NY Climate Tech: Aug 28 - Sep 4
Summer sips and climate field trips!
Hi friends,
What an incredible summer we’ve had with the NY Climate Tech community! We were so happy to see many of you for our sold-out happy hour at the CitizenM Hotel, with great weather, great people, and great conversation.
It’s gearing up to be a busy fall, and we’ll see many of you for NY Climate Week and beyond. Check out all 163 (!) events and counting in our comprehensive Climate Week Guide, which breaks down what’s hot and what’s not! It’s available to paid subscribers, and we’ll release the public version in a few weeks. Plan ahead and show your favorite climate newsletter some love!
In the meantime, here are our picks for this week (who doesn’t love a climate themed field trip?!):
What happens to all your plastics, paper, and cardboard? Find out by joining the ♻️ Sims Municipal Recycling Tour on Thursday. As the resident urban infrastructure nerd, this is a personal favorite for Sonam!
If trash isn’t your thing, have no fear. We’ve got you covered with a 🏡 Passive House Tour with AIA Brooklyn on Thursday.
Finish off the week for drinks with your climate besties! Join the 🥂 First Friday Meetup hosted by NY Climate Tech’s very own Edoardo Italia!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec and Sonam
🌎 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! At Streetlife Ventures, we invest at the intersection of cities x climate. In addition, we work with founders to test, iterate, and accelerate urban climate solutions, in partnership with cities, real estate developers, infrastructure groups, and OEMs. We’re the ultimate optimists and are excited to work with 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. Let’s build the future we want to live in!
Community Shoutouts
👩🏽💻 Amazon AWS and UNESCO Compute for Climate Fellowship
The Compute for Climate Fellowship is a global program run by the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), an organization under the auspices of UNESCO, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). When a startup is selected for the fellowship, they will engage in a 2-3 month build with 1:1 advice from mentors and AWS credits to cover the AWS service costs of the build. Startups will get access to advanced computing services, such as quantum computing, high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and AWS credits to cover the build of the PoC. In addition, all PoCs will be designed under the guidelines of UNESCO’s Ethics Impact Assessment for Artificial Intelligence to ensure that each solution is built with safe, trustworthy technology. Learn more and submit your applications by September 15, 2023.
Events This Week
✨ Climate Ready Uptown Plan Workshop: Mon, Aug 28
♻️ Sims Municipal Recycling Tour: Thu, Aug 31
🏡 Passive House Tour with AIA Brooklyn CRAN (Boerum Hill): Thu, Aug 31
🥂 First Friday Meetup: Fri, Sep 1
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
💩 Park Tours: Compost Center: Thu, Sep 7
☕️ Climate Cafe (9/7): Thu, Sep 7
🌍 Muslims for Climate Justice: The Earth as our Amaanah: Sat, Sep 9
⚖️ Climate, Politics, and Corporate Power: A Conversation with Steven Donziger: Tue, Sep 12
🥬 Food and Agriculture as a Solution to the Climate Crisis: Thu, Sep 14
🧶 Meet emerging Nordic fashion brands and sustainability leaders: Thu, Sep 14
🪴 7th NYC Green School Conference 2023: Fri, Sep 15
⛓️ Blockchain / Web3 for Climate Community Networking Event @ Climate Week NYC: Fri, Sep 15
🧵 Community Brunch @ The Sustainable Fashion Community Center: Sun, Sep 17
🎭 Climate Change Action Theater: Sun, Sep 17
🟢 Sustainability Summit NYC Opening Panel: Mon, Sep 18
🔌 Sustainable supply of critical minerals for the energy transition: Mon, Sep 18
🌍 New Yorkers and the Climate Movement: Mon, Sep 18
💨 Offshore wind: Developing local and sustainable supply chains to accelerate: Mon, Sep 18
🌾 NYC Climate Week Panel: Building a Climate-Friendly Food System for Animals, Planet, and People: Mon, Sep 18
Event Details
✨ Climate Ready Uptown Plan Workshop
When: Mon, Aug 28th from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: 102nd Street Field House, 102nd Street Field House, New York, NY
Riverside Park Conservancy is thrilled to partner with WE ACT for Environmental Justice to host an emergency preparedness workshop. This training is intended to arm the community with the necessary resources and information to prepare for environmental emergencies that may occur. More specifically, participants will learn how to prepare themselves and their families for extreme heat and flooding in and around their neighborhood.Workshop participants will receive a free copy of WE ACT's Climate Ready Uptown Plan as well as some light refreshments.
♻️ Sims Municipal Recycling Tour
When: Thu, Aug 31st from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Where: Sims Municipal Recycling, 472 2nd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Join Fashion Revolution USA's NYC community and tour the Sims Recycling Facility in Brooklyn. The 11-acre Brooklyn facility features a Recycling Education Center with a theater, interactive exhibits, a lunch space, outdoor patio, and observation deck overlooking our Material Recovery Facility. Visitors will experience the state-of-the-art sorting process, view hundreds of tons of recyclables that travel to our facility from all over New York City, and learn how SMR processes 1,000 tons of materials each day. We are also host to sustainability features including the city's first commercial-scale wind turbine, a large solar array, native plantings, storm water management, and marine habitats.
🏡 Passive House Tour with AIA Brooklyn CRAN (Boerum Hill)
When: Thu, Aug 31st from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: Address TBA, 3rd & Bergen, Brooklyn, NY
Join AIABK's Custom Residential Architects Network for a tour of a Passive House under construction in Boerum Hill. Attendees will earn 1 LU.Tour a single family townhouse in the historic district of Boerum Hill. We are in the middle of a gut renovation of the house, including a full envelope upgrade, new windows, new mechanical system, and new interior fitouts. The house envelope and systems have been designed to meet Passive House performance standards, with a compact VRF heat pump, continuous energy-recovery ventilation, and Zola windows. Passive House is a high performance building standard developed by the Passive House Institute (PHI) originally in 1990 and by the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) in 2007. This tour will be led by architect Elizabeth Maletz of Maletz Design. The address of the project site in Boerum Hill will be shared with registrants the day before the event. The AIA Brooklyn Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) is a Knowledge Community of architects in Brooklyn practicing residential architecture. To get involved, please contact AIA Brooklyn CRAN Co-Chairs: David Cunningham | david@dcapny.com or Cortney Walleston | cortney@cwallarchitecture.com.
🥂 First Friday Meetup
When: Fri, Sep 1 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Belvedere Lounge, 77 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003
Join First Friday and NY Climate Tech for a monthly happy hour for people who care about climate, tech, and building cool things!
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A Global Network of Local Communities
We are expanding! We started as an 8-person dinner and now have over 9,000 members in our community. We’ve had people across the world reach out to us to start their own chapters - so we’re launching a new Climate Tech Cities organization this year! If you have friends who are interested in becoming chapter leads, please share the word. Here’s to a global network of local communities making a positive impact!