Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa (left) and President Brad Smith. (Microsoft Photo) Lucas Joppa, who became Microsoft’s first chief environmental officer in 2018 and led the company’s sustainability efforts, is stepping down. Joppa is joining an unnamed private equity firm as senior managing director and chief sustainability officer, he said in a LinkedIn post…
Category Archives: Sustainability
Amazon vet flips NFT model on its head, creates a climate friendly marketplace for digital art sales
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One of the pieces of art on CO2ign Art, titled “No Planet B” by Melania Badosa. Well before cryptocurrencies and NFTs began to fizzle this spring, Carly Rector was already sour on their use for digital art sales. Rector, who is herself a digital artist and a former senior engineer at Amazon, thought it was…
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Rivian, a U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer, is producing 100,000 delivery vehicles for Amazon by 2030. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead) Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 18% last year — the third straight year of increased emissions since the company started sharing the information. The Seattle-area company created the international Climate Pledge, vowing to reach carbon neutrality…
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Aaron Blank’s Mustang, parked at a charging station during his recent West Coast electric vehicle road trip. The Fearey CEO dealt with a host of problems keeping his car sufficiently juiced. (Aaron Blank Photo) Aaron Blank set out for a West Coast road trip with his son to see some baseball and more between Los…
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Starbucks patrons will be able to get a coffee and an electric vehicle charge at select locations between Seattle and Denver. (Starbucks and Volvo Cars Photo) Starbucks and Volvo Cars are installing 60 DC electric vehicle chargers at up to 15 Starbucks locations spanning the drive from Seattle to Denver. The companies on Tuesday announced…
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TerraPower’s lab tests the equipment and processes for next-generation nuclear reactors. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) TerraPower, a Bellevue, Wash.-based nuclear power company co-founded by Bill Gates, landed $750 million in new funding. It’s among the largest funding rounds ever for a privately held Seattle-area company, and one of the biggest for a nuclear energy…
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Amazon secured the naming rights for Seattle’s rebuilt KeyArena, dubbing it the Climate Pledge Arena. The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. Among its enviro features is a living wall. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)) President Joe Biden is expected to sign legislation Tuesday that includes the…
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Members of the GetGreen team. (GetGreen Photo) A few years ago, Brian Ringer was visiting glaciers in the Canadian Rockies with his family. That was when he realized his kids wouldn’t be able to have the same experience when they were older because of the climate crisis. “Unless something radical changed, we were looking at…
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Koidra’s Chief Business Officer Soojung Smith (left) and Kenneth Tran, founder, CEO and chief technology officer, outside of their Seattle WeWork office. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) It’s pretty impressive to grow award-winning lettuce in a greenhouse competition against 42 teams from nearly two dozens countries. It’s even more remarkable when you do it from…
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A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in this Anglo American haul truck at their platinum mine in South Africa, creating the largest zero-emission vehicle in the world. (First Mode Photo) As the United States undergoes a massive transition toward clean energy, Washington state officials are hoping to…