Sustainability

A blue plate bolted to the underside of EV buses at Kansas City International Airport will help push sustainability at the airport -- and potentially across the area.

Sustainability Ambitions Soaring at KCI

Kansas City International Airport plans to have electric buses linking economy parking with its sparkling new terminal recharge wirelessly – on the fly, so to speak – which would make it the first airport in the world with that capability.

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Melissa Nelson-Baldwin catches hemp hurds as they fall out of the decorticator at South Bend Industrial Hemp.

‘Highway to Hemp’: Waves of Fiber and Grain

South Bend Industrial Hemp, located at the outskirts of Great Bend, Kansas, is at the cutting edge of the emerging industrial hemp economy.

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The Second + Delaware Apartments

Accolades for Apartments Offer Latest Sign KC is an Emerging Energy Efficiency Mecca

One of the most energy efficient apartment complexes in the world is at Second and Delaware streets in Kansas City. It’s getting more attention as the world combats climate change.

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Rendering of new Kansas City International Airport.

Kansas City Pursues Massive Solar Farm at KCI

Kansas City is considering putting a massive 2,000-acre solar farm on city land at Kansas City International Airport, creating one of the largest solar power installations in the nation.

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Food getting ready to be composted at Missouri Organic Recycling's facility in Liberty, Missouri.

Kansas City Sustainability Projects Get Grants to Fight Food Waste

Projects aimed at reducing food waste in Kansas City have gotten nearly $500,000 in grants from the EPA.

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