NY Climate Tech: May 20 - May 27
NY Climate Tech: May 20 - May 27
Food, Film, Port Authority Resiliency, Tom Steyer at the NYPL, a Climate Musical, Carbonauts, Science and Society, a performance on the Gowanus Canal, and more events this week!
Hi friends,
It was great to see so many of you at the NY Climate Tech meetups: from talking about the Climate Capital Stack with SVB to our regular meetup to an Saturday unconference (and those are just the ones we ran!), it’s always incredible to see just how vibrant NYC’s climate community is.
If you missed any of those events, we have one last one this month along with the Ceres Food Film Festival, the Climate Film Festival, and Rethink Food. Next Thursday, May 30th, join us at Rethink Food on Houston for 🎬 From Farm to Film: A Screening & Panel on Soil, Carbon, and Climate! This one is ticketed, but we’ll have Portuguese wines, upcycles bites, and a stellar panel.
In local news, things are heating up in Albany around the NY HEAT Act. The act removes subsidies for new gas hookups, saving utility rate payers from paying for gas expansion in new construction. The bill has passed the NY State Senate twice, but is stuck in limbo in the State Assembly, and there are only a little more time to get it through. Groups like Spring Street and pretty much every environmental advocacy group in NY State are trying to get it over the finish line. You can learn more about the bill in the NY Times.
Here are our picks for the week:
On Wednesday, head to midtown for 🌊 Climate Resiliency at the Port Authority of NY&NJ and then immediately after swing by the NYPL for 🌎 Tom Steyer with David Wallace-Wells on Winning the Climate War.
Feeling more off-Broadway? Also on Wednesday, swing by Judson Memorial Church at Washington Square for 🎶 Metra, a new climate musical in the works
On Thursday, pick between Williamsburg for 🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails and the UES for 👩🔬 Science, Society, and Sustainability - Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap at Germany’s 1014 5th Ave.
If you’re in town for the weekend, head to the Gowanus for 🛶 Unheard-of + The Gowanus Dredgers Present: Not in Fact Dead, an immersive performance on everybody’s favorite super fund site.
There are a ton of conferences happening this week, from Adapt and Carbon Unbound in our backyard to ARPA-E in Dallas, and many more in between. Are you interested in finding out about more big events in advance? Reply and let us know!
Finally, mark your calendars for our next 🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night with AWS, NYU, Streetlife Ventures on June 3rd for NY Tech Week.
As always, read on for the full list of events, a special offer from Renewables.org, and upcoming opportunities, and more!
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
PS: New Volunteer Opportunity!
If you’re interested in getting more involved in the climate community and interested in film, the Climate Film Festival is looking for a 💰Development Volunteer — apply here!
This Week’s Events
🧱 AIA Brooklyn COTE Tour: Parsons Healthy Materials Lab: Tue, May 21
🍀 SILC's May Business Networking Event: Tue, May 21
🌎 Tom Steyer with David Wallace-Wells: Winning the Climate War: Wed, May 22
🎶 Craig Urquhart in Concert * * A Benefit for 350NYC: Wed, May 22
✍️ Open Day + TALK + Happy Hour: Product Role in Sustainability and Inclusion: Wed, May 22
🎶 Metra: a Climate Revolution with Songs: Wed, May 22
🌊 Climate Resiliency at the Port Authority of NY&NJ: Wed, May 22
♻️ Design for a Regenerative Future a NYCxDesign Event: Wed, May 22
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails: Thu, May 23
👩🔬 Science, Society, and Sustainability - Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap: Thu, May 23
🌸 Collective Joy in the Climate Movement: A Youth Workshop: Sat, May 25
🛶 Unheard-of + The Gowanus Dredgers Present: Not in Fact Dead: Sat, May 25
Special Shoutout: 🌲 Bloomberg Green Festival
Looking for a summer trip? Head to Seattle and pair it with PNW Climate Week!
The world needs radical solutions to address global warming and climate change. Join us in Seattle July 10-13 for the inaugural Bloomberg Green Festival, a groundbreaking celebration of thinkers, doers and innovators leading the way into a new climate era. The festival will immerse attendees in solutions-driven experiences with world-renowned experts to inspire climate action. Get your tickets today.
Community Shoutouts
☀️ Renewables.org is offering free $25 investments to the New York Climate Tech Community
Renewables.org is the Global South solar investing non-profit that allows anyone to invest in solar across India and Africa, then get paid back monthly as they create an impact while selling clean electricity. For a limited time, Renewables.org is offering members of the New York Climate Tech community who have not yet invested a free $25 investment to get started. Just fill out the following form and you will receive a link to your free investment ASAP.
