NY Climate Tech: Dec 6 - Dec 12

Clean Energy Fellowships, TechStar Demo Day, and a Climate Fiction Newsletter

Hi all,

There’s really only one day that matters this week, and it’s Thursday, with four of the events in the newsletter. They mostly don’t overlap, so if you’re feeling ambitious you can have your own little climate tech holiday: start by Zooming into a UK panel on tech workers and climate change, head over to Javits for a real estate conference with sessions on sustainability, pop out for lunch to dial into the TechStars demo day, and wrap it all up with a happy hour where you can learn more about how to apply for the Clean Energy Leadership Institute’s 2022 fellowship.

The one event outside of the Thursday vortex is the launch of Flourish Fiction. Flourish Fiction is a new project started by some of my colleagues from the OnDeck Climate Fellowship. Their mission is to create and share hopeful stories that awaken imagination and help inspire the next generation of climate solutions. They launch this Friday, and you can sign up for their Substack here.

In this newsletter:

• ⚡️Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) Fellowship Information Session

• 🏙 Propel NYC 2021

• 🌟 Techstars x Nature Conservancy Sustainability Demo Day

• 👩‍💻 Panel discussion: How can tech workers take action on climate change?

• 🌻 Flourish Fiction Launch Party

In-Person Events

⚡️Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) Fellowship Information Session

When: Thursday, Dec. 9 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: Houston Hall, 222 Houston Street

RSVP: Free here

The Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) is currently recruiting for our 2022 Fellows.

Fellows are rising leaders in clean energy with at least 3 years of experience in the sector, and the Fellowship is a year-long non-residential program that includes evening and weekend meetings where high-level leaders give lectures on a curriculum that spans clean energy finance, policy, technology, and market fundamentals. There are cohorts of ~30 fellows chosen each year in DC, NYC, Chicago, and the Bay Area, as well as two national (fully virtual) programs.

🏙 Propel NYC 2021

When: Wednesday, Dec. 8 and Thursday, Dec. 9 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: Javits Center

RSVP: $450 (Startup) - $750 (Regular)

Propel by MIPIM is the meeting place for the game-changers who aim at (re)creating a sustainable, desirable and prosperous built environment. Our five pillars will once again be the foundations of the Propel by MIPIM - NYC 2021 real estate conference program: Sustainability, User Experience, Investment, Data and Talent, with various topics such as Diversity & Inclusion, Decarbonization, Future of Work, SPACs, Cybersecurity... and more!

Online Events

🌟 Techstars x Nature Conservancy Sustainability Demo Day

When: Thursday, Dec. 9 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

RSVP: Free here

Don't miss out on the chance this week to hear from climate tech companies at the Demo Day for the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in Partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Dec 9th, 12.00 ET. We've been working with a great group of founders the past three months and would love to have any and all people interested in the early stage climate space join us.

👩‍💻 Panel discussion: How can tech workers take action on climate change in 2022?

When: Thursday, Dec. 9 from 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

RSVP: Free here

Green Tech South West brings together some wonderful people from organisations in the digital tech community, all working to surface and implement meaningful change to the tech industry's impact on climate change.

Featuring:
SANDRA PALLIER - Lead organiser at ClimateAction.tech (CAT)
CHRIS ADAMS - Director at The Green Web Foundation (TGWF)
MOHAN GANDHI - Head of policy and research at the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)
JANET GUNTER - Outreach lead and co-founder at the Restart Project

🌻 Flourish Fiction Launch Party

When: Friday, Dec. 10 from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

RSVP: Free here

We need more hopeful stories to awaken imagination and help inspire the next generation of climate solutions.

That’s why members of the On Deck Climate Tech fellowship started the Flourish Fiction collective. They saw an opportunity to bring together writers with diverse knowledge of climate solutions to share hopeful visions for the future in the form of short stories.

We invite you to join us as we celebrate the launch of Flourish Fiction and the publication of the first 3 climate fiction stories on

At the launch party, you will:

• Learn about the ideas, experiences, and writing processes behind the first 3 stories

• Meet a community of writers interested in climate solutions

• Learn about Flourish Fiction's writing workshops and editing process and how you can get involved