The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

billion over the last three months, with its adjusted net revenues down 29 percent compared to Q2 of 2019. But there was no mistaking the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the company’s core transportation business. It wasn’t as grim a quarter as the first three months, in which Uber’s net loss was $2.9

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

The Seattle Department of Transportation confirmed to GeekWire that a crew from the agency was pressure washing the message off the street on Thursday afternoon. ” Lanes of Sixth Avenue are shown closed on Thursday as the Seattle Department of Transportation prepared to remove street graffiti near Amazon HQ. .”

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2023

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted last year, Amazon’s footprint is roughly twice that of Ireland , and less than Washington state , which emitted more than 102 million metric tons in 2019. “We remain confident in our approach,” Hurst wrote. Scope 1 emissions grew by 10.7%

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announcing the Climate Pledge in September 2019. Amazon on Tuesday launched The Climate Pledge Fund , a new venture capital investment program that will funnel an initial $2 billion into startups building sustainable technologies across various industries such as transportation, food, manufacturing, and more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2023

Washington state this week kicked off the implementation of its two most ambitious climate policies to date: one that caps carbon emissions for fuel suppliers and utilities, and another requiring reductions in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. California, Oregon and British Columbia also have adopted Clean Fuel Standards.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2021

WSDA said in a news release Thursday that its staff vacuumed 113 worker hornets from the nest and netted an additional 67 hornets in the area. The portion of the tree with the nest was cut and transported to Washington State University Extension in Bellingham, Wash. in December 2019 in Washington state. WSDA Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s up from a 15% year-over-year increase in 2019. But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. That’s up from a 5% reduction in 2019.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

billion over the last three months, with its adjusted net revenues down 20 percent compared to the third quarter of 2019. Still there was no mistaking the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the company’s core transportation business. It wasn’t as grim a quarter as the first three months, in which Uber’s net loss was $2.9

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

The new capital will fund some 40-50 startups, according to Bloomberg News , and will focus on some of the trickier green technologies in development, including climate-friendlier steel and cement production, long-haul transportation, and technologies for capturing carbon from the air.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a somewhat surprising investment for Gates, though the Microsoft co-founder does have stakes in transportation-related companies such as the Canadian National Railway Company and Seattle digital freight startup Convoy. billion in revenue in 2019, up almost 40% year-over-year, with a net loss of $143 million.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2021

Amazon made the investment through its Climate Pledge Fund , which is aimed at backing companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040. The company previously backed Rivian in 2019 in rounds of $700 million and $1.3

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2021

billion in 2019. Amazon is investing through its Climate Pledge Fund , which is aimed at backing companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040. “In Amazon has been pouring money into the automaker for a couple years, investing in rounds of $700 million and $1.3 billion round.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 1, 2023

The company has a significant carbon footprint since it depends on fossil fuels to run the planes, trucks, and vans that transport items around the globe. Amazon stated its goals to deploy 100,000 electric delivery trucks by 2030 and to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 in its annual letter to investors.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Amazon Spheres, May 2019. Amogy is developing technology for turning ammonia into power that could potentially one day be used for heavy-duty transportation including cargo shipping. The why: Amazon has pledged to be net carbon neutral by 2040 and is encouraging others to sign its Climate Pledge and strive to do the same.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2023

“From severely undercounting our footprint to disproportionately polluting communities of color, to increasing carbon emissions 40% since 2019, to killing clean energy legislation, it’s clear that leadership still sees climate impact as an inconvenience rather than a strategic focus,” the groups said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2020

Hundreds of 737 MAX jets have been grounded worldwide since the crashes, which occurred shortly after takeoff in Indonesia in October 2018 and in Ethiopia in March 2019. Its stock price is less than half of what it was in March 2019. The combined death toll was 346 passengers and crew.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Bird is the latest transportation company, but one of only a few e-scooter companies, to go public. Bird is the latest transportation company, but one of only a few e-scooter companies, to go public. Spokespersons for Bird and Switchback II Corporation did not respond to a request for comment. billion, below the $2.85

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2023

Two years ago, a global coalition of commercial airlines committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, while shipping companies and others likewise aspire to slash emissions. ” The Boeing plant at Snohomish County’s Paine Field in 2019. It’s tech that’s in demand worldwide.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s the biggest IPO of the year as Rivian raised nearly $12 billion — more than the $8 billion Uber raised in its 2019 IPO — and the startup’s market capitalization is higher than Ford and General Motors. But the stock opened at $106.75/share In July, the tech giant was among lead investors , along with Ford, in a $2.5

