NY Climate Tech: Feb 20 - Feb 26
NY Climate Tech: Feb 20 - Feb 26
Keeping cool with green drinks, greener careers, community storytelling, and more climate events this week
Hi friends,
Hope you all had a great holiday weekend! We spent it eating dumplings in Chinatown for Lunar New Year, visiting Asia Society’s new climate change exhibition Coal + Ice, and taking in the beauty that is NYC under the soft blanket of snow.
Here are our picks for the week:
Tomorrow, get support for your climate career at GreenHomeNYC’s rescheduled 👷♀️ Green Careers Resume Workshop in Flatiron
Head to Estuary in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Wednesday for 🌱 Green Drinks Brooklyn with to network and learn about electric / hybrid aircraft with Nate Poon
Join B Heard on Thursday in Alphabet City their 📣 Community Storytelling Event, an evening amplifying Black voices and stories on redefining sustainability
Also on Thursday, meet Nick Van Osdol of Keep Cool at the 🧊 Keep Cool Happy Hour in Chinatown
ALSO on Thursday, talk agencies and climate tech at the ✍️ NYC Happy Hour with Clean Creatives at Impact Hub in midtown.
Finally to round it out, join Zero Waste NYC in Astoria for 🍷 Sip and Solutions to talk sustainable fashion, activism/legislation, food waste, and more on (you guessed it) Thursday
Looking to get more involved or start volunteering? Join the Climate Tech Cities contributor network! Under 24 and interested in film? Sign up for the Climate Film Fest Student Steering Committee.
Have a great week,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities team
Events This Week
🏳️🌈 Out in Climate Happy Hour: Tue, Feb 20
👷♀️ Green Careers Resume Workshop: Tue, Feb 20
📈 The role of financial centers in the adoption of ISSB standards: Wed, Feb 21
🌱 Green Drinks Brooklyn - February 2024: Wed, Feb 21
🍵 2024 Climate Café at the Brooklyn Public Library: Wed, Feb 21
📣 B Heard: Community Storytelling Event: Wed, Feb 21
🧊 Keep Cool Happy Hour: Thu, Feb 22
✍️ NYC Happy Hour with Clean Creatives: Thu, Feb 22
🍷 Sip and Solutions: Thu, Feb 22
♻️ Home Swaps: A Sustainable Household Item Swap: Sat, Feb 24
📖 Climate Book Club and Poetry Workshop: Sat, Feb 24
We’re experimenting with a new rearrangement this week: We’re bringing up the list of this week’s events, but dropping the detailed listings that normally follow. What do you all think? Do you like listings with blurbs or just the short lists? Reply and let me know! You’ll be able to find upcoming events at the bottom, as usual.
🌎 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!
Arts, Film, and More!
✨ CFF Student Steering Committee: (Due Feb 28)
The CFF Student Steering Committee invites residents of New York City and the surrounding region who are between the ages of 18-24 to participate in an ambassador program about climate change, film, media, and the arts. More info here and form to apply here.
📽️ Bloomberg GreenDocs (Due Apr. 26)
The Bloomberg Green Docs competition is open to all eligible filmmakers who would like to compete to win a $25,000 grand prize for a short climate documentary. We want to explore our climate future with documentaries that reveal the world we are making today. Ecosystems are being restored and tomorrow’s zero-carbon communities are being formed. At the same time, extremes in our habitats warn of cascading climate consequences.
♳ Plastic Art @ the Sustainable Fashion Community Center
Help the Sustainable Fashion Community Center reach 20,000 bottles for a stunning High Line installation during Earth Month. They’re collaborating with artist Benjamin Von Wong to transform waste into art. For every bottle you donate to The Sustainable Fashion Community Center, you get a free piece of clothing from the Swap Shop [10 bottles per gift shop item].
Grant & Accelerator Opportunities
🏙️ NYC Smart City Testbed (Rolling)
The newly launched NYC Smart City Testbed Program creates a streamlined path to pilot emerging technologies with stakeholder city agencies. Accepted applicants will pilot their technology within New York City’s built environments with assistance from the Testbed team throughout the entire process.
🌳 NY Climate Resilience Grant Program (Due Feb. 24)
The Climate Resilience Grant Program (CRGP) offers grants of up to $50,000 to non-profit 501(c)(3) conservation and community organizations, municipalities, tribal entities and local and state agencies for projects that contribute to a world where people and nature can thrive. The goal of the program is to support partners in protecting the lands and waters critical for adapting to climate change.
🚇 Transit Innovation (Due Feb. 28)
The Transit Tech Lab provides an accelerated pathway for early to growth-stage companies to solve public transportation challenges for the largest transit agencies in North America.
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
🏙️ URBAN-X Accelerator (Rolling, program starts March)
🌬️ OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge (Due Mar. 4)
🔋 Energy Storage Capital Challenge (Due Mar. 4)
🤩 Brand New Brand (Due Mar. 22)
🌇 $10M Empire Technology Prize (Due Mar. 24)
☀️ Mária Telkes Fellowship (Due Mar. 31)
⚒️ Pilots at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (Rolling)
🏢 Urban Tech XChange (Rolling)
Community Shoutouts
🌿 Climatebase Fellowship (Due Feb 23)
The Climatebase Fellowship combines a 12-week industry-oriented educational program and ongoing community membership throughout the year. Access expert guest speaker sessions, career support, project-based work, and a supportive network of highly talented peers.
🌳 Adapt Unbound (May 21)
Over 250 leaders and visionaries will convene in NYC to share actionable insights, scale innovative solutions and unlock the critical capital needed to adapt our urban and natural environments to the changing climate.
Upcoming Events
🦠 Hazard NYC: A Talk on NYC’s Toxic Sites in the Age of Climate Change: Tue, Feb 27
🥕 FoodHack NYC Meetup: Better for You and Functional Foods: Tue, Feb 27
🍺 First NYCDR Happy Hour of 2024!!!: Tue, Feb 27
🌊 COPRI Technical Lecture - The Battery Coastal Resilience: Wed, Feb 28
👩🎨 Free Climate Art Worshop with Nicole Kelner: Fri, Mar 1
🌎 ECOLOGICAL CITY - Art & Climate Solutions Workshops: Sat, Mar 2
🎨 Bioart Exhibit : Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care: Sat, Mar 2
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails (New York City): Wed, Mar 6
🌱 Redefining the Concrete Jungle: NYC as a Model for Urban Sustainability: Thu, Mar 7
🍻 First Friday Meetup: Fri, Mar 8
🌿 Wall Street Green Summit 2024: Tue, Mar 12
🗽 2024 Digital New York Summit: Thu, Mar 14
⚖️ Youth-Powered Green Future | Visions for a Just Transition: Thu, Mar 14
🔬 LEAP Research Updates: Florencio Portocarrero + Jaeyoung Jung: Thu, Mar 14
🗣️ Climate Techies NYC Monthly Member Sustainability and Networking Meetup: Thu, Mar 14
🌳 Unlocking Enterprise Value through Embedded Sustainability: Fri, Mar 15
🧩 Unlocking Enterprise Value through Embedded Sustainability: Fri, Mar 15
🌅 Leaders in Impact Happy Hour: Mar 18
🍽️ Pratt Presents Food Equity: A Design Equity Event: Tue, Mar 19
👑 Columbia University Sustainability Symposium: Fri, Mar 22
🌍 IPPA's 18th Annual Spring Summit: Fri, Mar 29