Fall 2025 Dardenne Creek Monitoring
2025-10-25 - 2025-10-26
Join Greenway Network on this twice-a-year adventure to monitor Dardenne Creek. Experienced Stream Team volunteers can go out to one or more sites and do a complete water quality monitoring protocol. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is new to Stream Team and wants to test their skills with some experienced backup. People who are interested in learning more about Stream Team or water quality monitoring are also invited to participate on Saturday and/or Sunday. Register for this important and fun event at https://greenwaynetwork.org/participate/dardenne-creek-monitoring-days/

Kinloch Community Cleanup & Revitalization
2025-11-08 08:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Clean Up, Build Up Kinloch: a powerful effort to restore pride, beauty, and unity!
November 6th & 8th, 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Meet at: Oguinn Boyd Park, 8018 School Way, Kinloch, MO
Parking: Kinloch City Hall, 5825 Martin Luther King Blvd https://kinlochmo.org/
Come out and lend a hand! This is a great opportunity for students to earn community service or volunteer hours while making a real difference. Bring your gloves, safety vests, and tools if you have them — rakes, shovels, weed trimmers, wheel barrows, trash bags, grabbers, or brooms — and let’s work together to clean up and build up Kinloch! Presented by the City of Kinloch, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, STL Partnership, and the Regional Business Council, with support from amazing community partners.

Big Muddy Speaker Series Nov 2025
2025-11-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S. Riverside Dr, Saint Charles, MO, 63301, United States
A Community Conversation on Data Centers – Presentation by Natalie Johnson, Executive Director, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, for Missouri River Relief’s Big Muddy Speaker Series, hosted in St Charles by Greenway Network.
7 p.m. presentation (6 p.m. Social Hour)
Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Dr, St Charles, MO 63301
Across Missouri, data centers are rapidly expanding – bringing with them big questions about water use, energy demand, and environmental impact. These developments are reshaping our landscape and our policies faster than most communities can keep up.
Join Natalie Johnson, Executive Director of Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, for a conversation about what this growth means for our shared environment, our big rivers, and the people who call it home. While this isn’t a topic we have all the answers to yet, Natalie brings years of experience advocating for communities and the environment, helping translate complex issues into collective action.
This dialogue marks an important step in understanding and responding to one of Missouri’s most pressing emerging challenges—ensuring that innovation and economic development move forward with transparency, accountability, and care for our natural resources.
Natalie Johnson is the Executive Director of Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, Missouri’s only nonprofit public-interest environmental law firm. With more than 20 years of experience advancing environmental protection and community-driven advocacy across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, Natalie leads the Center’s work to safeguard the region’s air, water, land, and communities through strategic legal action and deep partnership with the people most impacted by environmental decisions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and a Master of Science in Natural Resources and Environmental Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
