NY Climate Tech: Nov 14 - 21
NY Climate Tech: Nov 14 - 21
Deep tech, sustainable leadership, fashion, ESG, climate PR, and equity storytelling... and that's just Tuesday
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Hi all,
Start the week off today with a talk on soil-bacteria derived fiber as part of NY Jewelry Week (so many weeks). Tuesday is jam-packed, with meetups for pretty much everyone. Love science and hard problems? SOSV’s Deep Tech NYC Happy Hour. Business leadership? SILC's Sustainability Professionals Networking. Marketing? The meetup Advertising and PR Pros with Clean Creatives. Storytelling and equity? An Evening of Storytelling with Next100. Fashion? Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Women in tech? Tech Up For Women Conference. ESG in Fortune 500s? American Innovation Conference.
On Wednesday, learn about offshore wind with COPRI and NYSERDA, the phenomenology of and metabolism of cities with the Urban Soils Institute, How to Have a Low Waste Holiday Season with Greeningfullife and the NYC Fair Trade Coalition, or hear from climate startups at Green Drinks Brooklyn. On Thursday, dial into Climatebase Live: Tech Careers in Climate to hear from and talk to six innovative climate companies that are actively hiring software and product roles, then head to the Consulate of Brazil to learn about green finance and agriculture opportunities. Wrap up the day at Barnard with a screening of WATERMARK and discussion with the filmmakers.
Hot Take: Work on Climate
Layoffs have come for big tech, with Amazon announcing today that it would join the growing list of companies letting go of thousands of employees. For those looking for work, at least one area remains strong: climate tech is hiring. On Friday, CTVC reported that climate venture funds still have $37b ready to deploy to grow the ecosystem. For entrepreneurs and startups in climate tech, the future is still bright. And they need your help!
This Thursday, Climatebase is running an online session on Tech Careers in Climate, featuring WeaveGrid (EV support), Patch (carbon API), SINAI Technologies (decarbonization), Regrow AG (farming), Form Energy (energy storage), and Aurora Solar (solar software). All six companies are actively hiring software, product, and design roles.
When many people think of climate jobs, they think they need a degree in the field or that the only opportunities are in policy or for energy engineers. That couldn’t be further from the truth: climate needs people from all backgrounds and encompasses all sectors: from food to fashion, from virtual power plants to real estate.
Want to explore on your own? Check out Sonam’s tweet thread for an incredible, inspiring list of companies hiring in climate right now and VCs with job boards. Working in climate is working on the future, from plastic-eating enzymes to transforming some of the world’s biggest industries.
Looking for more? Join the Work on Climate and My Climate Journey Slack communities, discover jobs on Climatebase, connect with companies and mentors directly through Climate Draft, and start your climate education with Terra.do.
— Alec Turnbull
This Week
🧪 Khajornsak Nakpan on Bio Material Fibre at NYC Jewelry Week: Mon, Nov 14
🤖 Deep Tech NYC Happy Hour by SOSV's IndieBio and HAX: Tue, Nov 15
📢 NYC Meetup for Advertising and PR Pros, with Clean Creatives: Tue, Nov 15
🗣 Experience Is Expertise: An Evening of Storytelling with Next100: Tue, Nov 15
💡 American Innovation Conference: Tue, Nov 15
🤝 SILC's Sustainability Professionals Networking: Tue, Nov 15
👗 Sustainable Fashion Community Center - Times Square: Tue, Nov 15
👩💻 Tech Up For Women Conference NYC: Tue, Nov 15
⚓️ COPRI Met Section - November Lecture: Wed, Nov 16
♻️ Metabolism of Cities: Wed, Nov 16
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn: Wed, Nov 16
🗑 How to Have a Low Waste Holiday Season: Wed, Nov 16
💚 Climatebase Live: Tech Careers in Climate: Thu, Nov 17
🌊 WATERMARK: Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Thu, Nov 17
👩🌾 Agritalks - Green Finance in Brazil: New Developments & Opps: Thu, Nov 17
🥗 NYC Sustainability Happy Hour - November Dinner: Fri, Nov 18
🧪 Khajornsak Nakpan on Bio Material Fibre at NYC Jewelry Week
When: Mon, November 14, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Where: 200 Willoughby Ave 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
Khajornsak’s most widely known work is “Amplituhedron: Bio-Melanin Fibre Synthesised from Soil Bacteria to Design Innovative Zero Waste Body Adornment”. The research investigated the use of soil to create a biomaterial in Thailand. Bio-fibre was synthesised from soil bacteria, and the design process holistically considered the entire production cycle, ensuring that it left no waste. The final material contained melanin pigments similar to human skin tones, and their hues were comparable to those of the target groups in Thailand. Apart from this, it aims to maximise the value of natural resources in response to climate change based on harmonious living with nature. The study significantly contributes to the literature because it represents the forefront of biotechnology in philosophical aesthetics.
