In Their Words:
Bridging The Gap works to make the Kansas City region sustainable by connecting environment, economy and community.
Bridging The Gap seeks to educate citizens, businesses and government on the impact of decisions and behavior on the present and future community and world. The cornerstone for its success in raising awareness and changing behaviors is finding common ground we all share.
What It Is Doing:
By-Product Synergy - By-Product Synergy develops relationships between businesses and government agencies to facilitate waste reduction; waste from one industry becomes the raw material for another. Currently, 95 percent of resources going into manufacturing facilities become waste products.
Clean Commute - Clean Commute at UMKC fosters alternative commuting, with an emphasis on bicycles, for the students and employees of University of Missouri, Kansas City. Reducing our dependence on single-person vehicle commuting in our region is a key to sustainability.
EarthWalk and EarthFest - By walking and raising money for EarthWalk, you directly support environmental education and awareness in Kansas City. EarthFest is a celebration of the environment, providing information and vendors to help people explore and better understand the relative impact of their different green choices.
Environmental Excellence Awards - Environmental Excellence Awards honor the work of people who strive to make our planet a better place to live.
Environmental Excellence Business Network - The Environmental Excellence Business Network acts as a networking and educational resource for businesses to reduce their emissions and other environmental impacts throughout greater Kansas City.
Five Green Things - Five Green Things is an outreach program including an interactive website and staff or volunteer speakers, suggesting a clear set of “green” actions, reducing confusion and making “going green” easy and attainable—while saving more than 4,000 pounds of unnecessary carbon emissions, just with the first five “things.”
Heartland Tree Alliance - Heartland Tree Alliance engages citizens of the greater Kansas City region to take action and advocate for a healthy community forest. Trees play a crucial role in the environment, absorbing some of our excess carbon dioxide emissions, air and water toxins, and keeping the city cool with their shade.
Kansas City WildLands - Kansas City WildLands works to conserve, protect and restore 11 of the remaining natural communities untouched by development in the Kansas City region by removing invasive plant species, re-seeding and planting native plant species and more.
Keep Kansas City Beautiful - Keep Kansas City Beautiful (KKCB) involves citizens, businesses and governments in creating a cleaner, more beautiful Kansas City. KKCB provides neighborhood leaders with education, planning support, tools, supplies , volunteers and publicity for clean-up and beautification projects.
Rain Barrels - Learn to build your own rain barrel to reduce your water bill and water pollution; stormwater runoff is a leading type of residential water pollution.
Shadowcliff - Shadowcliff Retreat Center in Grand Lake, Colorado inspires people to become “green” and sustainable through an immersion learning experience in a beautiful mountain sanctuary.
Walking School Bus - Walking School Bus, provides adult supervision to help children travel safely in groups, large or small, to school. The simple act of walking to school provides children with improved fitness, reduction in obesity and diabetes, development of a sense of well-being, and added opportunities for play and adventure
What You Can Do:
Donate here, or Get Involved.
Vox Viridis, a rough Latin translation of “green voice,” is about the intersection between people, planet, profits and the law. 
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