NY Climate Tech: Mar 25 - Apr 1
NY Climate Tech: Mar 25 - Apr 1
Circularity happy hour, impact investing, women in tech, climate constitutionalism, and more events this week!
Hi friends,
The NY HEAT Act is gaining steam in Albany again, and just passed the Senate last week. The New York Times has a primer on it here, but the tl;dr is that utility currently have to pay to install new gas lines for customers within 100 feet of the pipeline, a cost subsidized by all ratepayers. The NY HEAT act would change that, requiring anyone who wants a new gas line to pay for it themselves, saving ratepayers $200 million. It’s currently with the state Assembly—you can find your assembly member here.
Here are our picks for the week:
On Monday, get happy hour with the ♻️ NYC Circularity Network at TALEA Cobble Hill
Wednesday, head to Impact Hub for 💸 Climate Change & Impact Investing
Join the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce on Thursday for a 👩🔬 Women in Tech Panel at NYU Tandon
Finally on Friday, throw the book at climate change with the ⚖️ Climate Constitutionalism Conference at Pace
As always, you can find the full list of this week’s and upcoming events below.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities team
This Week’s Events
♻️ NYC Circularity Network - March Meetup: Mon, Mar 25
🌬️ Outlook and implications for the U.S. energy industry: Mon, Mar 25
🏙️ From Urban Science to Sustainable Urban Systems Engineering: Tue, Mar 26
🐮 Milking Sustainability (with Taste): Dairy’s Role in Sustainable Farming: Wed, Mar 27
🌿 Going Green: Spring Renewal Rendezvous: Thu, Mar 28
🥗 Climate Fresk & Dinner at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market): Thu, Mar 28
👩🔬 Women in Tech Panel: Thu, Mar 28
⚖️ Climate Constitutionalism Conference: Fri, Mar 29
🌐 IPPA's 18th Annual Spring Summit: Fri, Mar 29
🧪 Applied: Vol 3: Mon, Apr 1
🌎 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!
Community Shoutouts
🌅 Climate Career Week - March 25-29 (Online): Mar 25
Join us for 5 days of free virtual events with leading climate founders, investors, and experts for those interested in exploring career opportunities in climate.
♻️ Earth Month Sculpture Project w/ Von Wong: Mar 29
Artist and activist @VonWong is currently working on an Earth month installation on the Highline in collaboration with Kiehls and Earth Day Initiative. We're opening up 3-4 daily volunteer slots from March 18- 29th to help with the fabrication each day at the SFDS Shop (239 Java St, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY 11222). You'll be diving into tasks like cleaning, sorting, processing, and painting, all within 3-hour blocks. Morning shifts run from 9-12 pm, and afternoon shifts from 1-4 pm. And hey, if you're feeling spirited and want to stay longer, we're all for it!
Upcoming
🧑🌾 Regenerative NYC: Apr 23
🤖 TechDay: May 10
Opportunities
📐 Third Derivative: Mar 31
We’re looking for world-changing climate tech startups with significant climate impact potential, addressing billion-dollar markets bringing innovations in hard science, hardware, software and business models to the world. If accepted, you’ll take part in our virtual, 18-month accelerator program.
☀️ Mária Telkes Fellowship: Mar 31
The Mária Telkes Fellowship is hosted by the Cleantech Leaders Roundtable and Clean Energy Business Network. Cleantech Leaders Roundtable (CTLR) is a community of peers including cleantech CEOs, investors, and influencers. This community facilitates trusted exchange of information, collective problem-solving through partnerships, and amplification of individual business and communications efforts. The Clean Energy Business Network (CEBN) is the small business voice for the clean energy economy, and partners closely with CTLR on events and industry collaboration.
⚡️ Offshore Wind Innovation Hub: Apr 1
The goal of the OWIH Accelerator is to support the growing offshore wind industry in New York, by bringing the most promising and impactful innovations to scale. To achieve this the program provides the selected cohort companies with bespoke support from all program partners to further technology development and commercialization goals.
Upcoming
🏙️ McKinsey InNYC: Apr 15
✨ Peerless Pitch Competition: Apr 26
🏙️ URBAN-X: Apr 30
👩🔬 The Greenhouse: Apr 30
🦚 Ray of Hope Accelerator from the Biomimicry Institute: May 3
💸 The Innovation Prize — InnSure: May 30
🏹 AI Poverty Challenge: May 30
💻 IRCAI and AWS Compute for Climate Fellowship | IRCAI: Jun 7
Upcoming Events
🌍 Stephanie Hanes on The Climate Generation at Hunter College: Tue, Apr 02
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Cocktails: Wed, Apr 03
👷♀️ WISE: Sustainable Career Showcase: Thu, Apr 04
🏳️🌈 Out in Climate — NYC Happy Hour hosted by EQT Partners: Thu, Apr 04
⚖️ ICGF- New SEC Developments- Climate Disclosure: Thu, Apr 04
🍻 First Friday Meetup: Fri, Apr 5
🌿 Impact & Sustainability Summit Hosted by GAIC X GWI: Sat, Apr 06
🍻 Net Impact Monthly Social Hour: Tue, Apr 09
⚖️ At the Crossroads of Data, Environmental, and Climate Justice: Wed, Apr 10
🍏 Transforming Education for Sustainability: Wed, Apr 10
⚡️ YPE NYC April Happy Hour: Thu, Apr 11
👗 Circular Fashion Playground: Sat, Apr 13
🧪 The Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology Symposium 2024: Thu, Apr 18
🧩 2024 NYILR Spring Symposium: Fri, Apr 19
This Week in Depth
♻️ NYC Circularity Network - March Meetup
When: Monday, March 25 · 6 - 8pm EDT
Where: TALEA Beer Co., 61 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us for the NYC Circularity Network's March Meet-up. The NYC Circularity Network is a series of meet-ups and events around the city for circular economy practitioners to connect, share ideas & resources, amplify voices, build power, and influence the direction of NYC's circular economy. Whether you're a sustainability enthusiast, an established professional, or simply curious about circularity, this event is open to all who wish to learn and contribute to the growing movement.
