NY Climate Tech: Sep 16 - Sep 22

The Film Festival is here! Also: climate resilience, green careers, mobilizing women in entrepreneurship, an opening party for climate week, accelerators, and more

Hi friends,

Climate Week is almost here, and our final guide will be out soon! But that’s no reason to sleep on all the amazing things happening this week.

First, if you haven’t gotten them yet, buy your tickets today for the 🎬 Climate Film Festival! Three screenings are already sold out. If you’re looking for a guide, look no further. We don’t have festival passes for sale this year, so you’ll need to get tickets for each screening.

Here are some picks for the festival (read on for the full list):

• 🛢️ VALVE TURNERS: World Premiere, gripping story of a group of activists as they shut down the five major pipelines bringing oil from Canada to the US.

• 🐋 One with the Whale: A heartwarming yet thrilling story of an indigenous Alaskan family’s struggle to find a foothold in both the ancient and modern world.

• 🔥 Hot Takes: Climate Comedy: 8 amazing comedians on screen & in person, including NYC’s own Rollie Williams+ Nicole Conlan from the Daily Show

In the meantime, there’s no shortage of events this week! Here are our picks:

• Tomorrow, join GreenHome NYC in Midtown for 🌇 Monthly Forum: Bolstering Climate Resilience in NYC

• Thursday, you have the power at 👷‍♀️ Powering the Future: A Green Skills Workforce Summit and ☀️ Power Up Your Career: Brooklyn SolarWorks Job Fair

• Friday, our must-attend event for the week: 🙋‍♀️ WE Connect Event: Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship

• Follow up on Friday with the 🎉 Opening Party to Climate Week at Strong Rope Brewery: Fri, Sep 20

We also have updated Opportunities and Community Shoutouts below.

As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.

Cheers,

Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team

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This Week’s Events

• 🌆 Decarbonizing NYC Offices: Implementing Forward-Thinking Fit-Outs: Tue, Sep 17

• 📈 Sustainable Growth New York: Tue, Sep 17

• 🌬️ Empire Wind's "Opportunity in Action": Tue, Sep 17

• 🌇 Monthly Forum: Bolstering Climate Resilience in NYC: Tue, Sep 17

• 🌿 Hedgework Eco Data Workshop: Thu, Sep 19

• 🍽️ Sustainably Social: A Climate Week Exclusive Dinner: Thu, Sep 19

• ✊ Fighting the Power: Stories of Resistance in the Climate Crisis: Thu, Sep 19

• 👷‍♀️ Powering the Future: A Green Skills Workforce Summit: Thu, Sep 19

• ☀️ Power Up Your Career: Brooklyn SolarWorks Job Fair: Fri, Sep 20

• 🙋‍♀️ WE Connect Event: Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship III: Fri, Sep 20

• 🎉 Opening Party to Climate Week at Strong Rope Brewery: Fri, Sep 20

• ✍️ Climate Writing Club: Sat, Sep 21

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The Climate Film Festival

Friday

• 🦒 [SOLD OUT] Opening Night: Searching for Amani

Saturday

• 👩🏾‍🌾 Farming While Black + ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek): Restoring the land

• 👩‍🔬 Science & Solutions: Coral, seaweed, parasites, and stories of innovation

• 🎨 Arts X Climate: Inspiration and the power of art

• 🗽 [SOLD OUT] Emergent City: Behind-the-scenes of NYC’s development

• 🌊 Dive in, Rise Up: Environmental Justice & Water, sponsored by Climate Power: Activism and impact

• ❄️ CANARY: Glaciers, science, adventure

• 😱 Trash, Terror, & Tomorrow: Eco-Anxiety at the Brink: Narrative shorts

• ⛈️ The Here Now Project: US Premiere, the harrowing, real-life impact of climate

• 🌎 Earth II: The greatest climate action movie never made

• 🛢️ VALVE TURNERS: World Premiere, gripping IRL story of coordinated action

Sunday

• 🌇 An Optimist's Guide to the Planet + Freetown: Cooling a City: Buildings!

• 🌐 Young Voices, Global Perspectives: Narrative and doc shorts around the world

• 🌾 Common Ground, sponsored by Envest and Sound Future: Regenerative agriculture with some Hollywood wattage

• ✊ Power Shift: Defying Fossil Fuels: Gripping, inspiring stories of activists

• 🤖 The Wild Robot: Special screening of DreamWorks’ new film

• 🐋 One with the Whale: Coming of age as an indigenous hunter in Alaska

• 🚀 Experimental Climate Shorts: stop-motion, virtual worlds, generative AI, +more

• 🌳 [SOLD OUT] Closing Feature: Hollow Tree, sponsored by CEEZER: Learning climate in Louisiana

• 🔥 Hot Takes: Climate Comedy: 7 amazing comedians on screen + in person

• ⛰️ Weight of Water + Mountain Man: Stories from the Himalayas

CFF map by the astonishingly talented Nicole Kelner

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🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms

Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!

