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Lyft launches health care transportation program

The Verge

Lyft launched a program that will let health care organizations send patients prepaid passes that they can use for rides to doctor’s appointments. The program, called Lyft Pass for Healthcare, lets health care organizations or social services agencies create a budget and set approved pickup and drop-off locations.

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Seattle-area county reveals plans for ‘world leading’ sustainable aviation fuel R&D center

GeekWire

million in the state’s transportation budget to get the project rolling. “We have been at the forefront of the aviation industry for decades and this will now put us in a place to lead the world in shaping the future of clean aviation,” said Liias, chair of the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee.

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Senators spar over the idea of giving billions to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture for lunar lander program

GeekWire

who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. billion contract to SpaceX for a Starship lunar lander that’s designed to carry astronauts to the lunar surface for the space agency’s Artemis program, as early as 2024. ” The senator on the pro-funding side is Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.,

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Longterm vision for Seattle-Portland-Vancouver mega-region will require a ‘consensus on growth’

GeekWire

“It’s a little bit of a scary picture and not a place any of us want to be,” said Eric Sparks, a Seattle-based principal with The Boston Consulting Group, which prepared the Cascadia Vision 2050 report, speaking at a virtual meeting last week to discuss housing and transportation at the corridor’s annual conference.

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Washington raises $300M in its first auction for carbon pollution permits – here’s what it means

GeekWire

Moving Washington’s transportation system to non-polluting sources is a key focus for the proceeds from the state’s cap-and-invest program. The cap-and-invest program brought in $300 million from many of state’s biggest emitters, including fossil fuel refineries and energy utilities.

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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example. Against this background, a program was created intended to further develop the ITZBund into a multicloud manager.

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Amazon keeps fueling philanthropic efforts under leadership of former nonprofit executive

GeekWire

Working with a budget, kids could choose clothes, school supplies and books for their home libraries. The event was organized by Amazon in the Community, a philanthropic program within the company. The program specifically addresses needs in education, housing, food security, disaster relief and employee volunteering.

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