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First Mode files notice to lay off 65 workers at clean-tech facilities in Washington state

Seattle-based First Mode is reporting that 65 of its workers in Washington state are being laid off in a move… Read More

Seattle-area ports vying for $500M in federal funding to boost zero-emissions tech

Seattle-area seaports have teamed up to go after $500 million of federal funding to bring zero-carbon technologies to maritime operations.… Read More

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Clean-tech pioneer First Mode is giving its employees advance warning about layoffs

First Mode, a Seattle-based company that’s concentrating on reducing carbon emissions in mining and other heavy industries, has alerted its… Read More

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First Mode reduces workforce as it revises its vision for lower-emission heavy trucks

Editor’s note: This story and GeekWire’s Layoff Tracker were updated to reflect that 42 U.S.-based employees were laid off. Seattle-based… Read More

‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. In which… Read More

Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

The news: Seattle-based clean-tech startup Sironix Renewables raised $1.47 million in new funding. The tech: Sironix has developed a suite… Read More

Universal Hydrogen airplane during first flight

Hydrogen-powered airplane aces its first experimental flight in central Washington

A prototype aircraft with a hydrogen-fueled powertrain successfully completed an initial 15-minute flight today at Grant County International Airport in… Read More

Seattle startup has a climate friendly solution to the sticky problem of petroleum-based adhesives

Every year, billions of packages are shipped in the U.S. alone. While Amazon and others are trying to shrink the… Read More

Gut check: Seattle Aquarium scientists simulate a whale stomach to test plastic alternatives

You cannot deliberately feed plastic to a whale, even in the name of science. So researchers at the Seattle Aquarium… Read More

Flush with cash: Bezos and big-name celebs get behind tree-free toilet paper startup with $5M

The news: Cloud Paper, the Seattle startup that makes toilet paper and paper towels from bamboo in an effort to… Read More

Maritime Blue wins $500,000 for cleaner transportation as finalist in tech challenge

Maritime Blue, a Washington state public-private coalition focusing on environmentally friendly technologies for the maritime industry, has been awarded $500,000… Read More

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round… Read More

Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

Eager investors keep coming. It’s the Amazon employee who has seen the company’s stock price rise steadily; the former venture… Read More

Sironix raises $1.8M to ramp up production of its plant-based, eco-friendly cleaning chemicals

Seattle-based clean-tech startup Sironix Renewables has raised $645,000 in a seed funding round and $1.15 million from the U.S. Dept.… Read More

In quest to make a better battery, Univ. of Washington students win environmental innovation challenge

A team that wants to make batteries more environmentally friendly won $15,000 at a competition for environmental innovation at the… Read More

Solar Impulse 2 and pilots

‘Impossible Flight’ reveals the turmoil and technology of a solar plane’s global trek

From the outside, it looked as if the Swiss-led Solar Impulse project smoothly soldiered through adversity as its solar-powered plane… Read More

Calendar Picks: Cascadia VR meetup; indie game design lab; and more

Virtual and Augmented Reality is booming in the Pacific Northwest, and on Friday, a host of fun, talented, and geeky… Read More

Amazon Web Services pledges to power data centers with 50% renewable energy by end of 2017

Large-scale data centers consume huge amounts of power, but Amazon Web Services is making an effort to move more of… Read More

Green angels: Clean tech investment leader predicts resurgence as group pumps $3.3M into startups in 2015

Angel investors of the Pacific Northwest collective Element 8, which focuses exclusively on early-stage clean tech companies, put nearly $3.3 million into 17… Read More

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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies

Some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals are forming a new organization known as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec Brian Valentine leaves Ivy Softworks, looks for big impact at food waste startup

Brian Valentine was at the forefront of two of the most important technological waves of the past 30 years, serving… Read More

Wells Fargo awards $1M to environmental startups for new ‘innovation incubator’

Wells Fargo is funding startups that are developing technologies to benefit the environment and today it announced the first set of companies… Read More

Startup lands $11 million to help grocery stores turn food waste into organic fertilizer

Wiserg, a Redmond startup that’s looking to convert food waste into organic fertilizer, just picked up $11 million in fresh… Read More

Bringing big data to food waste: WISErg raises cash to help grocers, restaurants measure what’s being thrown away

Visit any commercial kitchen, restaurant or grocery store and you’ll be struck by the amount of food scraps headed to… Read More

News Brief

Solar photovoltaic startup OneEnergy Renewables raises $5 million

OneEnergy Renewables, a Seattle startup that describes itself as a developer of distributed, utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects, has raised $5 million… Read More

EnergySavvy closes out financing round at $8.25 million

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities implement energy-efficiency programs, has closed out its latest financing round at $8.25 million.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Nova Solar turns skyscraper windows into energy sources

Could the glass on the skyscraper your working in serve as a solar power source? What about the cell phone… Read More

Seattle renewable energy company plans $200M wind farm off Oregon Coast

Winds coming off the Pacific Coast could soon provide energy to Americans thanks to a Seattle company. Principle Power, a renewable… Read More

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla rips 60 Minutes, says ‘Cleantech Crash’ story uses ‘Benghazi-style reporting’

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. In a 2,111-word missive,… Read More

Wind energy forecasting company 3TIER acquired by Vaisala in $14.7 million deal

3TIER, a Seattle company that develops technologies to better understand where to locate wind, solar and hydro projects, has been sold… Read More

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