GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2020

Amazon announced its Climate Pledge initiative last year as the company promised to become net carbon neutral by 2040. It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world , generate zero waste from operations and events, and be powered with 100% renewable electricity. Nickname suggestions needed for Seattle venue.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

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. He has not released further details on where the money will go.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon expanded the number of items certified as Climate Pledge Friendly from 20,000 when the program launched in 2020 to 500,000 today. Amazon's report explains that the increase was due to business growth and more transportation provided by Amazon's own fleet instead third-party drivers, as well as a change in emissions calculations.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Amazon is launching a new environmental program called Climate Pledge Friendly that will label certain products that meet one of 19 certifications for sustainability. Bezos, the world’s richest person with a net worth of $185 billion, also separately announced a $10 billion back in February dedicating to combating climate change.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program. In July the company announced an investment of $50 million in Energy Impact Partners, a venture capital firm that supports new energy and transportation tech. Woka donated $250,000 and committed to another $250,000 next May.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

We talked to transportation companies, city officials, and experts about what the future of micro-mobility looks like. Transportation has ground to a halt as widespread shutdown orders have shifted work and education online. But what demand for micro-mobility will look like after cities open back up remains an open question.

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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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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. The program, which is called Bird Platform, has led some operators to fall into deep debt, OneZero reported last year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yet this site is home to one of ConocoPhillips’s three major development programs in the state, and central to its operations are the company’s gas turbines. They involve a manual up-front design phase followed by handoffs across the supply chain and miles of transportation, a sequence of events that can take 30 weeks if not longer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. While organizations know they need to mitigate environmental risks more effectively across the supply chain, often they struggle to translate that ambition into results.

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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. Amazon is pouring more money into Rivian , as the electric vehicle maker announced Friday that the tech giant was among lead investors in a $2.5

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Dataconomy

JUNE 1, 2023

Eliza Pan, a cofounder of AECJ and a former program manager at Amazon With posters reading “Amazon strive harder” and “Earth’s best employer?” 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.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

million net loss and $132.5 million net loss and $94.8 million members across industries including media, technology, financial services, transportation, energy, and retail. It plans to trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker ACCD. The company’s latest S-1 registration filing shows a $51.3 “The U.S.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jay Inslee to the right and Albert Gore, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, to the left. Bill Huntington, First Mode’s director of manufacturing, showed off a torque wrench that’s programmed to give bolts just the right amount of torque. Even the wrenches have gone digital.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We want to understand all at once how these species might be changing on the landscape,” said Kim Sager-Fradkin, wildlife program manager for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. This is “a species that should be prioritized because of the net benefit,” he said. ” Why the cougar focus in particular? Panthera Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Gates’ Breakthrough Energy runs multiple programs, including an investment initiative called Breakthrough Energy Ventures that has raised more than $2 billion and made investments in 80 companies across 11 countries. ” The program’s public partners include the United Kingdom and U.S. Catalyst has secured $1.5

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Net Zero Tracker created by MSCI. Yet, as BCG's figures indicate, the more data that CSPs transport, the more their own emissions performance will suffer, particularly since one of the major issues for CSPs is the use of energy to power their networks. this figure could reach 14% by 2040. MSCI-warming-by-sector.png. Source: MSCI.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

There is also growing scrutiny on supply chain emissions from manufacturing and transporting telecom equipment. Leading telecom companies have pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2040-2050. Target setting and disclosure Robust target setting and transparent reporting are crucial for driving decarbonization programs.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Self-driving technology startup Aurora, which was founded by the former head of Google’s autonomous vehicle program, is the latest company to announce that it’s going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (or SPAC). Lucid Motors will pull in an astonishing $4.4 billion when it goes public soon after.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 14, 2012

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

. “We’re proposing to combine the hypersonic research of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and some of those geometries, with reusable rockets to attack the trillion-dollar air transportation market instead of the $11 billion space launch market.” The company has been awarded $2.25

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

It’s certainly been a unique inaugural cohort for the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) , a new startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA. based lab debuted in early May and will wrapped up its first program — held virtually due to the pandemic — this week. The Bellevue, Wash.-based What’s your secret sauce?

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

A new study led by Ashley Nunes , a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, concluded that fleets of electric autonomous taxis could “dramatically increase energy consumption and emissions that contribute to climate change — not reduce them.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even though the economic flywheel has provided jobs and created wealth for spending and investment in leading tech cities, it has not solved the social challenges of homelessness, inadequate education, public safety, and transportation. Flat-out crazy, local leaders and transportation experts said. Of course, it was never this tidy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The perfect ESG software would encompass all lifecycle elements of an ESG strategy, be a potent program management tool, a risk management tool, provider of analytics, and a vehicle for accountability and verification.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

Our net income in 2020 was $21.3 One such program is WorkingWell – which we launched to 859,000 employees at 350 sites across North America and Europe in 2020 – where we coach small groups of employees on body mechanics, proactive wellness, and safety. I’m going to switch gears for a moment and talk about the past.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

He nixed language that made the bills’ implementation dependent upon a yet-to-be-approved transportation package. The state senator and others, however, are optimistic that the transportation package will be approved in an upcoming special legislative session, making the vetoes a moot point in some respects. Next steps.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Amazon had been criticized in the past for not moving faster to implement sustainable programs in terms of especially their logistics and operations programs. But in recent years they have announced the Climate Pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040. I mean, batteries, aren’t great for the environment.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2021

“Their judgment will be if we did what we said we’re going to do and if they got the bang for the buck that they wanted us to get, is my impression,” said Roger Lee, whose Rio Hondo Independent School District was awarded $100,000 to boost local transportation services and to support a robotics program at an elementary school.

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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. Cheryl Chung is a Lead Strategist in the Futures Division of Singapore’s Ministry of Transport.

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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

In order to combat this, a program called Tulsa Remote was launched offering $10,000 grants and “numerous community-building opportunities” to fully remote workers to move to Tulsa for a full year. As always, every locality should stop subsidizing the cost of parking and make it easier to take climate-friendly transportation.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. So back in 2009, I was able to include a mandate that the Federal Communications Commission had to lay out a broadband plan for the United States of America and to do it in every single sector: agriculture, transportation, industry, energy, education, health care.

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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. GW: Do you expect the next COVID relief package to include any programs to help rural Americans get online?

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