• Climate startups looking to raise

• Climate talent looking to transition

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Opportunities

🏗️ Buildings Tech Lab: Sept 20

Each year, the Buildings Tech Lab will engage with NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) leadership and staff to develop priority problem statements to improve agency operations and services. Our proven process, modeled on the Partnership Fund’s Transit Tech Lab and Environmental Tech Lab, has received strong endorsement from both the startups and public servants we work with.

🌆 TMF Sustainable Cities Challenge: Sept 30

Calling all mobility startups! The Toyota Mobility Foundation has announced The Sustainable Cities Challenge, offering up to $3 million in funding to bring critical mobility innovations to market in three key cities: Detroit, Varanasi, and Venice. Learn about the challenges below Transforming Freight in Detroit, USA: Seeking solutions that decrease fossil fuel use and reduce costs in Detroit’s Eastern Market Partnership. Enter by September 12, 2024. Innovating Crowd Flow in Varanasi, India: Seeking data-driven solutions for safer and more accessible crowded areas in Kashi. Enter by September 5, 2024. Embracing Sustainable Mobility in Venice, Italy: Seeking solutions to increase low and zero-carbon transport modes. Enter by September 30, 2024.

⚖️ Climate Justice Fellowship Plus Program: Oct 1

NYSERDA, with support from U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York's 14th congressional district, is pleased to announce the Climate Justice Fellowship Plus Program is now available and is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Climate Justice Fellowship Plus Program is a $3 million pilot program to advance climate justice in the Bronx and Queens.

👩‍🔬 Activate Fellowship: Oct 23

Activate transforms scientists and engineers into founders, empowering them to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. The two-year Activate Fellowship provides early-stage science entrepreneurs with funding, technical resources, and unparalleled support from a network of scientists, engineers, investors, commercial partners, and fellow entrepreneurs.

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Community Shoutouts

🌱 Climate Vine

Hey everyone! Quick shoutout about Climate Vine, a curated membership community to accelerate your impact. Great mix of folks in tech, corporate, government, science, and activism looking to collaborate. Check out upcoming public events here & learn more about their membership and apply for the October 9th onboarding.

🌐 SOSV Climate Tech Summit

The SOSV Climate Tech Summit (October 14-18) is a free, virtual and global event that features the top technologists, researchers, founders, investors, and policy makers working on the frontiers of climate innovation. Registration is open and free.

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Upcoming Events

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This Week in Depth

🌆 Decarbonizing NYC Offices: Implementing Forward-Thinking Fit-Outs

When: Tuesday, Sept. 17 from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM

Where: Building Energy Exchange

Through a moderated panel discussion, industry experts will provide insights into how commercial building owners, tenants, and consultants can move away from inefficient, traditional practices to create more sustainable, efficient, and healthy workplaces. Attendees will gain practical advice on implementing effective decarbonization strategies and maximizing energy savings throughout the leasing cycle.

📈 Sustainable Growth New York

When: Tuesday, September 17 · 6 - 10:30pm EDT

Where: Mēdüzā Mediterrania, 657 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014

Join us at Sustainable Growth New York for a night of learning and networking to promote eco-friendly practices and business development. It's our pleasure to welcome you to an intimate gathering of Marketing & NPD teams, as well as brand founders and CEOs for an evening of discussions and insights that drive authentic, sustainable growth and enhance customer retention for your business.

🌬️ Empire Wind's "Opportunity in Action"

When: Tuesday, September 17 · 8:30am - 2pm EDT

Where: Camp David, 237 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Join Equinor and Empire Wind for a Day of Opportunity in Action for Minority/Women/Veteran- Owned Small Businesses. Learn and network in Sunset Park—home to Equinor’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), now under construction. SBMT will serve as the offshore wind hub for the Empire Wind project. When completed, Empire Wind will connect directly into the NYC grid to power 500,000+ New York homes.

🌇 Monthly Forum: Bolstering Climate Resilience in NYC

When: Tuesday, September 17 from 6:15PM - 8:00PM

Where: Fujitsu AirStage, 1450 Broadway - 42nd Floor

How prepared is New York City to handle the complexities of climate change, including flooding? Over a decade after Hurricane Sandy, the city continues to face challenges from storms that inundate streets and tunnels and cause power outages. This discussion will explore how rising sea levels threaten coastal areas, examine the progress of key projects like Living Breakwaters and review the risks associated with heavy rainfall. We'll also delve into potential solutions through green infrastructure and consider the environmental and economic consequences of not taking proactive measures.

