SB Profiles
Too Interwoven to Fail?
Seattle Steam CEO Stan Gentsees the future of district-wide energy to be closely intertwined withsustainability. Against the backdrop of luxury hotels, condos and high-riseoffice buildings, the billowing plumes of smoke from Seattle Steam Co.shulking industrial plant on Western Avenue seem out of place. But given itspurposeto make steam and hot water for 200 downtown and…
A Greener Fuel… and a Greener Future?
The Pacific Northwest is blessed with a profusion ofhydroelectric power and a burgeoning wind energy industry. As a result,Washington residents pay some of the lowest electric rates in the UnitedStates. But to respond to increasing demand, the area needs newsources of energy. Enter shale gas, a form of natural gas that is embedded inshale formations…
From Eggs to I Do
Wilcox Family Farms CEOLinda Thomas is working with the new generation of owners, including AndyWilcox (right), to develop new sources of revenue. When Judson Wilcox traded his Seattle home for a farm in ruralRoy, Wash., in 1909, he couldn’t have imagined the site would one day be usedto host weddings and events. Neither could he…
Sea Breeze
Seattle-based startup Principle Power Inc., a company working to improve offshore wind energy, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop the company’s WindFloat platform, an innovative support structure for large offshore wind turbines. Principle Power will partner with the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado and Berkeley, Calif.-based…
Bright Idea: Seeing the Light
Move over, Edison. Seattle-based Vu1 Corp. has developed a new type of energy-efficient light bulb to replace the 129-year-old incandescent design. And just in time for a planned phase-out of energy-wasting, short-lived incandescent bulbs starting in 2012. When they launch onto the market in mid-2010, Vu1’s electron stimulated luminescence (ESL) bulbs are expected to be…
The Man Who Saved Washington Wine
Ted Baseler has been CEOof Ste. Michelle for eight yearsand in the companys leadership for a quarter of a century. In that time he hasbrought the wine worlds attention to Washington state. Five years ago, on a stunningly clear night in rural easternWashington, the burgeoning wine industry that dots the rolling hills of theWalla Walla…
Cover Profile: Tom O’Keefe, CEO of Tully’s Coffee
How could that be? How can a company like Tullys not prosper? We decided to try to unravel the enigma that is Tom OKeefe. We wanted to figure out how one runs a retail business for 16 years and raises more than $60 million to grow the company without ever showing a quarterly profit from…
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