NY Climate Tech: July 22 - July 29
Climate clock, movies in the park, summer happy hours, bat VR, solar power for artists, and more events this week
Hi friends,
A short one this week—we’ve been busy cooking up the first version of our Climate Week guide, coming soon.
Here are our picks for the week:
Today head to Union Square to see the ⏰ Climate Clock tick below 5 years
Also today, it’s Alec’s birthday 🎂
Wednesday, bring your picnic blanket to Fort Greene Park for 🦋 The Night Visitors with Rooftop Films
Also Wednesday, talk carbon removal at Isometric’s office at 🍻 New York CDR Community Drinks or head to the Navy Yard for 🍹 Newlab's Summer Member Happy Hour
On Friday, stretch your senses into the nonhuman world with 🦇 BATOPIA - a VR experience in the eye of a bat (cf: What is it Like to Be a Bat, An Immense World)
Get artistic over the weekend with Alex Nathanson’s ☀️ Solar Power for Artists Workshop Series (highly recommended!) or head to Governor’s Island for the 🎨 LAST WEEKEND: Entangled Futures Artist Talk + Closing Party
And don’t miss our 🗽 NY Climate Finance Rooftop Happy Hour on Wed, Aug 7. For everyone who already signed up: we have limited space, but approvals are on the way!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
This Week’s Events
⏰ Climate Clock: Climate Emergency Day 2024: Mon, Jul 22
🍎 Teacher Professional Development: Climate Change: Tue, Jul 23
☕️ Climate Café at The Brooklyn Public Library: Wed, Jul 24
🦋 The Night Visitors: Wed, Jul 24
🍻 New York CDR Community Drinks: Wed, Jul 24
🍹 Newlab's Summer Member Happy Hour: Wed, Jul 24
🍸 Green Drinks Newark: Thu, Jul 25
🦇 BATOPIA - a VR experience in the eye of a bat: Fri, Jul 26
☀️ Solar Power for Artists Workshop Series: Sat, Jul 27
Community Shoutouts
💸 Climate Capital Summit
Planning for Cimate Week already? The 2024 Climate Capital Summit is an invite-only gathering that brings together the industry’s leading innovators, investors, executives and policymakers - taking place on Wednesday 9/25 during NY Climate Week. If interested in attending, please request an invite here.
Opportunities
👩💻 Nonprofit Eng(ine): Jul 26
Know any US nonprofits building innovative tech to advance social & economic opportunity? AlleyCorp’s Nonprofit ENG(INE) program will deliver $1 million in awards to four eligible nonprofits.
🌌 Endless Frontier Labs: Jul 31
EFL is a free, no-equity program at NYU Stern that matches tech startups with MBA students who provide you with business development support for nine months, and offers access to NYU’s network of investors and scientific experts.
💧 Environmental Tech Lab: Aug 1
The Environmental Tech Lab provides an accelerated pathway for early to growth-stage companies to solve challenges facing the New York City’s water and wastewater network which serves residents in the nation’s largest city.
💨 2024 Cleantech Open Northeast Direct Air Capture Academy: Startup Application: Aug 2
Cleantech Open Northeast, NECEC was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Direct Air Capture (DAC) Pre-Commercial Energy for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize to run the 2024 DAC Academy. This is an accelerator tailored to DAC startups. Each of five (5) DAC startups in the 2024 Cleantech Open Northeast DAC Academy cohort will receive a $10,000 cash award upon completion of the DAC Academy accelerator program.
🌎 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!
Upcoming Events
🛢️ Info Session & Walking Tour of NYC's Largest Fossil Fuel Depot: Thu, Aug 1
🧬 Applied: Vol 6: Thu, Aug 1
FoodHack New York City: Food Upcycling and Waste Reduction: Tue, Aug 6
🗽 NY Climate Finance Rooftop Happy Hour: Wed, Aug 7
🍀 Net Impact Monthly Social Hour: Tue, Aug 13
🌃 Urblandia x citizenM (NYC Bowery): Wed, Aug 14
☀️ Solar New-York Show International 2024: Tue, Aug 20
This Week in Depth
⏰ Climate Clock: Climate Emergency Day 2024
When: Monday, July 22 at 12PM ET
Where: Union Square, New York, NY
On Monday July 22 2024, the Climate Clock will tick down below five years for the first time, a key milestone for humanity that will spark a wave of synchronised actions around the world, demanding an end to fossil fuels, and pushing leaders to #ActInTime to accelerate real climate solutions. Beneath the giant Climate Clock in Union Square we will gather to witness the clock ticking down at 12PM ET, and launch into action in solidarity with actions across the world. The event will feature speakers from frontlines communities impacted by climate change, Summer of Heat on Wall St, NY City Council, Climate Clock and more.