🌿 Hedgework Eco Data Workshop

When: Thursday, September 19 · 1 - 2:30pm EDT

Where: Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Inspired by Hedgework, one of the Yard’s 2024 public art installations, join co-creator Mark Shepard for an interactive eco data workshop. Mark will take participants inside the data collected by the hedge and discuss the skills needed to document and interpret data that can be applied through varied avenues from policymaking to art creation. As part of the group discussion, participants will explore environmental concerns and the power of data to help understand our impact on the environment. The culminating activity will include co-designing a speculative data collection system, which will support further conversation about ways that professionals working within sustainability and the green economy can leverage data to drive decision-making.

🍽️ Sustainably Social: A Climate Week Exclusive Dinner

When: Thursday, Sep 19 from 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Where: tán, New York, NY

​​Join us on September 19th for an exclusive executive dinner to kick off Climate Week NYC, where climate experts, corporate titans, and impact investors will delve into emerging climate policies and inclusive investment strategies in climate and finance.

✊ Fighting the Power: Stories of Resistance in the Climate Crisis

When: Thursday, September 19 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT

Where: Adler Hall at The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th Street, New York, NY 10023

Join environmental lawyer Steven Donziger in conversation with non-violent direct-action organizers and participants on the urgent need for sustained disruption against the biggest backers of the fossil fuel industry. Panelists include organizers and participants in Summer of Heat, the extraordinary, months-long campaign targeting Citibank for their continuing support of fossil fuel financing. Drawing upon his own experiences with Chevron, Steven will elicit personal stories of courage and non-violent civil disobedience on a grand scale, street theater, playful storytelling, intergenerational climate activism and the strategic vision intended to pressure specific targets to end the era of fossil fuels.

👷‍♀️ Powering the Future: A Green Skills Workforce Summit

When: Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 8AM to 2PM

Where: Building 77, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Join us at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as we convene workforce development practitioners around New York City to discuss emerging green skill needs, training pathways, and best practices in building a dynamic and productive workforce in wind, electrification, and decarbonization.

☀️ Power Up Your Career: Brooklyn SolarWorks Job Fair

When: Friday, September 20 · 2 - 5pm EDT

Where: Brooklyn SolarWorks, 200 6th Street 3G, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Come learn about our mission, explore career opportunities, and discover how you can contribute to a greener future. Whether you’re experienced in solar energy or new to the field, we want to meet you! Our managers will be available for onsite interviews. We are an equal employment opportunity company seeking passionate and committed green energy enthusiast.

🙋‍♀️ WE Connect Event: Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship III

When: Friday, September 20 · 1:30 - 4pm EDT

Where: 1 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10006

Women Entrepreneurship New York City (WE NYC)is committed to promoting diverse women's leadership in the green economy ecosystem with a particular focus on women-centered groups. This large event will bring together investors, aspiring and early-stage women and minority entrepreneurs, corporations, accelerators and incubators, policy-makers, and thought leaders to discuss how we can build inclusive communities, and advance economic inclusion in the emerging green economy spaces. The event will feature prominent speakers from different women-centered community groups and also provide speed networking style mentorship opportunities to attendees. Our goal is to emphasize the potential of increasing access to diverse women's businesses in the green economy.

🎉 Opening Party to Climate Week at Strong Rope Brewery

When: Friday, September 20 · 6:30 - 9:30pm EDT

Where: Strong Rope Brewery Red Hook, 185 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Join us to celebrate and connect the work being done all over the city to ensure a liveable NYC future. Catch the sunset on the shoreline of climate vulnerable and resilient Red Hook with pop-up post-apocalyptic tunes from FunkRust Brassband. With the launch of Strong Rope's new Imagined Futures brew, highlighting organic NY grain and benifiting 5 climate luminaries and a special conversation between longtime public housing advocate Karen Blondel and environmental journalist Yessenia Funes.

✍️ Climate Writing Club

When: Saturday, September 21 from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Where: Upper West Side

​Climate Writing Club connects and supports New Yorkers exploring topics within climate & sustainability through writing. ​​​We meet uptown once a week on Saturday mornings to write about climate together — from fiction to newsletters to academic papers to journaling and everything in between.

The Great Climate Film Fest Guide

Tickets are going fast! What to watch, how to fest, and what to expect.

Hi all,

The inaugural Climate Film Festival is almost here! With almost forty events during the opening weekend of Climate Week NYC, it may be a little overwhelming. Luckily, we’re here to help!

