What do you do with 5 tons of old toilets? The city of Bellingham, Wash., found a creative (and sustainable) answer: Make sidewalk. A section of a sidewalk installed as part of a road improvement ...

A newly released rating system, Greenroads, aims to do for road construction what the LEED system has done for the building industry. The document assigns up to 118 credits for sustainable practices.

Will a new LEED-like road certification program help the Oregon Department of Transportation do more for biking and walking access? According to the Greenroads website, the program gives points to ...

Greenroads Foundation is pleased to announce that the $1.26 billion CAD South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) Project, part of Canada and British Columbia’s multi‐billion dollar Asia‐Pacific Gateway ...

The international environmental group Greenroads gave Kirkland its highest rating for the Northeast 120th Street project, which won silver certification and earned 46 out of 118 points. “Other ...

A short street in Kirkland has earned the honor of being the greenest road in the world -- at least by one measure. Earlier this month, Northeast 120th Street Extension earned the highest rating in ...

Ever wonder where old toilets go to die? We’d like to direct your attention towards Bellingham, Washington, where the city is using crushed, recycled toilets to make new sidewalks. The toilet sidewalk ...

Road construction is a more than $80 billion annual industry in the United States. Yet nothing comparable to the LEED rating system for buildings, or the Energy Star system for appliances, exists for ...

The Greenroads Foundation announced that the Bagby Street Reconstruction Project in Houston, Texas has become the first project to achieve Greenroads Certification in the State of Texas, receiving a ...