passport! e-mail: info@stlouisearthday.org
314-962-5838
St. Louis Regional Clean Air
Partnership
Responsible for air quality forecasting during summer months and the voluntary efforts to
reduce of ground-level ozone (smog) in the region.
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Websites
The following websites and books are helpful sources to learn more
about air pollution, other environment issues, and what we can all do for a cleaner and
healthier planet.
Air Junk
Ever wonder what’s floating around in the air? Here’s the place to learn!
Clean Air Counts
Highlights air quality improvement campaigns that can be carried out by households,
communi- ties, governments, developers, and businesses.
Easy Breathers
Investigates the causes and impacts of air pollution (especially related to
transportation) and introduces old and new technologies that can help solve the problem.
How Ozone
Pollution Works
Learn what ground-level ozone is, how it’s produced, what health hazards it poses,
and what you can do to reduce it.
Smog City
An interactive game that shows how your choices, environmental factors, and land use
contribute to air pollution.
U.S. EPA Environmental
Explorer’s Club
Games, pictures, and stories that explore our environment and what we can do to protect
it.
U.S. EPA Environmental
Explorer’s Club – Air Page
U.S. EPA, Region 7,
Charlie’s Corner
Activities and information about environmental issues in our EPA region.
U.S. EPA Student Center
– Air Page
Links to over a dozen websites where you can learn more about air pollution and its
causes.
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Books
Air Pollution by Rhonda Lucas Donald (Children’s Press,
2001).
One of the True Books on the Environment Series, this is an excellent introduction to air
pollution issues.
Cleaning the Air by Sharon Dalgleish (Chelsea House Publishers,
2003).
An entertaining introduction to air pollution that explains the problem and offers
practical ways that teens can solve it in their community.
Earth Under Siege: From Air Pollution to Global Change by Richard
P. Turco (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Provides a basic understanding of how our physical environment functions and how human
activities affect it.
State of the World 2003 by Worldwatch Institute
(W. Norton & Company, 2003). A comprehensive analysis of the global environmental
problems we face, together with detailed descriptions of practical, innovative solutions.
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Teacher's Corner
Easy
Breathers’ Classroom
Missouri Botanical Garden’s Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
Developing educational modules on air pollution for K-12 and adults that will be available
in summer 2003. Contact Emily Andrews at 314-533-9104 or emlandrews@hotmail.com with the St. Louis CAP to
request a copy of the modules.
Tools for Schools
An easy-to-implement, low cost program designed to improve indoor air quality in schools.
Download it from EPA’s website, or Call the American Lung Association for more
information.
(314) 645-5505
U.S. EPA Environmental Education
Center
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