Dive into this guide for:

• 🎬 What to Watch

• 🎉 How to Fest

And finally, be sure to get tickets today! They’re going fast, and we expect to only have waitlist available at the door. Again this is your PSA: if you want to attend the festival, reserve your spot now!

See you at the movies,
Alec

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What to Watch

We’re thrilled to showcase 60+ films across genres and formats. Whether you’re looking for a major studio feature, a riveting indie documentary, or a boundary-defying short, you’ll find it at CFF. It can be hard to know what to choose, so let’s start with a simple question:

What’re you in the mood for?

• For gripping US and world premieres that set the stakes, catch our Saturday centerpiece ⛈️ The Here Now Project and 🛢️ VALVE TURNERS.

• For inspiration and the power of art, be sure to get tickets for 🎨 Arts X Climate and DreamWorks’ 🤖 The Wild Robot.

• For stunning films about coming of age in a changing world, don’t miss the chance to see 🐋 One with the Whale and 🌳 Hollow Tree.

• For something fun and different, grab tickets for 🌎 Earth II, 👩‍🚀 Experimental Climate Shorts, and 🔥 Hot Takes: Climate Comedy.

• For stories of activism and grassroots impact, watch 🗽 Emergent City, 💧 Dive in, Rise Up: Environmental Justice & Water, and ✊ Power Shift: Defying Fossil Fuels.

• For glaciers, coral, seaweed, parasites, and stories of innovation, start the weekend off with 👩‍🔬 Science & Solutions, 🧊 CANARY, and 🏙️ An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet + Freetown: Cooling a City.

• For foodies, get tickets for 👩🏾‍🌾 Farming While Black & ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) and 🌾 Common Ground.

• For global perspectives across genres, plan on 😱 Trash, Terror, & Tomorrow: Eco-Anxiety at the Brink, 🌏 Young Voices, Global Perspectives, and 🏔️ The Weight of Water: The Human Cost of Climate Crisis & Mountain Man.

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Gripping US and World Premieres

• ⛈️ The Here Now Project (US Premiere, Sat. 9/21 at 6:15pm) is the Centerpiece screening at CFF. Edited together from thousands of hours of social media footage, The Here Now Project is a portrait of the climate disasters of 2021 through the eyes, cameras, and phones of those who experienced it. At once epic and intimate, the film carries an urgent message: we’re all in this, together.

• 🛢️ VALVE TURNERS (World Premiere, Sat. 9/21 at 8:30pm) follows a group of activists through an act of civil disobedience as they shut down the five major pipelines bringing oil from Canada to the US. VALVE TURNERS is gripping, a real-life How to Blow Up a Pipeline, tracking the action and courtroom drama with cinema verité footage in order to ask: at what point should citizens take action in their own communities?

Find Inspiration

• 🎨 Arts X Climate (9/21 at 12:45pm) features visionary creators responding to the climate crisis through art. These artists record the soundscapes of nature, paint with pollution, repurpose waste, and illustrate our impact. These beautiful, engaging films show how art can help heal the planet. A stunning program of shorts!

• 🤖 The Wild Robot (9/22 at 2:00pm) brings climate themes into a beautifully animated, epic story of a robot crash landing on an island and learning from and befriending animals. A special advanced screening of this family film that you won’t want to miss. Supported by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and NRDC Rewrite the Future.

Coming of Age in a Changing World

• ♨️ Searching for Amani (Fri, 9/20 at 6:00pm. SOLD OUT) is the Opening Feature at CFF. A 13-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father’s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.

• 🐋 One with the Whale (Sun. 9/22 at 2:30pm). What does it mean to come of age as an indigenous hunter in the time of social media? For the Indigenous people of St. Lawrence, food is scarce, and hunting whales is a matter of life or death. A heartwarming yet thrilling story of one family’s struggle to rebuild their shattered identities and regain a new foothold in both the ancient and modern world.

• 🌳 Hollow Tree (Sun. 9/22 at 4:45pm) is the Closing Feature at CFF. follows three teenagers coming of age in Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and polluting refineries. Their different perspectives—as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women—shape their story of the climate crisis. Screening supported by CEEZER.

And Now For Something Completely Different

• 🌎 Earth II (Sat. 9/21 at 8:15pm) is the greatest climate action movie never made. Compiled from a supercut of 90’s and 00’s disaster movies, Earth II is the climate blockbuster we’ve been waiting for… and that was already there all along.

• 👩‍🚀 Experimental Climate Shorts (Sun. 9/22 at 2:45pm). Show up for stop-motion astronauts, virtual worlds, generative AI, Borgesian archives, colorful creatures, and celebrate the boundless creativity and experimental spirit of contemporary storytelling.