Opportunities
🪨 Frontier Fund: May 28
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $1B+ of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It was founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey and tens of thousands of businesses using Stripe Climate. For early-stage suppliers piloting new technologies, Frontier offers low-volume prepurchase agreements to accelerate development. Suppliers receive funds upfront, before tons have actually been delivered.
💸 The Innovation Prize — InnSure: May 30
A prize to support the creation of new insurance products and policies that fill gaps in the climate tech insurance market. The prize is backed by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), a public benefit corporation established in 1975, which works to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and emissions reduction across New York’s economy.
🏗️ Yard Labs - Brooklyn Navy Yard: May 30
Yard Labs is the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s piloting program, designed to accelerate the commercialization of emerging technologies that improve the lives of city dwellers. By providing a unique 300-acre testbed in the heart of New York City, our program gives companies a path to market validation with opportunities for data collection, user feedback, strategic partnerships, and more.
🏹 AI Poverty Challenge: May 30
Robin Hood is accepting applications for its AI Poverty Challenge, which will award three $1 million prizes for breakthrough AI solutions in three areas: education, workforce development, and financial empowerment.
🇺🇸 American Climate Corps: May 30
Join the next generation of creators, thinkers, leaders, and doers, working together to tackle the climate crisis. Help build a clean energy and climate-resilient future in your own community and across the nation.
Upcoming
🌎 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
🔮 Psychedelics for Climate Action (PSYCA) Launch: Tue, May 28
🐋 The Ocean Hope Project: Protecting the Deep Sea : Tue, May 28
🎬 From Farm to Film: A Screening & Panel on Soil, Carbon, and Climate: Thu, May 30
❇️ Eco-Critical Spatial Practices in Art and Design: Fri, May 31
🏥 Queens Summit 2024 - Climate Change and Sports The Power of Youth Advocacy: Sat, Jun 1
☕️ Climate Cafe at the Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island: Sat, Jun 1
🧑🌾 Private Sunset Tour @ Brooklyn Grange, World's Largest Soil Rooftop Farm: Sun, Jun 2
👾 NYC Tech Week: Mon, Jun 3
🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night - NY #TechWeek AI Edition - AWS, NYU, Streetlife Ventures: Mon, Jun 3
🏳️🌈 Out in Climate NYC Pride Month Happy Hour - Hosted by Wellington: Tue, Jun 4
📈 NY #TechWeek: How Tech Companies Can Harness Impact for Competitive Advantage: Tue, Jun 4
☕️ Climate Café at the Riverside Park, Manhattan: Wed, Jun 5
🗣️ In Our Words/En Nuestras Palabras: Climate Justice Storytelling Training: Thu, Jun 6
🎴 Climate Fresk at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market): Thu, Jun 6
🐳 Let's Talk Waterfront Sustainability: Sat, Jun 8
🧵 FABSCRAP BKLYN Volunteer: Saturday June 8th, AM Session: Sat, Jun 8
🎼 Accord Treble Choir presents: Urgent Earth (Brooklyn): Sat, Jun 8
🎨 The 2024 Arts & Climate Incubator Tickets: Mon, Jun 10
🦁 Comedy for Conservation!: Tue, Jun 11
🔌 NEEP Summit 2024: Tue, Jun 11
⚡️ The State of the Grid: Wed, Jun 12
🌿 Economist Sustainability "Week": Wed, Jun 12
🇬🇧 Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme Climatech Showcase 2024: Thu, Jun 13
🏳️🌈 Out in Climate NYC - Wastewater Facility Tour: Thu, Jun 13
💸 Green Fin: Mon, Jun 17
🌼 Echoes of Narcissus: Art Exhibition: Mon, Jun 17
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn - June 2024: Wed, Jun 19
🌆 Urban Future Forum: Equity in Piloting Climate Solutions: Tue, Jun 25
🔌 Global Energy Transition: Tue, Jun 25
🌻 Social Impact Summer Connector (In-Person in NYC): Tue, Jun 25
This Week in Depth
🧱 AIA Brooklyn COTE Tour: Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
When: Tuesday, May 21 · 4 - 6pm EDT
Where: 2 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011
Join the AIA Brooklyn COTE (Committee on the Environment) for a guided tour of Parsons Healthy Materials Lab.
🍀 SILC's May Business Networking Event
When: Tuesday, May 21 from 6 - 7:30pm EDT
Where: The Apsley, 2330 Broadway, New York, NY 10024
Join us for a night of drinks, food and good conversations! The Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC) was founded in 2015 to foster insight on how accountants and attorneys can incorporate sustainability practices that align economic opportunity with sustainable policies. SILC attracts members from the accounting, legal, compliance, and other professions across a variety of industries. SILC serves as a consortium for professionals to launch forward-looking concepts that will advance sustainability in their professions and companies.