🌬️ Outlook and implications for the U.S. energy industry
When: Monday, March 25 · 5:30 - 8pm EDT
Where: The Swedish-American Chamber-Commerce, 900 3rd Avenue, #29th Floor New York, NY 10022
Panel discuss on topics such as geopolitical implications, energy transition and clean energy development.
🏙️ From Urban Science to Sustainable Urban Systems Engineering
When: Tuesday, March 26 · 11am - 12pm EDT
Where: 370 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
In light of climate change, building efficient and resilient urban infrastructures is becoming ever more critical. However, conventional planning approaches are becoming questionable, as they typically rely on “best practice” or simulation-based methods that do not sufficiently cope with the increasing complexity of our cities. This talk will discuss how combining computational methods with large-scale urban data allows gaining a much-needed, more profound understanding of the functioning of cities.
📈 Rise Presents: The Climate Thesis
When: Wednesday, March 27 · 6 - 8pm EDT
Where: Rise New York, 43 West 23rd Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10010
Over the past decade, FinTech has been highly effective at removing adoption barriers to traditional financial products and services. These same barriers can be seen in climate tech adoption making the current value of switching to climate solutions unclear and unattainable for customers.
🐮 Milking Sustainability (with Taste): Dairy’s Role in Sustainable Farming
When: Wednesday, March 27 · 5:30 - 7pm EDT
Where: HAYVN, 320 Boston Post Road Suite 180 Darien, CT 06820
Enjoy a lively discussion with action-packed industry insights while enjoying handcrafted artisan cheeses and fresh grass-fed yogurt shared from two of Connecticut's leading experts in the sustainable dairy and specialty cheese sectors.
💸 Climate Change & Impact Investing
When: Wednesday, March 27 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT
Where: 417 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Are you interested in knowing more about how increasingly extreme weather events may affect NYC in the coming decade? What if there was a way to invest where you would be able to know that your dollars can help to drive climate action? Join Domini Impact Investments, a long-time leader in sustainability, to learn more about investing with your values and about how your dollars can work to help address climate issues.
🌿 Going Green: Spring Renewal Rendezvous
When: Thursday, March 28 · 5 - 7:30pm EDT
Where: 48 East 21st Street New York, NY 10010
The built environment accounts for about 40% of annual global CO2 emissions which is why the industry is making strides toward reducing their carbon footprint. This course will equip architects and interior designers with knowledge about carbon emissions and its effect on the environment so they can make the best choices when specifying for different projects.
🥗 Climate Fresk & Dinner at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market)
When: Thursday, March 28 · 5:45 - 9pm EDT
Where: Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue New York, NY 10011
Want to help tackle climate change but don’t have the time to become a climate scientist? Join us for this fun and informative Game + Dinner night that has already been played by >1.5 M people worldwide!!
👩🔬 Women in Tech Panel
When: Thursday, March 28 at 12:00 PM
Where: New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Women in Tech panel discussion “Breaking the Glass Ceiling” at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn on March 28. Newlab Founder Fellow Marissa Beatty of Turnover Labs will be one of the speakers! Sponsored by Bank of America. Entry is free and lunch will be served.
⚖️ Climate Constitutionalism Conference
When: Friday, March 29 · 9am - 7pm EDT
Where: Pace University Pace University Campus New York, NY 10038
The impacts of climate change will increasingly strain our democratic processes and institutions even as we rely on those processes and institutions to produce the rapid changes necessary for transformational mitigation and just adaptation. Federal and state constitutions must meet this moment if we are to emerge with a healthy climate and functioning democracy. Understanding what, precisely, that means and how it can be accomplished is the purpose of this conference.
🌐 IPPA's 18th Annual Spring Summit
When: Friday, March 29 · 11am - 7pm EDT
Where: 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10012
Charting a sustainable future: IPPA Summit 2024 unites global and local leaders for policy and planning discussions on international. development.
🧪 Applied: Vol 3
When: Monday, April 1 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Where: RSVP for Location
Applied provokes meaningful connections across the expansive environmental and life science sector – sparking new projects, partnerships and promises for a vivid future. We gather forefront researchers and invite high-caliber individuals from many fields who can inspire and empower their work.