• 🔥 Hot Takes: Climate Comedy (Sun. 9/22 at 5:00pm). Aliens, toxic reality stars, time travelers, bumbling energy execs, and Rollie Williams all on one screen. Even worse, they’ll all be there in person, too.

Stories of Activism and Grassroots Impact

• 🗽 Emergent City (Sat. 9/21 at 1:00pm) is a behind-the-scenes look at how NYC develops. The film tracks the development of Industry City in Sunset Park through the eyes of local activists, developers, and city politicians. Still have that unread copy of The Power Broker on your shelf? Come watch this instead.

• 💧 Dive in, Rise Up: Environmental Justice & Water (Sat. 9/21 at 3:15pm) one of the festival must-sees, an absolutely unmissable program on water and environmental justice from around the world. Screening supported by Climate Power.

• ✊ Power Shift: Defying Fossil Fuels (Sun. 9/22 at 12:30pm). How can you make a difference? These short films follow the moving journeys of activists against the odds, from the life-or-death stakes of defying oil companies in Nigeria to fighting for a gas ban in Oregon to a vow of silence that spoke louder than words.

Science & Innovation

• 👩‍🔬 Science & Solutions (Sat. 9/21 at 10:30am). Creating “ice stupas” from glacial meltwater, making food from the air, regrowing coral, saving parasites, and finding new seaweed stories are all part of this block. Come for science, solutions, and a dose of inspiration to start your weekend.

• 🧊 CANARY (Sat. 9/21 at 3:30pm) is a real-life adventure story for our times. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Dr. Lonnie Thompson found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his life’s work evolving into a salvage mission to recover these priceless historical records before they disappear forever.

• 🏙️ An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet + Freetown: Cooling a City (9/22 at 10:00am). Are you into cities, resilience, and building decarbonization? This one’s for you. Want to see Jamie Lannister Nikolaj Coster-Waldau visit and learn about climate solutions in the built-environment around the world? Also for you.

Food & Farming

• 👩🏾‍🌾 Farming While Black & ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) (Sat. 9/21 at 10:30am) showcase stories of Black and Indigenous leaders reframing relationships to land. Farming While Black highlights New York farmers joyously reclaiming their agricultural heritage and building on farming practices that can heal people and the planet. ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) tells the story of a Cherokee waterkeeper as she leads the effort to restore a creek labeled as “irreversibly damaged.”

• 🌾 Common Ground (Sun. 9/22 at 11:45am) presents a hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food and are working to balance the climate—all while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. Screening supported by Envest and Sound Future.

Global Perspectives Across Genres

• 😱 Trash, Terror, & Tomorrow: Eco-Anxiety at the Brink (Sat. 9/21 at 5:45pm) features plastic monsters, a Seoul so hot you can’t step outside, a young girl unravelling, an activist willing to die for her cause, a Bengladeshi river with a message, and an artist residency gone wrong. Catch these creative, inventive short films all confronting the deep anxiety and unease of the climate crisis.

• 🌏 Young Voices, Global Perspectives (Sun. 9/22 at 10:30am) highlights a mix of narrative and documentary shorts from early-career filmmakers. An activist struggles against the expansion of an oil refinery in his fishing village in Taiwan, a Moroccan cedar forest disappears, a gulf coast community deals with the aftermath of Deepwater Horizon, a young boy in Sindh dreams of a different climate, and New York’s harbor remembers its oyster-filled past.

• 🏔️ The Weight of Water: The Human Cost of Climate Crisis & Mountain Man (Sun. 9/22 at 5:00pm). Travel to the Himalayas for the evening with these two films. In Nepal, flooding and drought from global change have brought local tragedy and change. The Weight of Water shows the complex impact of climate change-fueled flooding and drought through three intimate, human stories. Mountain Man follows the only glaciologist in Bhutan as he travels to the remotest corners of the Bhutanese Himalayas to record the impacts of climate change.

See the full schedule here

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How To Fest

We’re creating a hub for the weekend with food, panels, and conversation alongside our incredible lineup of films.

☕️ Coffee Collabs: Climate x Cinema

To bring the conversation out of the theater and into the city, we're pairing up filmmakers and climate professionals for a coffee as part of a program sponsored by Pique Action. Looking to expand your network or stretch your wings? Sign up here to share your knowledge and build new friendships.

📍Venues

Our primary venue is Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film at 87 Lafayette St. in TriBeCa. We’ll be there all day on Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22. We’re taking over the whole Firehouse and will have four unique rooms:

• Theater A is a gorgeous cinema space for feature films

• Theater B is a creative screening room for our shorts programs and select features

• The Solutions Hub is a public lounge with partner tables, coffee, and snacks

• The Filmmaker Lounge hosts panels, workshops, films, and private events

Opening night is hosted in partnership with The Explorers Club at 46 E. 70th St on the Upper East Side, and our special Sunday screening of The Wild Robot will be at SVA Theatre, 333 W. 23rd St. in Chelsea.

