General Motors Co. has again increased the amount it plans to spend on investing in electric and autonomous vehicles, announcing on Wednesday that it will spend $ 35 billion by 2025 – an increase of $ 8 billion from its November 2020 plan announced previous plan. The company has set itself the goal of bringing … Read more
Bill Gates’ new book, “How to Avoid Climate Catastrophe,” is out Tuesday. He spoke to GeekWire prior to the release. (John Keatley photo) Breakthrough Energy Ventures hit the headlines last month with news that the fund raised an additional $ 1 billion to invest in promising, scalable solutions to climate change. At the same time … Read more
A quiet Microsoft campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) In the first year since aiming to go carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft announced Thursday that it had reduced its carbon footprint by 6% from 11.6 million tons to 10.9 million tons. It was also paid to remove an additional 1.3 million … Read more