Mayor 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.

Today, 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.

The 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.

Indianapolis is putting $25 million toward a list of nine trail, greenway and road projects that could make it easier for bikers and pedestrians alike to get where they need to go—to work, play and run the mundane errands in between.

The Indianapolis affiliate of not-for-profit Keep America Beautiful is using data on tree cover, litter, illegal dumping, community engagement and a dozen socioeconomic indicators to target where some of those thousands of saplings will go.

The Indianapolis Office of Sustainability and Knozone will celebrate National Drive Electric Week in Indianapolis with an EV Showcase Pop-Up on Monument Circle on September 30 and October 1.

Indy’s City-County Council approved $50 million in new bonds this month to tackle a backlog of drainage projects across the city.

The rising heat, brought on by climate change, is also putting Hoosiers at greater risk of heat-related health complications. But not everyone has the same risk.

A heat advisory is in effect for Tuesday, August 24 from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m., and Indianapolis is forecasted to experience temperatures in the low- to mid-90s all this week. This summer, North America endured its hottest June on record, and summer is not over yet.

Called transit oriented development, the trend in city planning aims to create more compact and sustainable communities close to mass transit options. In Indianapolis, the new bus rapid transit lines - Red, Blue and Purple - are the focus.

Just hours after a United Nation’s report sparked alarm worldwide about the quickening climate change crisis, the Indianapolis City-County Council passed a proposal to create a standing committee Monday night with the goal of mitigating global warming’s impact on the city.

Grim warnings from the world’s leading climate scientists on Monday make clear the Earth faces irreversible changes from global warming and stress the need for immediate and wide-scale greenhouse gas reductions to avoid further damage.

Converting more than 27,000 existing streets to energy-efficient led lights, as well as installing nearly 4,000 new lights. With ONL the city is hoping to reap many benefits. Like a safer environment, the project will also help the city meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Today, Mayor Joe Hogsett and the City's Office of Sustainability announced that the Assessment and Intervention Center (AIC) has been designated LEED Silver, making it the first city-owned certified green building in Indianapolis.

Tonight the City's Office of Sustainability (OOS) celebrates the passage of Proposal 185 by the City-County Council, adding a new chapter on Benchmarking and Transparency to the City-County code.

The City of Indianapolis's Office of Sustainability and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) have collaborated with behavior science researchers at Behavior Insights Team (BIT) to study littering in Indianapolis, collect data, and implement multiple "interventions" to change human behavior around littering.

Working sustainable living into everyday life can feel like a daunting task. The challenge seems almost too large to overcome when the focus is not just on the local community, but also on the climate and other communities across the globe.

For the first time since its expansive sustainability plan was adopted in 2019, the city’s Office of Sustainability has released a report updating its progress.

The new director for Indianapolis’ Office of Sustainability came to the city to help set plans for climate action. Now, she’s staying to follow through on it.

For this special #EarthDay edition of #ThrivePlanThursday, our office is excited to present our inaugural Thrive annual report! It's an update on our community's progress to date, measured against the original metrics.