⭐️ Filmmaker Lounge

Looking to bring climate to your set or production? Join us in the filmmaker lounge to meet other creatives, producers, and industry professionals and to hear from leaders in the field of climate filmmaking and sustainable production.

Panels & Workshops (Free!)

• 🌊 Telling Human Stories from Climate Frontlines (Sat. 9/21 at 11:00am). Join the visionary filmmaker behind Lowland Kids (2019) for an in-depth conversation about the urgency of climate storytelling.

• ✍️ Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change (Sat. 9/21 at 3:00pm). Join Good Energy for a one-hour workshop for writers, filmmakers, and industry members to explore how climate can be woven into any story, in any genre.

• ⚡️ Electrified and Fossil Free Productions (Sat. 9/21 at 4:30pm). Join Rewiring America for a panel on how to approach both on- and offscreen decisions around ditching fossil fuels on screen and on set.

• 🌅 Inspiring Climate Action: Entertainment’s Many Pathways to Impact (Sat. 9/21 at 6:00pm). Can entertainment help inspire the action we need to address climate change? Join Rare for a panel on the latest research on this topic, and discuss the varied pathways stories can take to make impact in the world.

• 🎞️ Putting Climate on Both Sides of the Camera (Sun. 9/22 at 11:00am). What can we do when making our next movie, TV series, or social media video to reduce our impact and emissions on set? Join Mari Jo Winkler, EP, True Detective: Night Country; Kati Johnson, EP, Bull; Heidi Kindberg, HBO; Emellie O’Brien, Earth Angel; and Stephanie Dawson, Producer for this must-attend panel.

• 💸 Crowdfunding to Build Independence (Mon. 9/23 at 12:00pm). Join Seed&Spark for an online workshop on how to have a successful crowdfunding campaign... and career! You’ll learn how to find your audience, structure your crowdfunding campaign, pick the right goal and incentives, and more.

🌎 Solutions Hub

Join us at the Solutions Hub for conversations, snacks, and Stumptown coffee. This is a lounge area to meet with friends before or after a program and to engage with organizations doing incredible work in the climate space. Stay tuned for more Solutions Hub announcements to come!

Saturday

• Talk food and sustainability with Rethink Food and Re:Dish in the morning.

• Then get the inside track on Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability and dive into culture with the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion

• Spend the afternoon with WE ACT talking about heat justice in NYC and more.

Sunday

• Catch Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability again if you missed them and talk coastal resiliency with Waterfront Alliance on Sunday morning

• Grab 1:1 time in the afternoon with Rewiring America to learn how they can help you electrify all aspects of your production.

🥕 Food and Drink

Over the course of the weekend, we’ll have limited complimentary food and drink available for festival attendees at the Solutions Hub and for festival participants at the Filmmaker Lounge.

Enormous thanks to our wonderful in-kind partners:

• 🍫 Plant-based protein bars from Aloha

• 🫧 Probiotic sparkling water and kombucha from bear’s fruit

• 🥣 Sustainable containers and utensils from Eco-pliant

• 🍵 Tea from Just Ice Tea

• 🍯 Vegan honey from Mellody

• 💧 Canned water from Open Water

• 🍏 Healthy snacks from Precycle

• 😋 Plant-based charcuterie from Prime Roots

• 🧀 Vegan cheese from Rebel Cheese

• 🍽️ Reusable dishware from Re:Dish

• 🥗 Catering and snacks from Rethink Food

• 🥛 Plant-based wellness shakes from Remedy Organics

• ☕️ Coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters

• 🍫 Chocolate from Tony’s Chocolonely

• 🍷 Wine from Wölffer Estate

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CFF’s 2024 Film Festival is made possible by our wonderful sponsors: the Guardian US, SNØCAP, Universal Pictures, The Carmack Collective Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, CEEZER, Rewiring America, Seaborne, Earth Angel by TheGreenShot (Sustainability Partner), Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Climate Power, Sound Future, Envest, Climate Tech Cities, Pique Action, The Live/Work/Walk Foundation, Buffy Redsecker and Alan Chung, Jason and Laurie Jeffay, and Laura Cook.

Thanks also to our network of in-kind sponsors who make this festival possible: All Arts (Local Media Partner), Betancourt Group, Edge Auto, Empact.fyi (Impact Partner), Entertainment + Culture Pavilion (Cultural Media Partner), The Everset, The Explorers Club, Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film, MR. HOSPITALITY, Romanette Legal, Studio Rodrigo and Cinema Rodrigo, Version Tomorrow, and Fernanda Uribe-Horta.

