Microsoft President Brad Smith is leading the vision of a connected Cascadia
Smith believes that by focusing on climate and clean energy, the Pacific Northwest can become an economic megaregion. Political leaders of B.C., Washington, and Oregon agree.

“If there's one thing that doesn't respect the border, it's carbon,” Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, tells me from across the boardroom table.
It’s mid-September, and the air is thick with smok…