Indianapolis Office of Sustainability

The Indianapolis Office of Sustainability announced recipients of its new Thriving Nonprofits program, designed to help local nonprofits reduce operating costs by improving energy efficiency.

Indianapolis is among the worst in the country for energy efficiency, according to the report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Transportation is a main factor contributing to Indianapolis’s low score as it makes up about third of the city’s total carbon emissions.

Indianapolis is one of the only major U.S. cities without a comprehensive curbside recycling program for all residents.

Spring is the ideal season for cleaning out and discarding unused or outdated items throughout the home. The Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, also known as Sustain Indy, will hold a free recycling event on April 23 at Krannert Park for unwanted electronics.

Work to prepare Central Indiana communities to be more resilient in the face of climate change is ongoing.

Hundreds of trees were planted across Indianapolis this week to increase the city’s urban tree canopy.

The new Assessment and Intervention Center, AIC, on the Community Justice Campus received a Silver LEED designation.

The City of Indianapolis recently named a new leader for the Office of Sustainability. Morgan Mickelson talks to reporter Jill Sheridan about the Thrive Indianapolis plan.

The move to increase solar energy equity in Indianapolis is led by the city's Office of Sustainability and nonprofit Solar United Neighbors, SUN.

The metro area which incudes Indianapolis, Carmel, and Anderson only made slight improvements in about half of the topics discussed in the report.