Below is wide range of business and organizations working to provide information and services related to renewable energy.

Services and Products
Advanced Energy Solutions
Advanced Energy Solutions sells, installs, and educates you about renewable energy to save you money and help you produce your own electricity with energy efficiency, micro-hydro, wind, and solar power.

Sustainable agriculture resources. You may also find more information of food related topics here

Missouri Farmers Union

Financing Ozarks Rural Growth & Economy (FORGE)

Missouri Organic Association

By supporting local, small family-operated farms, you become part of the solution to global food contamination, industrial agriculture and runaway energy and transportation costs. The food doesn't take two weeks to leave the field and arrive on your table, so nutrition is preserved. Locally grown food, much of it organic or naturally grown without petrochemical pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics or modified genes can be found in various communities in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks.

The Ozarks are home to some of the most amazing, clear-running rivers anywhere. Below is some information on them, and groups working to protect them.
Organizations
Arkanas Canoe Club
The Ozark Society
Ozark Riverkeepers Network
Loose-knit Ozarkers working to protect the Current, Jack's Fork, and Eleven Point Rivers.
Scenic Rivers Stream Team Association

The eastern Missouri Ozarks are home to some of the world's largest lead-ore bodies. Lead mining has been ongoing since the French settled in the 1700's, and has left a legacy of contamination. Mining and milling of lead and other heavy metals have contaminated thousands of acres of remote rural Missouri as well of the lands adjacent to the lead smelters in Herculaneum, Buick and Glover. Over the years the many and varied mining companies in Missouri have been consolidated into one large company known as the Doe Run Company. Doe Run is headquartered in St.

Against the dominant trend of clearcutting, high-grading, other "cut-and-run" logging, are a number of successful models of forest management that truly can sustain both landowner and forest. Below you will find links to some some resources to help you along this path.

Pioneer Forest

From TPM Muckraker at http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mo_senator_white_house...

MO Senator and White House Played Role in Firing of U.S. Attorney
By Kate Klonick - September 30, 2008, 3:53PM

New details provided by the IG report released yesterday, gives definition to former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves' termination and paints a clear case for a politicized firing orchestrated by the office of Missouri Sen. Kit Bond (R).

Last year, 2007, was the first time I seriously investigated eating wild mushrooms other than puffballs and morels. It was the day I was walking along a woodland trail when a bright pinkish-salmon color caught my eye. I walked over to examine what it could be and discovered an amazingly beautiful mushroom whose type I had never seen.

As fuel costs, and thus food costs, continue to rise, it may be wise for even those who have never grown one tomato plant to ponder the possibility of doing just that--and more.

Growing food sort of grows on a person, and what better time than now to start.

We grow lettuces in spring and fall (planted 2 varieties yesterday) but find that lettuce, no matter how much it is pampered, will not grow outdoors in the heat of summer in Missouri. So we eat homegrown, 100% organic, open-pollinated lettuce varieties about eight months of the year.

For those who have followed the Ameren UE story, failed reservoir on Proffit Mountain, current rebuilding of same, plans to build yet another, even larger one, on nearby Church Mountain, and more, there are many tidbits of information not known by the general public.