Study: Online grocery delivery is more environmentally-friendly than driving to the store

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Online grocery shopping just isn’t for couch potatoes or those folks who are too busy to get to the grocery store. New research from the University of Washington finds that relying on an online grocery delivery service like Amazon Fresh or Safeway is actually far more environmentally-friendly than jumping in the car and heading to… Read More…

Happy Earth Day: These Seattle startups are helping us go green

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Today is the day to celebrate the lush green Earth and do what we can to keep it fresh. How does Earth Day relate to Seattle’s startups? The kind folks over at WhitePages show us with a neat little infographic below. They looked at four local companies that, by way of their business models, are saving… Read More…

PolyDrop turns paint into conductive coatings, wins $10K at UW environmental challenge

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College students are saving the world. Well, maybe not all of them. But the teams that participated in last week’s Environmental Innovation Challenge at the University of Washington are certainly impressive by our standards. Teams from universities and colleges around the Northwest congregated at the UW to pitch their innovations that addressed energy, urban agriculture,… Read More…

We’ve got a double helix bridge, but Taipei is building a double helix skyscraper

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Seattle residents are familiar with the double helix pedestrian bridge, connecting Elliott Avenue with the Amgen campus to the west. But now check this out. Construction just started in Taipei on a 20-story building called Agora Garden that has two sections that intersect much like the double helix, the fundamental structure of DNA. But there’s… Read More…

How this UW grad left the coding world and created an Upstart-funded game company

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The path to the gaming world has been an interesting one for recent University of Washington grad Vincent Lucero. See, Lucero has always had a passion for technology. He was a Hewlett Packard Scholar in high school and landed a job with Xbox Live at Microsoft during college. But soon enough, Lucero knew he no longer wanted to spend his… Read More…

Clean out your desk and attic: It’s battery recycling day in Seattle

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Got some old batteries laying around the house or office. Well, here’s your chance to get rid of them in an environmentally-friendly way. Today is the City of Seattle’s first-ever Battery Recycling Day, with residents encouraged to take old batteries found in cellphones, laptops and cordless power tools to Seattle Center’s International Fountain until 6 p.m…. Read More…

Geek of the Week: Artefact’s Fernd van Engelen on design, inspiration and water bottles

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 Our latest Geek of the Week is looking to change the world, one water bottle at a time. Product designer Fernd van Engelen, industrial design leader at the Seattle-based firm Artefact, is raising funds on Kickstarter for a project called 999Bottles, aiming to manufacture thousands of stainless steel bottles with dials for tracking the number… Read More…

Microsoft will charge its divisions a ‘carbon fee’ in new environmental push

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 Microsoft says it will be carbon neutral for the first time in its upcoming fiscal year, beginning July 1 — reducing its carbon emissions as much as possible and buying carbon credits to make up the difference. It’s not uncommon for companies to commit to carbon neutrality, but Microsoft’s plan comes with a twist designed… Read More…