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
Earth Finance, a Seattle-area company founded last year that helps businesses globally reduce their climate impacts, announced Monday that it acquired Water Foundry, which helps clients manage water scarcity and… Read More
Earth Finance, a Seattle-area company that helps businesses reduce their climate impacts, acquired Climate Engine, a startup that provides analysis and visualizations of satellite, meteorological and other climate data. Terms… Read More
Successful tech ventures don’t materialize in a vacuum. They need talented, skilled leaders and employees, and capital and customers to fund their ventures. And they benefit from supportive policy makers… 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
State Sen. Sharon Shewmake is taking over as chair of the Senate’s Environment, Energy and Technology Committee, a wide-ranging clearinghouse for legislation on issues including artificial intelligence oversight, climate change… Read More
— Earth Finance, the Seattle corporate strategy and climate investing company, announced Wednesday it acquired Molecule, a Seattle-based climate advocacy firm. Molecule’s founder and principal Timothy Zenk will join Earth… Read More
After a decade working in the tech sector, Joe Nguyen tackled his new role as a state senator like any good program manager. He sat down and created a process… 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
Aina Abiodun is ready for the climate tech sector to recognize that communities everywhere are already experiencing the challenging impacts of a warmer world — and they need help surviving… Read More
— Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly, a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes,… Read More
Washington state Rep. Amy Walen went to the state’s capitol planning to work on gun violence and affordable housing. But when she arrived in Olympia, Walen discovered an additional important… Read More
The data of professionals licensed with Washington state may have been compromised, according to the agency that issues such licenses. The state issues and processes about 40 types of professional… Read More
Washington is leaning into the fight against climate change. Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have set ambitious carbon reduction targets and invested millions to meet those goals. The state… Read More
Follow-up: Watch the show and read a recap of the winners here The anticipation is building. The champagne is on ice. We are moments away from the sold out 2022… Read More
Community. It felt good to say it and hear it, and it felt even better to see it in action on Thursday in Seattle as the tech community gathered for… Read More
If you were counting on generous rebates from Washington state to help cover the cost of an electric vehicle purchase, you’re probably out of luck — at least for the… Read More
The GeekWire Awards are here! Our annual celebration of Pacific Northwest tech takes place later today, May 12, at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. The event is sold out, but… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday joined with state lawmakers to announce his proposed climate initiatives, which total $626 million worth of programs to cut carbon from buildings, transportation and… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee this week signed into law what many are calling the nation’s most ambitious package of climate policies. One of the key lawmakers behind the legislation gives… Read More
Before enrolling last fall in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Mya Baker and Mia Huynh were not writing lines of code. Or… Read More
Melissa Santos is a reporter for Crosscut, where this story first appeared. Amazon is embracing the adoption of a low-carbon fuel standard in Washington state, telling Gov. Jay Inslee that the plan… Read More
Washington state will once again try to pass data privacy regulations akin to Europe and California’s laws this year — and the third time could be the charm, according to… Read More
A bill that would have enacted data privacy regulations in Washington state failed to pass the state legislature before the session ended Thursday. The bill sought to have the state… Read More
Washington state legislators introduced two draft bills on Monday intended to regulate personal consumer data privacy and the use of facial recognition technology. GeekWire previously reported on the bills this… Read More
Washington state could become a pioneer in regulating artificial intelligence if lawmakers and Microsoft get their way. A series of bills introduced this legislative session seek to blaze a trail… Read More
Washington state legislators will push for new regulations governing data privacy and facial recognition next year, and a draft bill obtained by GeekWire provides a glimpse into what they have… Read More
There’s growing consensus that something needs to be done about data privacy. But figuring out what should be done and who should be doing it is a lot more complicated.… Read More
Efforts to enact new data privacy regulations in Washington state failed this week as legislators and tech titans Amazon and Microsoft failed to reach a compromise before the deadline. The… Read More
Consumer and civil rights advocates are up in arms over the status of a data privacy bill in Washington state. The bill would give Washington residents more control over the… Read More
