FRIDAY HARBOR, WA-A grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation has helped add four new solar sites to the Orcas Power and Light Cooperative Green Power program headquartered here. With

WOODINVILLE, WA-Quality Business Systems, a locally-based digital imaging provider, has leased a building to be constructed by Opus Northwest at the Woodinville 522 Business Center. QBS signed a lease for 32,000 sf of rentable space in Building D.

BELLEVUE, WA-Bellevue Community College's newest classroom is being billed as one of the most environmentally-friendly structures in the region. The $20-million, 68,000-sf structure features waterless urinals, a geothermal heating and cooling system and other green innovations expected to save money over the life of the building.

SEATTLE-Consumer, environmental and social justice activists in 300 U.S. cities, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will leaflet and stage protests in front of Starbucks coffee shops during a "Frankenbuck$" Global Week of Action, beginning today and ending Sept. 23.

PORT ORCHARD, WA-Kitsap County officials have opened bids for the nearly $8.5 million jail expansion project. The larger building is expected to house 300 more inmates than the county's existing facility.

SEATTLE-AvalonBay Communities Inc. has broken ground on Avalon Madison, a 16-story high-rise luxury apartment community located on Capitol Hill. The project will feature 154 apartments, 39,000 sf of office space and 12,800 sf of retail space.

SEATTLE-Samantha Golding-Turner has joined the Grubb & Ellis Downtown team as an associate. Golding-Turner specializes in office property leasing throughout the Puget Sound Region

BELLEVUE, WA-Schnitzer Northwest has paired with an anonymous donor in a Civica Office Commons community recognition program that has made more than $10,000 in charitable contributions. Donation recipients include Alliance for Education, Plymouth House and Passages Northwest.