And that’s a wrap for now! Want a personal recommendation? Looking to learn more? Just reply and I’m happy to help!

And as a reminder:

🎟️ Get tickets before they’re gone

NY Climate Tech: Sep 3 - Sep 9

Our next meetup, data in power, sustainable fashion, WAC baseball, climate writing, Antarctic film, and more events this week!

Hi friends,

Welcome back, and looking forward to seeing many of you at our meetup tomorrow!

If you’re looking for Climate Week coverage, stay tuned for more updates tomorrow (paid subscribers already have access to our updated Airtable with almost 400 events!).

Also, if you’ve been waiting to buy tickets for the 🎬 Climate Film Festival, now’s the time! Opening night and several screenings are already sold out. Get your tickets today. Want to be involved? Sign up to volunteer with CFF.

Here are our picks for the week:

• This Wednesday, join us for the 🗽 NY Climate Tech Meetup: September Edition

• On Thursday, take a dive deep into what data and the distribution of power means to the climate, energy, and sustainability community at 🔌 Data in Power

• Also on Thursday, head to Asia Society for 🧵 Threads of Sustainability: Panel and Showcase to talk sustainable fashion

• Take yourself out to the ball game at the ⚾️ WAC NYC Coney Island Baseball and Boardwalk Gathering on Friday

• On Saturday, join NYCT’s Kathy Z for the ✍️ Climate Writing Club

Finally, get an early taste of the Climate Film Festival next Friday the 13th, at a rooftop reception 🥂 and private, sneak peek screening 🎥 of a new documentary by an award-winning filmmaker with WINGS and CFF. This film chronicles the extraordinary journey of Dr. Samantha Monier, a charismatic field biologist who leads a groundbreaking research expedition to the remote island of South Georgia.

As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.

Cheers,

Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team

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This Week’s Events

• 🗽 NY Climate Tech Meetup: September Edition: Wed, Sep 4

• 🎴 Climate Fresk at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market): Thu, Sep 5

• 🔌 Data in Power: Thu, Sep 5

• 🧵 Threads of Sustainability: Panel and Showcase: Thu, Sep 5

• 🏫 Decarbonize CUNY Town Hall: Thu, Sep 5

• 👕 Better Together Party!: Fri, Sep 6

• ⚾️ WAC NYC Coney Island Baseball and Boardwalk Gathering: Fri, Sep 6

• ⚖️ Climate Justice Lives Here Art Build: Sat, Sep 7

• ✍️ Climate Writing Club: Sat, Sep 7

• 🎬 WINGS & Climate Film Festival Present: A Special Screening: Fri, Sep 13

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🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms

Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!

• Climate startups looking to raise

• Climate talent looking to transition

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Opportunities

🌱 GROW + TOGETHER Accelerator (Due: Sept. 6)

Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and SecondMuse are pioneering the GROW + TOGETHER Accelerator to merge the innovative forces of hardtech clean energy startups with the manufacturing industry in the Northeast US. Supported by an EPIC award funded by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions, this model accelerates hardtech startup integration into existing supply chains, overcoming common barriers to market penetration faced by innovative products.

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Community Shoutouts

🌐 SOSV Climate Tech Summit

The SOSV Climate Tech Summit (October 14-18) is a free, virtual and global event that features the top technologists, researchers, founders, investors, and policy makers working on the frontiers of climate innovation. Registration is open and free.

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Upcoming Events

• 🧼 The Material History of Soap: The Science and Sustainability Behind the How and Why Soap Works: Mon, Sep 9

• 🎨 paint & snack: Tue, Sep 10

• 🍏 Green Apple Trivia: Tue, Sep 10

• 💸 Empowering the Future: A Panel on Cleantech Investing and Networking with NYC's Impact Leaders: Tue, Sep 10

• 💰 Climate Mobilization Act Series: Funding, Financing & Incentives: Wed, Sep 11

• 🏙️ 2024 Economic & Workforce Development Summit: Thu, Sep 12

• 🎬 WINGS & Climate Film Festival Present: A Special Screening: Fri, Sep 13

• 🧶 Mending at the Movies: Fri, Sep 13

• 🪡 IMPACT Beyond the Runway: Sat, Sep 14

• 🌆 Decarbonizing NYC Offices: Implementing Forward-Thinking Fit-Outs: Tue, Sep 17

