The Emerald City has a legacy of environmental leadership and bold climate action. Under the leadership of Mayor Bruce Harrell, Seattle was recognized by C40 Cities and Bloomberg Philanthropies for efforts to advance community-driven climate action through the Green New Deal. It was also selected as a “role model city” for the United Nations Environment Program’s Generation Restoration initiative to share best practices on improving urban habitat and ecosystems. The City of Seattle takes a community-centered approach to meet the scale of the climate crisis by growing Seattle's equitable clean energy economy, ensuring a just transition away from fossil fuels, and investing in healthy, resilient, and well-connected communities.
The CleanTech Alliance is a non-profit trade association that exists to accelerate the adoption of clean energy and climate technology. We represent over 1,000 member organizations spanning 17 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, and facilitates collaboration on policy, advocacy, tech transfer and commercialization, community outreach, project siting, workforce development, and economic development.
Greater Seattle Partners (GSP) is a public-private partnership that leads regional economic development through global business attraction, site selection and investment and trade opportunities in the greater Seattle region.
Northwest Event Show (NWES) is the premier gathering for event professionals in the Pacific Northwest, offering an unparalleled platform for networking, learning, and innovation. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, NWES connects thousands of industry leaders and pioneers, facilitating the exchange of ideas and strategies to advance the event planning sector. With a commitment to sustainability and community, NWES embodies the spirit of environmental responsibility and continuous professional growth, making it a cornerstone event for those looking to shape the future of events.
Pacific Northwest Climate Week is a community-powered event series that unites climate innovators, thought leaders, and enthusiasts. Join us as we shine a spotlight on the Pacific Northwest, renowned as a global hub of climate innovations.
The Seattle Metro Chamber is the largest and most diverse business association in the region representing 2,500 member companies and a workforce of about 750,000.
Seattle Good Business Network unites businesses and community partners around shared social and environmental values by connecting them to opportunities, resources, and each other.
Seattle University, founded in 1891, is a Jesuit, Catholic university located on 55 acres at the intersection of Seattle’s thriving Capitol Hill and First Hill neighborhoods—in the heart of one of the most innovative cities in the world. Nearly 7,200 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs across more than 120 programs.
At Aigen, we're building a future with no harmful chemicals in our food, where farmers thrive, communities prosper, and the planet flourishes.
With roots in farming, electric vehicles, robotics and impact investing, Rich Wurden and Kenny Lee founded Aigen in 2020 to connect farmers to breakthrough technologies, decarbonize agriculture, and improve human and planetary health. Aigen's Element robotic fleet can autonomously navigate, weed, and analyze row crops without any chemicals or diesel fuel. Offered as a service and powered 100% by solar and wind, Aigen's vehicles reduce farmers' workload and their reliance on fossil fuels, while increasing their crop and soil health.
Banyu Carbon is developing a simple, light-driven process to remove CO2 from the surface ocean while generating solar electricity. It is projected to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide at a far lower cost than best-in-class competing approaches like direct air capture. Our first 360 tons of permanently stored CO2 has been pre-purchased by Stripe, Shopify, and H&M as part of a Frontier contract. We closed an oversubscribed $6.5M Seed round with a great group of investors including United Airline Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, Grantham Foundation, ReGen, Propeller, and Carbon Removal Partners. We were recently featured in Bloomberg, Axios, and GeekWire, and appeared on OpenAir-ThisIsCDR and Carbon Removal Newsroom podcasts.
Muir AI empowers companies to understand their supply chains, improve resilience, and reduce emissions. Companies often make critical decisions with limited insight, leading to higher costs and unmet sustainability goals. Muir's AI provides actionable insights, identifies better sourcing opportunities, enhances supplier negotiations, and enables scaled emission reductions.
Sustainable Drinkware Partner
r.World's number one objective is to be the most sustainable reuse company in America both from an environmental and a social justice perspective. We build industrial wash hubs in economic development zones and we hire second chance folks in order to provide jobs and missions that folks can get behind and feel good about. We partner with Ecolab who provides our industrial wash machines which are calibrated to use the least amount of energy, water and chemicals. And we provide environmental impact reporting to our Customers that show the net impact of waste diversion, water, CO2, energy and crude oil savings after accounting for the r.World water use, CO2 for deliveries and pick-ups, etc.
Sweet Farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. We must first understand how these pieces are connected within our complicated food web before we can tackle climate change at its core. By joining climate education, regenerative agriculture, farm animal rescue, and the sustainable technology that is disrupting agriculture and food production, Sweet Farm is redefining sanctuary.