NY Climate Tech: June 19 - June 26
Energy week, clean transit, marketing for climate tech, designer farm tours, sustainable fashion, climate cafes and green drinks, and more events this week
Hi friends,
It’s New York Energy Week — we don’t list everything here, so if this is your jam, go ahead and click through for the full list. Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of other electrifying events this week!
Here are our picks:
On Wednesday, learn about transit, equity, and opportunities through the 🚊 Clean Transit Access Program, featuring NYC’s Dollaride and hosted by UFL
Dial into the 📈 The Demand Creation Playbook for B2B Climate Tech on Thursday to learn about marketing and sales strategies for climate startups.
Also on Thursday, head to Brooklyn for the 💡 2023 Energy Summit & Expo, not officially part of Energy Week but our definitive pick, with a great speaker lineup.
On Sunday, join Climate Designers NYC for a 👩🌾 Brooklyn Grange Farm Tour.
As always, scroll on down for the full list of events!
Cheers,
The NY Climate Tech Team
Community Shoutouts
🤖 Make It in Brooklyn AI Tech for Good Pitch Contest
Artificial Intelligence technology is abuzz right now as automated tech systems and machine learning are quickly becoming integrated into everyday life. Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is bringing together a top selection of Brooklyn-based startups that are applying innovative AI technology to serve humankind and the environment. If your company seems like a good fit, be sure to apply for a chance to win a $5,000 cash prize!
🔋 How to Decarb a State
Win Climate just released an incredible video on just what it takes to electrify NY!
🎓 College to Climate
Apply for a 4-week program dedicated to educating college students on the climate space and how to land your first climate job. Come listen to young professionals speak on their climate journeys, sharpen your outreach skills, and expand your climate impact knowledge.
Events This Week
⚡️ New York Energy Week: Tue, Jun 20
☀️ 2023 NYC Solar + Storage Summit: Tue, Jun 20
🔌 2023 Renewable Energy Conference: Tue, Jun 20
⚖️ Scaling Justice: Wed, Jun 21
👖 Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA: Wed, Jun 21
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn: Wed, Jun 21
🚊 Climate is the New Economy: Clean Transit Access Program: Wed, Jun 21
💡 2023 Energy Summit & Expo: Thu, Jun 22
📈 The Demand Creation Playbook for B2B Climate Tech.: Thu, Jun 22
🌳 Climate Cafe NYC: Thu, Jun 22
🇬🇱 Billy Fleming, “Fire, Ice, and Ore”: Thu, Jun 22
👩🌾 Climate Designers NYC x Brooklyn Grange Farm Tour: Sun, Jun 25
💧 Bringing Water to Light: An Artist Workshop for Flushing Creek: Sun, Jun 25
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Events This Month
🌱 How to Start a Sustainable Life? by Closiist: Mon, Jun 26
🍻 NYCDR Happy Hour - Special Edition with C2V's Year 3 Cohort and Urban Future Lab Community: Thu, Jun 29
🏗️ Future-Proofing New Construction: Thu, Jun 29
Events This Week
⚡️ New York Energy Week
When: Tue, Jun 20th at 9:00 AM to Fri, Jun 23rd at 5:00 PM
Where: Multiple Events, New York, New York
Created in 2013, New York Energy Week is the industry’s comprehensive cross-sector, annual event series uniting the diverse sectors of energy. The week-long event series is “by the industry, for the industry”, inviting all energy stakeholders to come together and help drive forward our global energy economy.
☀️ 2023 NYC Solar + Storage Summit
When: Tue, Jun 20th from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: John Jay College Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 W 59th St, New York, NY 10019, USA
Join Sustainable CUNY, New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), and hundreds of clean energy professionals from the public and private sectors for a full day conference and trade show highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and emerging trends for how New York City will drive our clean energy transition.
🔌 2023 Renewable Energy Conference
When: Tue, Jun 20th at 5:30 PM to Wed, Jun 21st at 4:00 PM
Where: Pace University, Westchester Campus, Pleasantville, New York
This year, the conference will focus on the work of the Climate Action Council established under the CLCPA to implement the Act’s mandates. Panels will explore the ambitious goals for the development and deployment of offshore wind and solar resources, the reduction in fossil generation, and adding energy storage. How business, resident, and customer requirements will be impacted by CLCPA program roll outs will also be investigated by our panels of experts.
⚖️ Scaling Justice
When: Wed, Jun 21st from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: TBD, Manhattan, New York, NY
In advance of the NEXUS Global Summit in NYC, Justice Capital and Orchid Capital Collective are co-hosting Scaling Justice, a day long convening of family offices, foundations, and impact investors interested in the cutting edge of impact investing to learn about integrated capital structures that deliver Equitable environmental and social impacts, Sustainable financed solutions for scale, Risk adjusted returns for investors, and Community wealth building to address the gender and racial wealth gaps.
