NY Climate Tech: Feb 15 - Feb 22
NY Climate Tech: Feb 15 - Feb 22
Drinks in Brooklyn tomorrow, art this weekend, and our next meetup
Hi all,
We have a lot happening this week, with three in-person events and more online.
Our next meetup will be Tuesday, March 8th at Torch & Crown in West SoHo / Hudson Square. Looking forward to seeing you there!
I’m also gauging interest in setting up some smaller climate dinners where we can spend a little more time together and build stronger connections. If you’re interested, please fill out this Google form and let me know.
In-person events this week start off tomorrow with Green Drinks in Brooklyn, open to a wide range of people working in sustainability (not just climate tech). The arts are warming up this week, with an opening of the show “Black Resilience and Sustainability” at the Calabar Gallery in Harlem on Thursday & Friday, and “This is not a (Climate) Drill” at MoMA PS1 on Saturday.
If you’re staying in, tune in tonight for a panel on building sustainable communities in the face of climate change, learn about hydrogen and carbon capture tomorrow with AirMiners, or have a virtual coffee Thursday with the Climate Action Tech crew.
Finally, if you’re just getting into Climate Tech and looking for your space in in, Yin Lu shared this great map on Twitter. Check out the whole thread.
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Our next meetup & other upcoming events:
Jobs:
None this week. Want yours listed? Reply to this email and I’ll add it in.
In-Person Events
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn
When: Wed, February 16, 2022 at 6:00 PM EST
Where: Estuary Brasserie & Bar, 159 Bridge Park Drive, Brooklyn, NY 11201
RSVP: Free here
Is your work related to the environment or sustainability? Are you interested in sustainability or environmental issues. Do you want to meet some like minded folks and share your thoughts and passion. Come down to Estuary at ONE15 Brooklyn Marina for Happy Hour drinks. We'll have a few folks introduce themselves and their work.
Get a group together and grab dinner at the community table afterwards
Ramon Cruz, Sierra Club
Susana Vidal, Finding your Sustainability Personal Legend, Shift Sustainability
Karl Palmquist, Dangerous Persistence of Plastic - What NYC should do about it
Kate Sundberg & Robin Moulton, Big Reuse - NYC Composting
Space available for speakers! Come join us
🎨 Black Resilience and Sustainability at Calabar Gallery
When: Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 5:00 PM –Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
Where: Calabar Gallery, 2504 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, NYC 10030
RSVP: Free here
The impact of Covid-19 brought an awareness of the fragility of Black life and the urgent call for an examination through art of state of the black community globally.
This exhibition of Black Artists (African, Caribbean and African American Artists) captures work that exposes Black Resilience and Sustainability from the framework of the fragility of life and time, nature and the environment, rural and urban to basic human rights and the demands for change, joy and freedom.
Black Artists live and work in communities on the periphery, mostly ignored. They produce works that need a re-entering from extraordinary to every day in the ways they dive deeply into ideas, and innovatively create.
🚨 This is not a (Climate) Drill
When: Saturday, Feb 19 at 12:00 PM EST
Where: MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101
RSVP: Free here
Slow Factory hosts a workshop in climate preparedness facilitated by Celine Semaan and Sophia Li
Debuted at the TEDx Climate Countdown, This is Not a [Climate] Drill is a workshop in climate preparedness, facilitated by Celine Semaan and Sophia Li. Inspired by school fire drills and tornado drills, it brings together leaders across various disciplines to consider how and if their industries are ready to respond to a climate crisis through interactive soundscapes, design thinking sessions, and critical problem solving.
Established in 2012, Slow Factory has created partnerships between businesses, scientists, and sustainability experts, and produced online education platforms, experimental workshops, and international conferences. Through their projects, they advocate for a society that holds interdependence between people and nature as its highest value, with sustainable thinking and mutual respect as a collective responsibility.
Online Events
💪 Building More Resilient Communities in the Face of Climate Change - ESAL
When: Tuesday, Feb 15 at 5:30 PM EST
RSVP: Free here
Learn how data science, engineering, and policy can intersect to help local communities adapt to climate change risk
Despite global efforts to address climate change, communities have already begun to feel its impacts in many forms and scientists predict that the occurrence of extreme weather events will continue to increase. This event highlights the collaborative efforts required to translate climate data into more resilient communities.
Confirmed panelists:
Ed Kearns, PhD - Chief Data Officer, First Street Foundation
Somto Uyanna, MS - Environmental Engineer, Arcadis
Jessica Beach, PE - Chief Resilience Officer, City of St. Augustine, Fla
☁️ H2 and CO2 Removal: Startups with Two Products
When: Wednesday, Feb 16 at 3:00 PM EST
RSVP: Free here, or optional $10 to support carbon removal
At our next AirMiners event, we're diving into a pairing that may be worldchanging for our climate: a panel discussion of startups that BOTH remove CO2 and ALSO produce hydrogren gas! We think this is especially timely with the release of the Great Plains Institute's Atlas of Carbon and Hydrogen Hubs.
Our rationale: as carbon removal develops, this product pairing can become as important as other famous pairs we know!
Regardless, we at AirMiners anticipate you'll be attracted to this event like ants on honey! :-)
Register here; tickets are free or $10 to support event carbon removal.
☕️ Climate Action Tech (CAT) Coffee
When: Thursday, February 17 at 1:00 PM EST
RSVP: Free here
A regular, open event to mingle, share ideas, discuss things or just meet other CAT members. The topics we'll discuss will vary at every event.
At the beginning of the event there'll be an optional 10m presentation where you can learn more about the CAT community and we'll end with and an optional 15m chat where you can learn more about volunteering in the CAT community.
CAT volunteers may sometimes lightly structure and moderate the chat in a 'lean coffee' format where we suggest a topic each, vote on the topics that interest us the most and then spend a fixed amount of time discussion the topics with the most votes.
We're using the platform 'Wonder' for these events, so you can join and leave conversation circles in your own time — if you have an alternative platform you'd like to recommend instead, please send an email to sandra@climateaction.tech.
This event follows the Chatham House rule and our Code of Conduct applies.
Our Next Meetup & Coming Events
Next Meetup:
March 8: 🗽 NY Climate Tech Meetup
Other Events:
March 7: Jorge Otero-Pailos and Gisela Winckler - Climate and Society
March 22: ERA Climate Startup Pitch Night