What is MELAB?
Missouri Environmental Literacy Advisory Board
The Missouri Environmental Literacy Advisory Board (MELAB) is an organization of organizations, with the goal of helping schools, agencies, non-profits and businesses find where they fit into Environmental Education in Missouri, network with other organzations who share similar goals, develop ways to assess if and how they are making a difference, and provide a way for them to help guide environmental education in Missouri.
If you belong to a school, agency, non-profit, business or other organization whose mission includes an interest in what Missorians know and understand about their environment, then consider these questions:
Would you like to know how your efforts fit into state and national environmental literacy initiatives?
Would you like to network with other organizations to avoid duplication, fill gaps and use your people and resources more effectively?
Would you like to know whether you are making a difference, whether you are working with pre-schoolers, school-age or adult audiences?
Would you like to help guide the future of environmental education in Missouri?
Next Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021
Time: 9am to noon Format: Virtual
If you belong to a school, agency, non-profit, business or other organization whose mission includes an interest in what Missourians know and understand about their environment, then consider these questions:
Would you like to know how your efforts fit into state and national environmental literacy initiatives?
Would you like to network with other organizations to avoid duplication, fill gaps and use your people and resources more effectively?
Would you like to know whether you are making a difference, whether you are working with preschoolers, school-age or adult audiences?
Would you like to help guide the future of environmental education in Missouri?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, please join us!
Some History
Meeting Archives
Who has participated in MELAB?
From its first meeting in March of 2012, representatives of over 80 organizations, agencies, schools, and businesses have participated in one or more of MELAB’s ongoing meetings.
Educational Institutions
Columbia College
Ferguson-Florissant School district
Kansas City Public Schools
Kirkwood School District
Ladue School District
Lincoln University
Maplewood Richmond Heights School District
Missouri State University
MU Center for Agroforestry
MU Extension
MU School of Natural Resources
Parkway School District
Principia School
Project WET, WILD, Learning Tree – Missouri State University
Raintree Preschool
St. Louis University High School
Truman State University
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Washington University Climate Change Program
Washington University/Tyson Research Center
Gov't Agencies
City of Columbia
City of Springfield
City of Springfield
City of Springfield Environmental Services
City of St. Louis
Columbia Parks and Recreation
Columbia Sustainability Office
Columbia Water & Light
KC Power & Light
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Health and Human Services
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Missouri Office of Administration
Missouri State Parks
Mo Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Ozark National Scenic Riverways – National Park Service
Peace Corps – MU Office
Prarie Fork Conservation Area
St. Louis County Health Department
U.S. Forest Service
Non-Profits
Columbia Earth Day
Conservation Federation of Missouri
Friends of the Rainforest
Gateway Greening
Gateway to the Great Outdoors
Girl Scouts of NE KS and NW MO
GLADE – & Greater Ozarks Audubon
Great Rivers Master Naturalists
Kansas City Environmental Education Network
Laumier Sculpture Park
Meramec Retional Planning Commission
Mid-America Regional Council
Missouri Audubon
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
Missouri Coordinated School Health Coalition
Missouri Foundation for Health
Missouri Green Industry Alliance
Missouri Prairie Foundation
Missouri Recycling Association
Missouri River Bird Observatory
Missouri River Communities Network
Missouri River Relief
Missouri Stream Team Watershed Coalition
national wildlife federation
Nature Conservancy; Boone County Nature School
Ozarks Water Watch
Shaw Nature Reserve
Show-Me Youth Media
Sierra Club
Springfield Master Naturalist
St. Louis Science Center
St. Louis Sustainable Villages
St. Louis Zoo
St.Louis Science Center
Watershed Committee of the Ozarks
Businesses
Bluebird Composting
Boeing
Green Chamber of Commerce – Columbia Chapter
MidWest Recycling
Staples