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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

. “They’re focusing on making smart investments in things that have real-world implications both near- and far-term,” said Gabriel Scheer , director of innovation for the investment and accelerator nonprofit Elemental Excelerator. Roughly 30% of the companies that Amazon backs are in green transportation.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

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AXON AI, LLC (Harrisonburg), Echosight Modeling and Prediction Software , Dr. Eastern Virginia Eye Institute (Chesapeake), Corneal Endothelial Allograft Transport and Transplant Device , Dr. Sandeep Samudre, $100,000, Life Sciences. Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Climate tech heats up in the Pacific Northwest as startups raise more than $1B since 2020

GeekWire

As the world scrambles to staunch carbon emissions from every possible source — construction, transportation, electricity and agriculture included — essentially every industry is going to need to embrace its own “wave of change” and find planet-saving ways of operating. The construction field is not alone in this challenge.

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

Transportation analyst at Cambridge Systematics.”. I helped city and state governments make better use of their transportation dollars by modeling strategic investment scenarios over long range planning horizons. Richter was previously a venture partner at Madrona and president of Isilon Storage Division of EMC.

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Revolt of the delivery workers

The Verge

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. The garage solves both problems and others, like bike storage and battery charging. She believes that some of the thieves are organized, possibly transporting the bikes out of state. They always tip well.)

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Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says

The Verge

billion has flowed from the Department of Energy to carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects since 2009. Once captured, the CO2 can be sent via pipelines to underground storage in geologic formations. It also includes another $6 billion for large-scale CCS projects and pipelines to transport CO2 to storage sites.

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