NY Climate Tech: Feb 22 - March 1
Food & Microbiome, Sustainable Fashion Volunteering, and Diamonds
Hi all,
This Thursday, head uptown to a talk on Climate Change and Food Security at Columbia with Dr. Jyotsna Puri from UN’s IFAD. Keep following your gut over the weekend with a workshop on the microbiome at Genspace in Brooklyn, where you’ll extract and analyze DNA from a variety of samples.
Looking for something different? Volunteer at the Sustainable Fashion Community Center in East Harlem or swing by the Shed for a new exhibition by Tomás Saraceno and accompanying programs from Columbia’s Climate School.
Online, check in on success stories from the Work on Climate community today or tune in on Friday for MIT’s Sustainability Summit focused on grassroots and indigenous action.
We have jobs this week from Aether Diamonds, with two great opportunities to get into climate in a marketing or social media role, and a couple executive roles at Blocpower building national strategies for broadband and building data standards.
As a reminder, our next event is Tuesday, March 8th. And I’m starting to gauge interest in smaller climate dinners. If you’d like to join, fill out this form, and I’ll get in touch soon. Michelle Li from CleverCarbon is already organizing dinners for Women in Climate - find out about the next one here.
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Jobs
💎 Aether Diamonds: Marking Analytics & Social Media Associate
🏙 Blocpower: VP Broadband & GM Building Data
Want your jobs listed here? Send me an email, it’s free!
In-Person Events
🌾 Climate Change and Food Security: The Role of the International Fund
When: Thursday, Feb 24 at 6:00 PM
Where: International Affairs Building 1501, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027
RSVP: Free here
With Dr. Jyotsna Puri, Associate VP Strategy and Knowledge Department at IFAD
IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized UN agency based in Rome. Its mission is to transform rural economies and food systems by making them more inclusive, productive, resilient, and sustainable. Since 1978 IFAD has provided US$23.2 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached an estimated 518 million people.
🧪 Exploring the Microbiome
When: Saturday, Feb 26; Sunday, Feb 27; Saturday, March 5 from 2:00 - 6:00 PM EST
Where: Genspace @ 132 32nd Street #108 Brooklyn, NY 11232
RSVP: $420 for all three days here
In this workshop, participants will learn about modern concepts and techniques in microbiome studies. Participants will receive hands-on experience in the experimental and computational techniques to identify bacterial species from environmental samples.
This workshop will include:
Day 1: Extract DNA from various environmental samples (or bring your own!)
Day 2: Prepare and process samples for microbial DNA sequencing
Day 3: Computationally analyze microbiome sequencing data using QIIME
👖Volunteer at the Sustainable Fashion Community Center
When: Tuesday - Saturday, multiple dates & times
Where: Sustainable Fashion Community Center @ 1795 Lexington Avenue
RSVP: Free here
Sign up to volunteer at The Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Spend 4 hours sorting, hanging, organizing, and if you've got some skillz using those to help out this wonderful community of advocates, activities, and small business owners.
As a thank you, you'll get to swap for free! Volunteers get to participate in "straight swapping" meaning you bring 2 pieces, you take two pieces, you bring 5 pieces, you get five pieces... you get the idea. We cap volunteers at 10 pieces, same as a swap pass.
🕸 Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)
When: Through April 11th
Where: The Shed at 545 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001
RSVP: $35 here
Through floating sculptures, interactive installations, and an artistic process that centers collaboration, often with spiders and their webs, Tomás Saraceno proposes a conversation between human and nonhuman lifeforms.
Particular Matter(s), Saraceno’s largest exhibition in the US to date, brings this layered approach together, celebrating the complexity of our collective existence while looking for ways to live together differently. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and a robust public program in partnership with the Columbia University’s Climate School.
Online Events
🎉 Work on Climate Success Stories
When: Tuesday, Feb 22 at 2:00pm EST (11AM PST)
RSVP: Free here
Join us for a panel event where active members of the WoCl community share their success stories in breaking into (or being involved in) climate work. They will share their journeys, their struggles, their words of advice, and their perspective with the rest of the community.
🌱 MIT Sustainability Summit: From the Ground Up
When: Friday, Feb 25, 2022 from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST
RSVP: $15 Student, $35 Academic/Nonprofit, $65 General Admission
The MIT Sustainability Summit will explore a variety of topics around environmental justice and grassroots action around sustainability. We look forward to bringing grassroots voices to the forefront, and engaging in an all-day celebration on February 25th, 2022.
The 2022 MIT Sustainability Summit will be held online and recorded for all participants to access.
Jobs
💎 Aether Diamonds
Aether is an award-winning climate tech startup and certified B-Corporation. We transform carbon captured from the atmosphere into breathtaking diamond gemstones. Aether has raised over $21M in funding to date and is growing quickly.
Marketing Analytics Manager
The Marketing team is seeking a Marketing Analytics Manager that will be responsible for continuously analyzing the performance of marketing spend throughout the organization and determining optimizations to increase monetization of marketing and hit additional non-sales KPIs like brand awareness and consideration. This role will report directly to our Head of Growth Marketing and will have a through-line to the executive team.
Social Media Associate
We are looking for a passionate Social Media Associate to join our in-house Marketing team. We are seeking a candidate who will help organically grow our brand presence online and build strong online communities across various social media platforms. In addition to managing day-to-day social activity, the candidate will collaborate with our Content Creator to create engaging and inspiring content that will help educate our followers and bring hope to our online communities. The ideal candidate has a good eye for trends, possesses a deep understanding of social media metrics, and understands how to execute on a well developed social media strategy. This position reports to our Social Media & Content Manager.
🏙 Blocpower
BlocPower is a minority-owned clean energy leader creating Smarter, Healthier, Greener Buildings for All by reducing the barriers to money-saving, quality-of-life-improving green building retrofits. We provide engineering, financing, and project implementation services for clients in frontline communities across the country.
VP, National Broadband Initiative
As VP of our National Broadband Initiative, you will lead our nationwide efforts to bring free and low-cost broadband to traditionally under-connected and marginalized communities. BlocPower is looking for a motivated, experienced, and kind-hearted executive who will bring an entrepreneurial spirit to the role and be able to see a stagnant industry through fresh eyes to take on incumbent ISPs. You have experience being accountable for P&L, and are technically proficient in all aspects of the business, including regulatory and legal requirements. You should have experience in the ISP and/or MNO industries, and be able to wear different hats as the state of the business evolves. You will work closely with our CRO and CEO on this important strategic initiative, lead a team that is responsible for the overall success of the program, define system architecture, sales strategy, customer acquisition, and manage day-to-day partnerships, operations and deployment.
General Manager, Building Data Collective
Climate change is happening and we believe the BDC has high urgency. BlocPower is looking for a motivated, experienced, and kind-hearted executive to spearhead this ambitious effort to help form and manage the Building Data Collective, an open source collaborative initiative. This individual will be responsible for the overall success of the program and will set the direction and strategy for the collective, as well as manage day-to-day operations.
Upcoming Events
March
March 4: First Friday Meetup
March 7: Jorge Otero-Pailos and Gisela Winckler - Climate and Society
March 8: 🗽 NY Climate Tech Meetup
March 22: ERA Climate Startup Pitch Night
March (TBD): Women and Climate NYC