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Innovation vs. climate change: Introducing ‘Positive Charge,’ a new podcast from GeekWire

Most climate news feels hopeless. Positive Charge, a new podcast from GeekWire, profiles the scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs betting that technology can still tip the balance — starting with episodes on “forever chemicals” and the race for fusion power. Read More

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Investing in Climate: The Year of the CleanTech IPO (Seattle Tech Week)

A Seattle Tech Week conversation at the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub on climate investing in what organizers call the year… Read More

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Climate Tech Showcase | E8 (Seattle Tech Week)

E8 hosts “I Just Made 100x in Climate Tech,” a candid conversation at the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub with investors… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Sustainable Innovation finalists tackle energy, fashion and farming

The Sustainable Innovation Award finalists this year are energy companies Helion, OCOChem and TerraPower; fashion recycler Ravel; and agtech startup IUNU. Read More

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Uncommon Thinkers: Hope for the future from our 2025 honorees

Recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala, this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast spotlights the 2025 Uncommon Thinkers — innovators working on space, biology, AI, environmental cleanup, and the future of social media. Read More

Climate tech companies dominate PNW funding with the three biggest investment rounds in 2025

The three biggest investments so far this year in Pacific Northwest companies have gone to businesses working to decarbonize the… Read More

Aquagga takes top prize at PNW Climate Week event for its battle against ‘forever chemicals’

Six early-stage climate and deep-tech startups faced off at a pitch contest and happy hour in Seattle as part of… Read More

‘Talent drives everything’: Vinod Khosla’s contrarian take on America’s AI and climate challenges

The biggest threat to America’s competitiveness in artificial intelligence and climate tech isn’t the Trump administration’s cuts to renewable power… Read More

Trump bill’s clean energy cuts spark outcry from climate tech industry and Washington leaders

As Congress wrestles over the deeply polarizing domestic policy bill championed by President Trump, Washington state leaders and entrepreneurs are… Read More

Bill Gates’ pledge to give 99% of wealth to global health foundation could leave climate in the cold

Bill Gates’ announcement last week that he would give 99% of his wealth to the Gates Foundation was a shot… Read More

‘YIMBY AI’ wins Seattle climate hackathon with idea to support development of backyard units

Fourteen teams assembled this week to compete in a Seattle climate hackathon and the chance to win a share of… Read More

Climate-focused venture firm Stepchange raises $7M to back startups with ‘immediate’ impact

Seattle-based venture firm Stepchange announced that it closed its first fund, raising $7 million to invest in climate-focused startups. The… Read More

OCOchem prepares to flip the switch on tech for turning captured CO2 into industrial chemicals

OCOchem, a startup turning captured carbon dioxide into a valuable industrial chemical, is completing construction of its pilot plant in… Read More

‘Layoffs and pain’: Frozen federal funding batters clean energy and climate efforts

President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of… Read More

CarbonQuest partners with Icelandic venture to boost deployment of carbon capture and storage

Spokane, Wash.-based startup CarbonQuest announced a partnership with Iceland-based Carbfix, a global leader in carbon storage, to team up in… Read More

Philanthropy vet launches startup to help people ‘get smart’ about climate investing and giving

President-elect Donald Trump is proposing fossil fuel champions for U.S. leadership roles. New research shows the world is off the… Read More

Your startup builds clean energy tech, but Trump loves fossil fuels – here are some keys to survival

President-elect Donald Trump is a champion of fossil fuels and calls President Biden’s New-Deal style programs for battling climate change… Read More

Clean tech outlook: How investors are strategizing given Trump’s climate antagonism

Over the past five years, growth in climate tech has been so prolific that it has drawn comparisons to the… Read More

Does ‘Carbon Sound’ have a ring to it? How Seattle area can become the Silicon Valley of climate tech

Silicon Valley is recognized globally as *the* tech hub and is so iconic that the region itself essentially co-starred in… Read More

Seattle’s APiJET lands $4.5M grant from the FAA to enhance tool for fuel efficient flights

APiJET, a Seattle-based aviation data analytics company, has landed a $4.5 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The startup… Read More

Canadian carbon capture and removal company lands up to $100M to speed deployment

Svante, a carbon capture and removal company based in British Columbia, is receiving up to $100 million to speed the… Read More

CarbonQuest, a carbon capture startup that serves industrial sites, raises cash for expansion

Spokane, Wash.-based startup CarbonQuest raised new capital to expand the reach of its carbon capturing devices. The cash is coming… Read More

LevelTen lands $65M from Microsoft, Google to expand clean energy marketplace services

Seattle-based LevelTen Energy, a startup facilitating the deployment of clean energy projects, raised a $65 million Series D round from… Read More

Election impact on climate efforts is top of mind at first-ever Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle

More than 4,500 climate tech investors, government officials, tech leaders, activists, artists and researchers from around the world are gathering… Read More

The $120 trillion opportunity that has TPG’s Jim Coulter excited about climate investing 

Jim Coulter, founding partner, executive chair and director for the investment firm TPG, thinks a little more optimism is warranted… Read More

This climate tech leader wants startups to solve urgent needs — and is raising a fund to help them

Aina Abiodun is ready for the climate tech sector to recognize that communities everywhere are already experiencing the challenging impacts… Read More

Meet Gillian Dohrn, GeekWire’s ocean-plunging and science-loving climate tech intern

The GeekWire team is excited to introduce Gillian Dohrn, our first Etzioni Intern in Climate Tech Journalism. Readers may have… Read More

Meet the climate startup helping other climate startups fund their ventures with lower cost loans

Government grants and publicly funded projects have been a boon to climate tech and clean energy businesses. But while companies… Read More

Climate tech funding dip poses threat for capital-intensive startups — but it’s not time to panic

In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech, Alan Neuhauser of Axios kicked off the questions by asking… Read More

This Spokane startup catches carbon dioxide at the source, before it escapes to the environment

CarbonQuest wants to take a bite out of carbon emissions at its source — before the greenhouse gases escape into… Read More

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