🍎 Teacher Professional Development: Climate Change
When: Tuesday, July 23 · 9am - 12:45pm EDT
Where: Governors Island Teaching Garden, 778 Enright Road, New York, NY 10004
GrowNYC and New York Agriculture in the Classroom are collaborating for a hands-on professional development experience focusing on climate change and collective action for classroom communities. Teachers of all grade levels will learn best practices for teaching these concepts in a school garden or a classroom.
☕️ Climate Café at The Brooklyn Public Library
When: Wednesday, July 24 · 6 - 7:45pm EDT
Where: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
Come and have open and meaningful conversations about the climate crisis; share your ideas, listen to inspiring talks, learn about local initiatives and emotional resilience tools and connect with like-minded individuals. Join us to become a part of a network of thousands of activists and concerned citizens through climate cafés worldwide.
🦋 The Night Visitors
When: Wednesday, July 24 from 7:30 - 10:30pm EDT
Where: Fort Greene Park, North Portland Avenue & Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
The Night Visitors is a movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely considers these underknown creatures. While The Night Visitors is interested in moths as organisms, with fascinating life histories, staggering biodiversity, and a functional importance as indicators of climate change and habitat degradation, its engagement with them is not primarily entomological. Instead, the film looks at moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning, aiming for a deep encounter with the beauty and incommensurability of the profoundly other.
🍻 New York CDR Community Drinks
When: 1216 Broadway, New York, NY
Where: Wednesday, July 24 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Isometric is hosting a casual drinks event for New York's carbon removal and climate tech communities at 530pm on Wednesday 24th July 2024 and we’d love to have you join us. We’re not planning any presentations or panels. Just cold drinks, good snacks, and friendly people.
🍻 Newlab's Summer Member Happy Hour
When: Wednesday, July 24 · 5 - 8pm EDT
Where: Newlab, 19 Morris Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
Join us at Newlab for our Summer Happy Hour! Invite your friends and colleagues and enjoy great drinks, food, music, and summer vibes! Join us on Wednesday, July 24th, at Brooklyn HQ with fellow members for food, games, drinks, music, and a good time.
🍻 Green Drinks Newark
When: Thursday, July 25 · 6 - 8pm EDT
Where: All Points West Distillery, 73 Tichenor Street, Newark, NJ 07105
The Newark Green Team invites you to fun evening at All Points West Distillery for our inaugural Newark Green Drinks! This in-person event is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who care about the environment. Enjoy refreshing drinks, engaging conversations, and learn about sustainable initiatives in our community. Whether you're a long-time environmental advocate or just starting to go green, this event is for you. Let's raise a glass to a greener future together!
🦇 BATOPIA - a VR experience in the eye of a bat
When: July 26 · 1pm - July 27 · 8pm EDT
Where: 162 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
BATOPIA is an interactive VR experience that lets the player see the world through the eyes of a bat via Embodied Virtuality. Batopia simulates a bat’s sensory umwelt through conceptual, technological, and imaginative lenses, immersing the player in the world of an animal with sensory modalities very different from our own. The experience connects people with nonhuman animals by, as philosopher Elizabeth Grosz says, opening them up to the “universe of becoming-other” through the active sensing and navigation of a unique nonhuman experienced world.
☀️ Solar Power for Artists Workshop Series
When: Saturday, July 27 & Sunday, July 28
Where: Flux IV, 56- 21 2nd Street, Queens, NY 11101
Learn about solar powered sound art, kinetic sculpture, design methods, and more! These workshops are for adults. Workshop sessions include solar power art design methods, solar power sound art, and solar powered kinetic art. Participants will build small solar art projects they can take with them. We will discuss the history of artists working in the field, common conceptual approaches, and a number of technical methods. No prior experience with solar power or electronics is necessary.
🎨 LAST WEEKEND: Entangled Futures Artist Talk + Closing Party with Samar Hussaini, Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres, and Prashant Babu
When: Saturday, July 27 from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Where: Governor's Island, New York, NY
These artists not only create striking work, but they also spark questions about what it truly means to live in a way that honors the deep interconnections we have with land, ancestors, each other, and the debris we create or instigate. This conversation will be moderated by Entangled Futures Art Director, climate communications researcher, and artist Hailey Basiouny.