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…
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A scuba diver among a bed of kelp in Edmonds, Wash. (Gray McKenna Photo) Kelp is cool. Some varieties of the ribbony seaweed can grow up to two feet a day. They form “marine skyscrapers” that stretch up to 45 feet from the seafloor to the surface, creating habitat for crabs, fish and sea otters….