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Secretary Jewell Highlights Economic Benefits of Recreation, Strong Trade Agreements, in Discussion with Outdoor Retailers
It’s interesting to see that Sally Jewell is supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership as an environmentally friendly trade agreement even though many progressives argue that the agreement will allow foreign nations to challenge and potentially undermine U.S. environmental regulations. SEATTLE, WA U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today met with representatives of the outdoor recreation…
Think rail traffic is congested now? Regulations to make crude-by-rail safer will slow things down even more.
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel U.S. OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION has surged in the past few years, resulting in estimates that the country will become energy independent before 2025. This is an exciting development for economic, security and political reasons, and the Pacific Northwest will play an important role. Oil extracted from the Bakken shale formation in…
Bright Idea: Water Power
Our growing dependence on such devices as smartphones has made it increasingly important for us to have easy access to power. So inventor Burt Hammer has developed the HydroBee, a USB battery charger that can tap the energy of flowing water from, say, a faucet or a stream the sun or even a bicycle to…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Battle Climate Change
The billionaire entrepreneur says it will take worldwide collective action to save the Earth
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is intent on ensuring the planet remains a viable platform for life and business in the future. To that end, Bezos announced on Monday, Feb. 17, the creation of the Bezos Earth Fund, indicating that he will commit $10 billion initially to support the work of groups fighting the devastating impact…
Seattle-Area Energy-Storage Company Group14 Technologies Gets A Capital Boost
The company is developing advanced battery technology to help fuel the nations electric future
Group14 Technologies Inc., based in Woodinville, located just east of Bothell, has successfully raised $14.4 million as part of an $18.1 million equity offering to advance its efforts to develop a better battery to help power the expanding electric-vehicle and energy-storage market. The company, spun out in 2016 from Seattle materials manufacturing company EnerG2, is…
Seattle Solar-Services Startup Omnidian raises $15M to Fuel Growth
The company plans to use the funding to expand its reach in the multibillion-dollar U.S. solar energy market
Seattle-based Omnidian has raised $15 million through a venture capital funding round that will allow it to expand its solar-energy system performance guarantee program, which offers homeowners and business owners assurance that their expensive solar investments will perform as promised. The funding round was led by New York venture capital firm IA Capital with additional…
Tableau Tool Tackles Seattles Terrible Traffic
Software companys new dashboard will help companies visualize employee travel patterns
The nonprofit Commute Seattle has teamed with software company Tableau and the Seattle and Washington departments of transportation to unveil an interactive online tool that allows employers to assess their employees commuting patterns to aid them in reducing traffic congestion in Seattles downtown. The partnership between the Seattle producer of data-visualization software, Commute Seattle and…
Amazon Web Services Takes Another Step Toward Total Clean-Energy Reliance
Cloud-computing unit of e-commerce giant Amazon invests in three new wind farm projects
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary Seattle-based Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services, announced plans to purchase energy from three new wind farms slated for development in Ireland, Sweden and the United States as part of its goal to power AWSs global infrastructure with 100 percent renewable energy. As of the end of 2018,…
Denny Substation Does More Than Just Send Power to Homes and Businesses
The substation provides a new model for community engagement.
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Substations, the electrical distribution centers that transform voltage from high to low so it can be used in homes and businesses, are typically so utilitarian in design they barely merit a second glance. The South Lake Union 13kV Distribution…