View previous newsletters from the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability outlining sustainability + resilience news from around Central Indiana.
Updates on the city’s energy benchmarking and transparency compliance program, Thriving Buildings, are archived here. The intended audience is owners or facilities managers of large buildings (50,000 square feet or larger) within Indianapolis-Marion County.
In honor of Earth Day this week, Bloomberg Cities takes a closer look at 9 solutions emerging from the American Cities Climate Challenge that can inspire city leaders everywhere.
A lot of cities have climate-action plans but don’t have systems in place to deliver on big promises. That’s what makes the data-driven delivery plan surrounding Indianapolis’ sustainability plan so important.
Read MoreThriving Buildings is the resulting initiative following the City-County Council's passage of the benchmarking and transparency ordinance last summer, bringing with it the potential to significantly reduce utility costs, create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the built environment, and improve overall air quality citywide.
Read MoreIndianapolis’ Office of Sustainability on Tuesday launched the first phase of its building utility tracking and transparency program, bolstered by a new $25,000 equity-oriented award. Called Thriving Buildings, the program’s initial phase includes voluntary participation by private building owners while mandating participation for some municipal buildings.
Read MoreThe Thriving Buildings program from Indianapolis’ Office of Sustainability allows building owners and operators benchmarking capability through the EPA’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager. Buildings can track meter data to identify ways to reduce energy and water usage, compare with other structures, and provide their usage data to the city.
Read MoreInterest is on the rise, according to the Department of Public Works, which adopted late last month its first cohesive policy for handling the temporary, low-cost installations that are widely known as tactical urbanism.
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Office of Sustainability today announced that environmental reporting efforts this year will include the submission of a "science-based target" as an interim checkpoint for achieving citywide carbon neutrality by the year 2050.
Read MoreWork to prepare Central Indiana communities to be more resilient in the face of climate change is ongoing.
Read MoreWith a closing date last Thursday, February 24, 2022, the Series 2022C bonds issued by the Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank have been designated as “green bonds” due to their alignment with sustainable development goals.
Read MoreGet ready for some greener laws. Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration has already moved on some big-ticket items, such as 2019’s wide-ranging Thrive Indianapolis climate resiliency plan and last summer’s utility-usage tracking program for large buildings.
Read MoreToday Mayor Joe Hogsett announced that the IndyRent rental assistance program has reached a milestone of over $100 million distributed to Indianapolis tenants. Nearly 45,000 applications have been approved since the program began in 2020.
Read MoreCity officials in Indianapolis hope a new bus line targeting the needs of low-income residents will be the catalyst that transforms an underinvested corridor through economic development.
Read More"It will help address food deserts in underserved communities. It will cultivate youth leadership and it will encourage and provide for school gardens year round," said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett.
Read More“There are no requirements, the event is free,” Hannah Scott, spokesperson for the city of Indianapolis, said. “The ride will be a mix of trails and roads that will go past 10 completed, ongoing and upcoming [Department of Public Works] projects.”
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Office of Sustainability and the Department of Public Works hosted another successful post-holiday electronics recycling (E-Cycle) event this past Saturday at Garfield Park. During the five hour event, 603 cars and bicycles attended, recycling 60,689 total pounds of material.
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Department of Public Works and Indy Parks are once again teaming up to accept live Christmas trees for recycling at multiple drop-off points in public parks throughout the city.
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Office of Sustainability is spreading the word about the risks of extreme cold and individual actions you can take to keep warm during the dark days of winter. Part of the office's mission is to empower residents to be more resilient in the face of a changing climate.
Read MoreEarth Charter Indiana has received a $225,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that will support expansion of its Thriving Schools Challenge with the development of gardens at K-12 schools throughout the state.
Read MoreMayor Joe Hogsett and Kären Haley, executive director of Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc., announced a two-mile expansion of the trail during a groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 4.
Read MoreToday, the City's Office of Sustainability revealed a comprehensive overhaul to ThriveIndianapolis.com, the website that hosts Thrive Indianapolis ("Thrive"), Indy's first-ever sustainability and resiliency action plan originally published in 2019.
Read MoreThe city used public input to name future uses for the Blue Indy charging stations - including electric vehicle charging stations, placemaking and bike or scooter sharing. More than 1,200 residents responded to a survey about the Blue Indy sites in their neighborhoods.
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