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Cupertino Union School District has four new big yellow schoolbuses that are very much green at heart. The buses are thanks to a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
A new pilot program Bonneville Power Administration is starting with two wind energy operates will add flexibility to the Northwest electric grid and enable better accommodation of variable renewable energy sources.
With green building becoming mainstream, the next big thing for the industry is in the realm of net-zero: buildings that produce all the energy they need.
Pike Research released a report this week indicating that net-zero construction will become a $1.3 trillion global business by 2035, driven largely by demand from Europe where zero-energy requirements are increasingly becoming required by...
On Southeast 122nd Avenue, from Foster Road to Division Street, crowded apartment complexes sit one next to the other. Shops, stores and houses are few and far between.
But some residents of the area have joined with Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to change all that.
A new study from Stanford University concludes that studies of public transit fail to consider the type of trips taken by women, an oversight that leads transit agencies to fail to provide for women’s transit needs.
Specifically, transit agencies tend to completely ignore trips that involve taking care of a child or relative, trips that are predominately taken by women.
This session, a group of lawmakers are aiming to clamp down on litterbugs. The bill they're supporting would increase statewide fines for dumping large quantities of litter.
Wildlife managers have temporally closed two wildlife areas in Central and Eastern Oregon. The closures are part of an effort to protect big game populations.
The enduring species-protection dilemma in Northwest forests ratcheted up recently as the American Forest Resource Council, joined by Douglas County, sued the US government over lands identified as critical to the survival of an elusive seabird called the marbled murrelet.
Architects had some triumphs in converting the former First Church of Christ Scientist on Capitol Hill into townhomes, but the difficulties they encountered offer lessons about preservation in the city.
The nation's crumbling roads, bridges and transit systems are at the point of hindering U.S. economic growth, but Congress is struggling to come up with a solution. The problems are numerous.
