Even with all of these positive developments in innovation and funding, is it reasonable to become sustainable as a mega region?

I will go back to Bill Gates' line, daunting but hopeful.

I absolutely believe that's true. I'll go back to the other night with the Mariners.

When they thought they were losing that game in the bottom of the night, two out, seven, six,

two home runs, daunting, but hopeful. That's who we are. We can do that. I love that the Mariners

are the inspiration and not the Broncos. Good call. Welcome to Geekwire.

I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop.

We're coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in tech, business, and innovation.

What happens here matters everywhere.

And every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting tech and business stories in the news. And this week we are talking about the climate. Our guest is

former Washington State Governor Chris Gregor. She is the CEO of Challenge Seattle and the co-chair

of the Steering Committee for the Cascadia Innovation Corridor, a cross-border initiative that

brings together

leaders from Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia. This week, she led the group's

Cascadia 2050 Vision Conference, focusing on climate action. Governor Greg Guar, it's great to

have you here. Thank you. It's good to be here. I attended this conference in Blaine, Washington, and it was really

remarkable to see everyone come together, not just to talk about the challenge of the climate,

but to discuss and prepare to take concrete steps. In fact, there are 14 of them that were

presented in a report that went out before the event.

What were your key takeaways from this event in terms of what this group and others can do as next steps?

So, you know, Todd, it's interesting.

If you look at climate, it's a very large and complex issue. And so we set out to really

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