🌎 Tom Steyer with David Wallace-Wells: Winning the Climate War
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 7 - 8 PM
Where: NYPL
The acclaimed investor and climate champion shares his unique and unvarnished perspective on how each of us can all fight climate change. Pre-order your copy of Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War and get your free ticket now!
🎶 Craig Urquhart in Concert * * A Benefit for 350NYC
When: Wednesday, May 22 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT
Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street New York, NY 10023
Join this evening with the composer/pianist Craig Urquhart, whose music has drawn critical acclaim from across the globe. The concert is a benefit for 350NYC, an organization which has been working for solutions to our climate crisis for more than a decade.
✍️ Open Day + TALK + Happy Hour: Product Role in Sustainability and Inclusion
When: Wednesday, May 22 · 10am - 8pm EDT
Where: 171 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016
We will explore how producers and designers can collaborate effectively to create products that promote both inclusivity and sustainability: a conversation about innovative approaches to product development that prioritize social and environmental responsibility.
🎶 Metra: a Climate Revolution with Songs
When: Wednesday, May 22 · 7:30 - 9:30pm EDT
Where: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
New musical about the transformative power of collective action in the face of the climate crisis, in a concert reading with Broadway stars! Our world is shaped by the stories we choose to tell. What if we made a new myth, for a new world?
🌊 Climate Resiliency at the Port Authority of NY&NJ
When: Wednesday, May 22 · 5:30 - 7pm EDT
Where: General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of The City of New York, 20 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036
This lecture will provide an overview of the Climate Resilience program at the Port Authority including: a history of major impacts to date and the policy and program efforts underway to mitigate climate risks going forward. From Superstorm Sandy to Hurricane Ida, we will walk through the major storm events, their impacts, and the lessons learned. With this history, we will also explain our science-based approach to manage climate risks and the cost-effective design solutions that are incorporated into Engineering projects.
♻️ Design for a Regenerative Future a NYCxDesign Event
When: Wednesday, May 22 · 5 - 7pm EDT
Where: MakerSpace NYC, 140 58th Street #Building B Unit 1C, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Catch the sunset at the Brooklyn Army Terminal with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Makerspace NYC on May 22nd from 5-7 pm to hear from some of the leading local organizations working to transform NYC into a more sustainable city. Attend for an evening of new connections and hear from organizations at the leading edge of climate tech and design. Learn how circular economy strategies supporting climate action and how it may impact your industry.
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails
When: Thursday, May 23 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: 366 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Lauren Graham (Cohort Leader, The Carbonauts) and Rivian invite you to join an upcoming, Carbonauts’ Sustainability Mocktails in New York City! Join us for complimentary, sustainable non-alc drinks, accompanied Rivian test drives, a raffle from Switch Everything, and inspiring convos!
👩🔬 Science, Society, and Sustainability - Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap
When: Thursday, May 23 · 6:30 - 8pm EDT
Where: 1014 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028
In an increasingly interconnected world, where the pursuit of sustainability transcends boundaries, are we doing enough to apply our scientific knowledge to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a sustainable society? Do we already have all the knowledge and ideas to manage the climate crisis, requiring only sufficient funding and political will? What are the differences in goals and measures between the United States and Europe?
🌸 Collective Joy in the Climate Movement: A Youth Workshop
When: Saturday, May 25 · 11:30am - 3:30pm EDT
Where: Governors Island Teaching Garden, 778 Enright Road New York, NY 10004
Join Our Climate and GrowNYC for an in-person gathering hosted at GrowNYC’s Teaching Garden, a one acre urban farm located on Governors Island, where we will explore the role of joy and collective action in the climate movement.
🛶 Unheard-of + The Gowanus Dredgers Present: Not in Fact Dead
When: Saturday, May 25 · 8 - 9:30pm EDT
Where: Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, 2 19th Street Brooklyn, NY 11232
Join Unheard-of Ensemble and the Gowanus Dredgers for the paddle-in premiere of new works by Unheard-of as they kick off the 2024 Cultural Ecologies Season! The first season performance features ensemble members and composer-performers Ford and Iva presenting two premieres. Ford’s work sets the murky, sentimental poetry of Brad Vogel, Gowanus local and former Dredgers captain with video created in collaboration with artist Bonnie Ralston, while Iva’s work explores her connection to her Mexican culture through Aztec myth.