👖 Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA
When: Wed, Jun 21st at 9:00 AM to Thu, Jun 22nd at 3:00 PM
Where: 2 W Loop Rd, Cornell Tech, New York City, 10044
This two-day business conference will address how brands can adapt practices to deliver on ambitious commitments and growing stakeholder expectations. We’ll equip delegates with the best-practice and guidance to develop net-zero strategies, transform supply chains, manage consumer communications, scale circularity, reduce waste, and drive positive social impacts.
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn
When: Wed, Jun 21st from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Estuary Brasserie & Bar, 159 Bridge Park Drive, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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.
🚊 Climate is the New Economy: Clean Transit Access Program
When: Wed, Jun 21st from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: NYU Tandon, 370 Jay St. Floor 12, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The second Climate is the New Economy event will focus on Transportation - diving into the case study of the Clean Transit Access Program (CTAP). If you've ever been to NYC, you know that some parts of the city are more easily accessible than others. And while many people have heard of the concept of 'Food Deserts' - areas where food is scarce - 'Transit Deserts' also exist and affect every aspect of community life.
💡 2023 Energy Summit & Expo
When: Thu, Jun 22nd from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce will host its second annual Energy Summit and Trade Expo on Thursday, June 22nd at Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The theme of this year’s daylong event is “SCALING UP” and will feature remarks, a keynote speech, and breakout panel discussions with leaders from the public and private sectors in the field of renewable energy.
📈 The Demand Creation Playbook for B2B Climate Tech.
When: Thu, Jun 22nd from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: Online
In this webinar, our panel will discuss the demand creation playbook for B2B Climate Tech companies. With Sam VIskovich, CMO of UTTR, Mark Fosdike, CEO of Datch, Lisbeth Kaufmann, Head of Climate Tech Startups BD at AWS, and Micah Kotch, Partner at Blackhorn Ventures.
🌳 Climate Cafe NYC
When: Thu, Jun 22nd from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Neighbor, 176 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Join for a Climate Cafe on June 22nd to discuss the difficult emotions that arise out of the ongoing climate emergency. Climate Cafes represent an opportunity to discuss difficult emotions that arise out of the climate crisis - everything from anxiety, fear, dread, hopelessness, and anger - in a supportive environment of peers. Climate Cafes are non-clinical, non-directive spaces where attendees can hold space for each others’ emotions without trying to fix other people. At it’s core, it can be meaningful to spend time with others who feel the same way.
🇬🇱 Billy Fleming, “Fire, Ice, and Ore”
When: Thu, Jun 22nd from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: e-flux, 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
“Fire, Ice, and Ore” is presented as part of e-flux Architecture Lectures, a monthly series inviting researchers and practitioners to discuss timely issues in contemporary architecture, theory, culture, and technology. This lecture will situate Greenland within the global energy transition and implicate its future in that of the Global North. Put another way, this lecture will ask what it means for resource communities like Narsaq, Greenland for the U.S. and other imperial powers to pursue the kind of resource-intensive energy transition that is now underway.
👩🌾 Climate Designers NYC x Brooklyn Grange Farm Tour
When: Sun, Jun 25th from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: Brooklyn Grange, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Climate Designers NYC is celebrating summer Chapters' Week with an urban farm tour, followed by a social and networking hangout. Join us to connect with other local sustainability-minded designers, share ideas, find collaborators, and get inspired! We'll be starting the event with a 1-hour tour of the rooftop farm at Brooklyn Grange Navy Yard. After the tour, we'll move on to Transmitter Brewing for a social and networking gathering.
💧 Bringing Water to Light: An Artist Workshop Series for Flushing Creek
When: Sun, Jun 25th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Where: Queens Museum, Meridian Road, Queens, NY 11368
Please join us for a series of artist-led workshops that will visualize the possibility of daylighting Flushing Creek. Flushing Creek was artificially forced underground at sections into pipes for the construction of the 1939 World’s Fair grounds and now runs beneath and through the center of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Daylighting, or restoring underground portions of a waterway into above ground habitats, has immense benefits for social-ecological health and climate resilience.
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A Global Network of Local Communities
We are expanding! We started as an 8-person dinner and now have over 7,000 members in our community. We’ve had people across the world reach out to us to start their own chapters - so we’re launching a new Climate Tech Cities organization this year! If you have friends who are interested in becoming chapter leads, please share the word. Here’s to a global network of local communities making a positive impact!
Climate Tech Cities x Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Networks
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. Streetlife Ventures, co-founded by Climate Tech Cities’ very own Sonam Velani, is excited to support these efforts across our community. We can’t wait to hear from you!