• 📈 Sustainable Growth New York: Tue, Sep 17

• 🌬️ Empire Wind's "Opportunity in Action": Tue, Sep 17

• 🌿 Hedgework Eco Data Workshop: Thu, Sep 19

• 🍽️ Sustainably Social: A Climate Week Exclusive Dinner: Thu, Sep 19

• ☀️ Power Up Your Career: Brooklyn SolarWorks Job Fair: Fri, Sep 20

• 🍻 Opening Party to Climate Week at Strong Rope Brewery: Fri, Sep 20

• 🙋‍♀️ WE Connect Event: Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship III: Fri, Sep 20

• ⛵️ 2024 Textile X Ocean Connector Sail: Fri, Sep 27

• ⚡️ Dervos 2024: Fri, Oct 25

• 🔌 Deploy24: Wed, Dec 4

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This Week in Depth

🗽 NY Climate Tech Meetup: September Edition

When: Wednesday, September 4 · 6:30 - 9pm EDT

Where: The Globe Bar, 158 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010

Join NY Climate Tech for our September meetup! This monthly meetup is a casual and accessible way to connect with others in the climate community. Whether you're a seasoned climate expert or just starting to explore your interest in this vital issue, you'll find a welcoming and supportive community at NY Climate Tech.

🎴 Climate Fresk at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market)

When: Thursday, September 5 · 6:15 - 9:30pm EDT

Where: Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Want to help tackle climate change but don’t have the time to become a climate scientist? Join us for this fun Game + Appetizers night that has already been played by >1.5 M people worldwide! The workshop will take place at Eat Offbeat and includes appetizers home-cooked with love by refugee chefs living in NYC.

🔌 Data in Power

When: Thursday, September 5 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Where: Manhattan, NYC

​Data and the distribution of decision-making power is becoming an increasingly important dynamic to understand and engage with in climate, energy and sustainability. Who is collecting, analyzing, and presenting data - how and why? These are the hard-hitting questions we will unpack. These monthly meetups bring the climate, energy, and sustainability community together to discuss what data and the distribution of power means to us.

🧵 Threads of Sustainability: Panel and Showcase

When: Thursday, Sep 5 from 6:30pm - 8pm

Where: 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021

Asia Society presents Threads of Sustainability: Fashion, Ethics and the Environment, in collaboration with Fempowerment Foundation. Join us for an evening of fashion as food for thought, featuring a lively and insightful panel discussion on Indian fashion, sustainability and Indian women's roles within India's rich culture of textiles and design. Foregrounding the local traditions and artisans behind global fashion, the evening features a panel with speakers from the fashion industry with a focus on ethical and slow fashion, alongside a showcase of artisanal textiles and beading. Learn about the exquisitely-crafted textiles on display and listen to the stories of the women who crafted them, all while gaining a deeper understanding of global fashion's interaction with sustainability and the environment, as well as South Asian history and tradition. Watch a fashion show of intentional Indian fabrics in a contemporary context, including designs from Marchesa, Anna Sui, Krishna Mehta, Gingerblu and Iro Iro among others. Enjoy a brief classical Indian performance after the program.

🏫 Decarbonize CUNY Town Hall

When: Thursday, Sep 5 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Where: 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY

Hosted by the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, the Center for the Humanities, and the Ecocriticism Working Group on Thursday, September 5th, 6:30 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center, join faculty, students, staff, environmental organizations, community leaders, and union members for a discussion with an array of people working to create a healthy, sustainable, and fossil-free future, both at CUNY and across the nation. We will discuss how CUNY can be the leader in the green energy transition by demanding the state and NYPA take action now.

👕 Better Together Party!

When: Friday, September 6 · 6 - 8:30pm EDT

Where: Gil Hodges Community Garden, 534 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Circular fashion is only possible if we all work together, so grab your sustainable besties for a better start to fashion week party! Circular outfits encouraged - wear your favorite vintage, upcycled, and/or repaired looks! Not only is this FABSCRAP's 8th Anniversary, but we'll be sharing some industry-changing news at the party too!

⚾️ WAC NYC Coney Island Baseball and Boardwalk Gathering

When: Friday, September 6 · 6 - 10pm EDT

Where: Maimonides Park, 1904 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Women & Climate goes to the ball game and boardwalk! If you are looking for an opportunity to talk climate with other professionals identifying as women+, you are in the right place! No climate experience necessary.

⚖️ Climate Justice Lives Here Art Build

When: Saturday, September 7 · 11am - 3pm EDT

Where: UPROSE, 462 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Join us in making art for for our Climate Justice Lives Here Festival! This event is open to everyone, come make art and learn about UPROSE.

✍️ Climate Writing Club

When: Saturday, September 7 from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Where: Upper West Side, New York, NY

​Climate Writing Club connects and supports New Yorkers exploring topics within climate & sustainability through writing. ​​​We meet once a week on Saturday mornings on the UWS to write about climate together — from fiction to newsletters to academic papers to journaling and everything in between.