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Orbite Illustration) Orbite (pronounced “or-beet,” in the French way) was founded in 2019 by Andrews, the former CEO of Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries; and Nicolas Gaume , a French-born tech entrepreneur who also works at Microsoft. Andrews acknowledged that the venture has faced its share of challenges.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Amazon has backed Rivian through its Climate Pledge Fund , which is aimed at investing in companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040. billion financing round in Rivian in July and previously backed Rivian in 2019 in rounds of $700 million and $1.3 billion to date.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Green Canopy NODE is part of the Pacific Northwest’s growing climate tech sector , which includes businesses trying to cut the carbon emissions associated with construction, transportation, agriculture and energy production.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Transportation is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, with the most significant share coming from light-duty vehicles, personal cars, vans, trucks, and SUVs. Transportation emissions are likely to rise due to the initiation of car trips that — in the absence of electric robocabs — would not be completed”.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In September 2019, Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos announced the company’s ambitious Climate Pledge, setting a goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. The Seattle tech giant’s carbon footprint grew by 19% according to its 2020 sustainability report, which comes on the heels of a 15% rise in 2019.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2021

And the benefit ties directly to Amazon’s commitment to building urban campuses where employees can use alternatives to single-driver transportation to get to work. Amazon says in Seattle more than 20% of its employees walk or bike to work and another 50% use public transportation or carpooling options.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

More than 683 companies, 136 countries and 234 cities have made pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions. The Seattle-based company in 2019 created the Climate Pledge , which is a commitment to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2040. Matthias Heyde Photo / Unsplash). How that takes shape has, so far, run the gamut.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2024

.” Johnson said they’re casting a wide net for partners who want the carbon, with an initial focus on companies incorporating it into concrete. CarbonQuest has been largely self-funded since launching in 2019, and is now pursuing outside investors. .” But the business is prepping for growth.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

Our net income in 2020 was $21.3 From 2019 to 2020, overall MSDs decreased by 32%, and MSDs resulting in time away from work decreased by more than half. We launched The Climate Pledge together with Global Optimism in September 2019 because we wanted to help drive this positive revolution.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Wanting to share the tricks and texture of New York delivery, he started filming his work in late 2019 and posting the videos to a Facebook page he started called Chapín en Dos Ruedas, meaning “Guatemalan on Two Wheels.” As contractors and, often, undocumented immigrants, they have few protections and virtually no safety net.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2022

” “This bill represents an historic opportunity to extend Washington state’s social safety net to drivers on our platform,” Hensley said. In 2019, California approved a law that classified gig drivers as employees of the companies, which caused gig companies to heavily fund a 2020 ballot measure overturning the move.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2020

– Global Influenza Strategy 2019-2030, World Health Organisation. While COVID-19 has accelerated many existing trends, it has turned around the longstanding drive to hyper-efficiency, which assumed that goods could be transported whenever needed. billion people flying in 2019, almost triple the number in 2000. Energy Flip.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s also at a time when the view that ride-sharing services are more environmentally friendly than other modes of transportation has been contradicted by a growing body of evidence. In 2019, the Transport for London ruled that private for-hire vehicles, including Uber, would no longer be exempt from the £11.50

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. She was on Avance Media’s list of Top 100 Most Influential Young South Africans in 2019.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

HB 1091 would require that fuel producers and importers reduce the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to each unit of transportation fuel, a measure known as “carbon intensity.” Carbon intensity includes not only the emissions associated with burning fuels, but also the emissions created in extracting and transporting them.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2024

From 1990 to 2019, the extreme poverty rate, as measured by the World Bank, fell from 38 percent to 8.9 percent in 2019. While the agency could not finish its scheduled 2019-2020 survey because of Covid-19, it took the data it had collected by March of 2020 and combined it with the previous cycle to update their estimates.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019, the clutch went out on Mighetto’s car, so she was driving for Lyft in a rental car to make the $1,500 she needed for the repair. When AB 5 became law in 2019, Mighetto says, “It was a huge victory for workers.” Or are workers going to continue to see their conditions deteriorate, even as executives at the top just get richer

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Maria Cantwell, and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel attend a 2019 event promoting net neutrality in Seattle. Surface transportation, rural broadband, housing — all of those are the big umbrella infrastructure. Continue reading for our edited conversation with DelBene about what she hopes to accomplish.

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