Muir AI, a Seattle startup providing carbon accounting, has raised a $3.25 million seed round led by Base10 Partners. Existing investors Madrona Venture Labs and Soma Capital also participated in… Read More
Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide. The facilities require significant amounts of concrete, which is a… Read More
Climate tech investors and entrepreneurs met Monday evening in downtown Seattle to network and gather insights from each other. The meetup was among the first events held as part of… Read More
Climate tech can be a somewhat scary sector for investors to make their bets. Backing companies that are building physical stuff — like batteries and solar panels, devices to capture… Read More
Amazon today announced it’s paying 1PointFive for the removal of 250,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere over a decade. The purchase supports 1PointFive’s construction of what aims to… Read More
Microsoft announced that it is purchasing 315,000 metric tons of carbon removal over a multi-year period from climate tech startup Heirloom Carbon, one of the biggest deals of its kind… Read More
Amazon for three years has ranked as the No. 1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions… Read More
Data Blanket is a new startup out of the Seattle area developing small fleets of AI-powered drones that can perform self-guided missions to assess wildfires and automatically share that information… Read More
Seattle real estate platform Redfin analyzed migration patterns of Americans in recent years and found high numbers of people moving into, rather than out of, areas at high risk of… Read More
For the first time in the five years that Amazon has shared its carbon emissions, the cloud computing, online retail and entertainment giant has stopped the growth of its footprint,… Read More
Story updated with comment from Amazon. Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted on Sixth Avenue outside the company’s Seattle headquarters on Thursday.… Read More
I don’t like food waste. One of my mottos is, “No food left behind.” I’ll toast the heel of the bread loaf and microwave sketchy leftovers from the fridge (luckily… Read More
Inside a cavernous building in Cashmere, Wash., workers pressed thousands of tons of local apples and pears into Tree Top juices every year. But after more than four decades, operations… Read More
The news: Climate Vault Solutions on Tuesday announced its launch and a $9.4 million seed round. The Seattle-based company is the sales and marketing arm of Climate Vault platform, which… Read More
With a world population of more than 8 billion people, it’s increasingly important to make finite resources on the planet last longer and to waste less. One possible way to… Read More
I was a little anxious going to an evening talk about climate change. I wondered in advanced what elixir of melatonin, Benadryl and CBD gummies would be required to get… Read More
After its carbon footprint grew a shoe size or two in 2021, Microsoft notched a small decline in its carbon emissions last year. The cloud, software and gaming giant cut… Read More
The average U.S. adult will produce 128,000 pounds of trash in their lifetime. Sure, it sounds like a big number. But what does it really mean? Nick Huzar, co-founder and… Read More
Climate tech investments have been rapidly climbing in recent years, topping $1.11 trillion globally last year, according to BloombergNEF. And the dollars are urgently needed. International experts warn that the… Read More
Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints. But it can get complicated when companies try to calculate how much carbon they’re responsible for, and figure out how to… Read More
International scientists this month warned that urgent action is needed within a decade in order to avoid a global warming catastrophe, putting renewed pressure on climate tech companies to rapidly… Read More
As international scientists are frantically raising alarms about climate change, corporations, public policy and tech innovation are coming together to potentially unleash a large-scale rollout of solar, wind, batteries and… Read More
Myno Carbon‘s leader calls his team “committed climate warriors.” But it wasn’t always that way. “You’ll have to forgive us for this, but we’re ex-oilfield people largely by background,” said… Read More
Slashing carbon emissions requires the rapid deployment of solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies. But the projects often require complicated, lengthy negotiations between clean energy developers and buyers to… Read More
The results are in for Washington’s first auction of carbon pollution permits. The cap-and-invest program brought in $300 million from many of state’s biggest emitters, including fossil fuel refineries and… Read More
DroneSeed, a Seattle startup using technology to help restore forests scorched by wildfire, announced Tuesday that it is now operating under a new parent brand called Mast Reforestation and has… Read More
Geoengineering is the in-case-of-emergency-break-glass response to climate change. It means taking action to alter the atmosphere to reflect the sun’s radiation and temporarily slow global warming. The controversial idea has… Read More
In January 2020, Microsoft announced its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, and six months later Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. An analysis of the investments made since… Read More
A Seattle teen is creating a bit of turbulence with a website tallying the carbon emissions of the ultra-rich traveling on private jets. Akash Shendure totaled up last year’s jet… Read More
Reuven Carlyle, who last month retired from the Washington State Senate, is launching a startup that will provide a suite of services to help businesses reduce their climate impacts. The… Read More
