lisa stiffler
@lisa_stiffler
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Loves journalism -- the interviews, telling stories, playing with words, crunching data -- and is currently writing for GeekWire and others.
Seattle diehard
Joined July 2013
Suppliers for major brands like including Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google are still relying heavily on fossil fuels, Greenpeace finds https://t.co/9CoX2v3kkS via @business
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Suppliers for major brands including Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google are still relying heavily on fossil fuels, Greenpeace finds
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I got into journalism because of NPR (still coming for you Terry Gross), so I'm always thrilled to do a radio spot -- and this one's on my favorite topic! Thanks @KUOW. https://t.co/w3efHERoSW
@Breakthrough #BESummit2022 @geekwire
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"Whether it's global health or climate, Gates does tilt pretty optimistic. Other folks who were speaking at the summit kind of balanced that out a little bit."
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Still processing the fire hose of amazing innovation and information shared at the @Breakthrough Energy Summit, still split between hopeful and anxious. Which is probably about right. #BESummit2022
https://t.co/Rvvip8Cnc5 via @GeekWire
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Bill Gates speaks with Rodi Guidero, Breakthrough Energy executive director and managing partner, at the 2022 Breakthrough Energy Summit. (Breakthrough
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News in #womenshealth. Seattle menopause startup @MyGennev was just acquired by United Women's Healthcare. CEO Jill Angelo predicts more women's health mergers will follow, bolstering a significantly underserved -- and valuable -- sector. https://t.co/6lNeOvTnnV via @GeekWire
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Jill Angelo, founder and CEO of Gennev. (Gennev Photo) Florida-based women's health company Unified Women’s Healthcare announced Wednesday that it
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I'd opt to herd cats over U.S. senators any day. Here's how @SenatorCantwell managed to corral bipartisan support for the CHIPS Act, in part by holding classified briefings in secure information rooms called SCIFs (pronounced skiffs). https://t.co/MB4J1ORDiS via @GeekWire
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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a former Seattle tech executive first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, at the GeekWire Summit on Oct. 7, 2022. (GeekWire
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Wow. This was a discouraging, illuminating piece.
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As a Black man and a senior CDC scientist, William L. Jeffries IV knows a lot about health inequities and infectious diseases in America. Still, it took visits to 3 doctors — and a desperate call to...
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What's the story with Seattle's weird fall weather? I talked to @NWSSeattle and the Wash. state climatologist and @UW researcher to find out. https://t.co/9RizT0Xn4z via @GeekWire
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A smokey September sunset from Seattle's unusually dry summer and fall. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle's identity has been synonymous with
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I was thrilled to join this year's GeekWire Summit to talk about how we’re boosting the future of U.S. innovation with the bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act! #2022GWSummit
GeekWire Summit 2022 recap: Tech and civic leaders share insights and vision for the future #2022GWSummit
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Here's a trend I like: smart tech folks applying their chops to climate tech. In this case, a Microsoft "lifer" launching an EV charging startup. https://t.co/YkAhGFEjMZ via @GeekWire @vertuelab #EVs
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Some of the FlexCharging team convened for a meeting in Las Vegas in June. Employees, from left to right: Tyler Phillipi, Harold Shin, David Klein, CEO
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Wildfires are awful. Maybe there's comfort in startup @DroneSeed, which is using drones, LIDAR & other tech to make reforestation faster & more efficient. Co. has funding from @Benioff, @tobi, @socialcapital, @sevensevensix. https://t.co/hdi6X8Oi16 via @GeekWire #reforestation
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A DroneSeed employee oversees the deployment of two drones above a burn site. (DroneSeed Photo) A swarm of giant drones navigates a scorched moonscape,
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The hook for this story: a simulated whale gut for testing plastics. The real impact: raising awareness about the gnarliness of single-use plastics and the need to develop biodegradable, marine-safe alternatives. https://t.co/XfmbrX7pbp via @GeekWire @SeattleAquarium @TOMFORD
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Gray whales live throughout the North Pacific. This whale was photographed in San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico. (Ryan Harvey via Creative Commons) You cannot
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I'm fascinated by nuclear power. My dad worked at the Hanford site in the 1960s and it's interesting to see the sector's resurgence. I chatted w/ @TerraPower's CFO to hear what's working & what challenges they face. https://t.co/ilkNZuBZYO via @GeekWire @BillGates #NuclearEnergy
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An artist’s conception shows the layout for the Natrium reactor demonstration project in Kemmerer, Wyo. (TerraPower Illustration) Could we be witnessing
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It's so cool when researchers harness our bodies' own tiny biomachines to improve health. Seattle's @immusoft is attempting just that with B cells to treat rare genetic diseases. They've received FDA approval for clinical trials. https://t.co/dt5dvuV70y via @GeekWire #GeneTherapy
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Immusoft's steps to delivering a treatment using engineered B cells. (Screen grab from Immusoft's website) Seattle biotech startup Immusoft has received
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Hydrogen fuel will be a key player in solving the climate crisis -- do you understand how it works?! I break down the tech and the many inroads that hydrogen has already made in the PacNW. https://t.co/5kVZgX80PQ via @GeekWire @WAStateCommerce @PNNLab @WSUNews #cleanenergy
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A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in this Anglo American haul truck at their platinum
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Can you use AI to optimize greenhouse operations a continent away? Award winning lettuces suggest the answer is a solid yes. https://t.co/omx4BUbN66 via @GeekWire @KoidraInc @Microsoft #agtech
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Koidra's Chief Business Officer Soojung Smith (left) and Kenneth Tran, founder, CEO and chief technology officer, outside of their Seattle WeWork office.
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I admit to being skeptical when someone tells me tech is helping fix homelessness. So it was super interesting to learn about the powerful use of data analysis by @AWayHomeWA to aid the state's youth. @tableau
https://t.co/69HaiBWDDx via @GeekWire
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The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane's significant decline in youth and young adult
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My elderly dad recently began requiring in-home care, I was shocked at the absence of online resources. There are a lot of old olds - who is meeting their needs? Will @PivotalVentures and partners be able to make a difference? https://t.co/zpckmr2NJF via @GeekWire
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As part of its Move Care Forward campaign, Pivotal Ventures is releasing new data on U.S. caregivers and highlighting some of their stories, including
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It was an honor to share @tomalberg's story via GeekWire following his death at age 82. https://t.co/6MvoGEQSmL via @GeekWire
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There is something interesting about @Microsoft serving as a guinea pig test subject for new climate tech, in this case it's hydrogen fuel cells powering data centers. https://t.co/7D6V3G5UZA via @GeekWire
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Hannah Baldwin, an electrical engineer for the high-power stationary group at Plug Power, inspects a fuel cell in the generator built in New York in
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OR startup The Cool Down wants to stoke interest in climate by creating first U.S. "mainstream climate brand.” While policy is a more important lever, it focuses on consumers, which co-founders say is a smart strategy to build engagement. https://t.co/fDSQxV7eUn via @GeekWire
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From left: The Cool Down co-founders Dave Finocchio, CEO, and Chief Content Officer Anna Robertson. (TCD Photos) Dave Finocchio, co-founder and CEO of the
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