There are 7 article(s) tagged Clean Memphis:

• October 2025

  • Opinion: How a circular economy supports the ‘Digital Delta’

    A circular economy is about designing systems that are efficient, adaptive and less vulnerable to shocks. 

    By Nefertiti Orrin October 18, 2025

• March 2024

  • ‘Green’ festival sprouts at Overton Park

    Around 300 attendees connected with local organizations working to achieve a greener and cleaner Memphis.

    By Kambui Bomani March 16, 2024

• October 2023

  • Searching for the root causes of litter

    Janet Boscarino founded Clean Memphis to deal with litter. Now, some 15 years since its founding, Clean Memphis is evolving.

    By Eric Barnes October 09, 2023

• April 2023

  • Love Food, Hate Waste event all about small changes; plus, there will be beer!

    Clean Memphis is out to help people make better decisions around food and build networks to rescue surplus.

    By Jane Roberts April 07, 2023

• March 2023

  • How one organization teaches kids to care about the world around them

    “I always say that my job is to come in and teach them to be champions for the planet,” said Emma Simmons of Clean Memphis.

    By Aarron Fleming March 27, 2023

• October 2021

  • Mural to be demolished along with old MATA building

    UrbanArt Commission announced last month that the old MATA building on North Main Street will soon be demolished, taking along with it a data visualization mural painted by Khara Woods.

    By Julia Baker October 22, 2021

• June 2020

  • Kitchen decisions can help save the earth

    My kind of world-saving is the kind I can do from my kitchen, the kind that smells like a home-cooked meal and looks like a bit more menu planning and a strategy for leftovers.

    By Heidi Rupke June 07, 2020