Welcome to Springfield/Greene County Choose Environmental Excellence

What is Choose Environmental Excellence?

Directory of Environmental Agencies and Organizations

Environmental/Conservation Education Summits and Directory of Programs

• 2005 Proceedings (pdf 93kb)
• 2006 Proceedings (pdf 111kb)
• 2007 Proceedings (pdf 185kb)
• Directory of Programs in Environmental/Conservation Education for Springfield/Greene County (pdf 518kb)

Community Resource Guide (pdf file 250kb) - Compiled by the Interpreters Coalition of Springfield-Greene County to assist in utilizing the varied resources of our community toward field education and hands-on learning experiences.

Newsletter:

• Fall 2007 (PDF 727kb)
• Spring 2007 (PDF File 788kb)
• Spring 2006 (PDF File 833kb)
• Fall 2004 (PDF File 325kb)
• Spring 2004 (PDF File 357kb)
• Spring 2003 (PDF File 2.54mb)
• Summer 2002 (PDF File 260kb)
• Winter 2002 (PDF File 540kb)
• Fall 2001
• Spring 2001 (PDF File 4.94mb)

Join Choose Environmental Excellence!
To join, fill out and submit the following form for individuals or businesses/organizations. List of current members (PDF File 33kb).

• Individual sign-up form (PDF File 25kb)
• Business/Organization sign-up form (PDF File 25kb)

Choose Environmental Excellence provides support to participants through newsletters, workshops, and technical materials. Call 864-2006 for more information.

Choose Environmental Excellence! A simple statement, a declaration, a command, or just a reminder that we all have this great power to choose. The simple choices that we make every day can and do make a difference - especially when they are joined by thousands of Missourians throughout the state. This is the underlying premise of Missouri's Choose Environmental Excellence (CEE) campaign, which was formally launched with a proclamation from Governor Carnahan on Earth Day, April 22, 1998.

Patterned after the highly successful Environmental Excellence Campaigns which began in Kansas City in 1994, CEE is a partnership of business, government and private citizens all acting together to improve our environmental awareness and actions in the daily choices we make. Each participant is asked to make a simple commitment to do a better job. Whether the issue is air quality, waste disposal, groundwater contamination or hazardous waste, the underlying environmental problems are created by all of us: individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments. We voluntarily create these problems through our daily choices, and if change is to occur, we must also choose to solve them.

The basic components of the Choose Environmental Excellence program are:

• Acknowledge we all make an impact on the environment
• Encourage education to raise awareness and give solutions
• Ask that people consider the environment in their everyday choices and Choose Environmental Excellence

Springfield/Greene County's Choose Environmental Excellence is a partnership including local environmental organizations, city and county governments and agencies, businesses, civic organizations and individuals.