🤖 Deep Tech NYC Happy Hour by SOSV's IndieBio and HAX
When: Tue, November 15, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Where: GMT Tavern, 142 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012
Hosted by SOSV's deep-tech programs IndieBio and HAX; For the past year us and all of our community partners have helped bring the best parts of the ecosystem together . Researchers, Academia, Investors, Founders, Ecosystem builders. We're excited to see you all at this celebration, at a new location GMT Tavern. Good news for the academics - we've ordered lots of chicken tenders in advance.
📢 NYC Meetup for Advertising and PR Pros, with Clean Creatives
When: Tue, November 15, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Where: Hollow Nickel 494 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217
Join us for an NYC meetup for ad and PR professionals, organizers, and climate leaders! Connect with other leaders in our industry who are working to end fossil fuel misinformation and make climate action possible.
🗣 Experience Is Expertise: An Evening of Storytelling with Next100
When: Tue, November 15, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Where: Theater 555 555 West 42nd St New York, NY 10036
Policy is too often created without the voices of the people most impacted by it, which perpetuates long-standing injustice and inequity. The status quo is unacceptable. Next100 is working to change it.
Join Next100’s policy entrepreneurs as they share how their lived experiences intersect with the policy issues that drive them, and how they inform the policy solutions they have worked on over the past year. You’ll leave with a better sense of who each of our policy entrepreneurs is through their personal narrative, as well as with a stronger understanding of why you should care about the issues they are so passionate about and how we might begin to solve them.
💡 American Innovation Conference
When: Tue, Nov 15, 10:00 AM EST
Where: Fordham University School of Law - Costantino Hall 150 West 62nd Street New York, NY 10023
The American Innovation Conference is dedicated to sharing, collaborating, and celebrating customer-focused innovation and its impact on company success. Companies that are perceived to be innovative by their customers are more attractive, enjoy higher loyalty, and are ultimately more successful than companies that lag in innovativeness.
Sustainability Talks:
2:15-2:45 - SOCIAL INNOVATION PANEL: Making ESG Meaningful for Consumers
2:45-3:15 - SERVICES SOCIAL INNOVATION PANEL: Making Sustainability Everyone’s Job in the Company
🤝 SILC's Sustainability Professionals Networking
When: Tue, November 15, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Where: Local NYC West 33rd Street New York, NY 10119
Are you a professional in NYC who's interested in sustainability? Do you want to network with like-minded professionals?
Come and join us for an evening of drinks, food and great conversation. We encourage everyone from industry, NGOs and Government to come meet new people, bounce off ideas, and make new friends!
👗 Sustainable Fashion Community Center - Times Square GRAND OPENING
When: Tue, November 15, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Where: Sustainable Fashion Community Center - Times Square 1155 6th Ave New York, NY 10036
It's about to go DOWN. Celebrate The NYC Fair Trade Coalition homecoming as we make our way back down to midtown where it all began. Our goal is to create an oasis in Times Square where sustainable thinkers, fair trade advocates, and those who wish to support local economies can gather. Bring your ethics, clean out your closet, and show UP to support Fair Trade!
👩💻 Tech Up For Women Conference NYC
When: Tue, November 15, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM EST
Where: Jacob Javits Convention Center 655 W 34th St Special Events Hall 1D New York, NY 10001
We believe tech knowledge is critical for every career journey. Join us for a one day event to advance yourself through fast moving topics to embrace new ideas and innovation.
Tech Up for Women is a collaborative hub for the advancement of women through greater tech knowledge. We have built an engagement platform where we host conferences, trade shows, organize career & recruitment fairs, conduct the Tech Up Talks webinar series, and produce e-newsletters targeted at women in business. Tech Up for Women bridges the gap and connects women across all industries and job functions. Join our Tech Up Initiatives to advance yourself; Tech Up For Women
⚓️ COPRI Met Section - November Lecture
When: Wed, November 16, 5:30 PM EST
Where: ARUP, New York City Headquarters Office, 5th. Floor NY4 East River Conference Room 77 Water Street New York, NY 10005
New York State’s Climate Act enshrines the nation’s most ambitious energy transition targets including achieving 70 percent renewable electricity generation by 2030, 100 percent renewable electricity by 2040, and economy wide decarbonization by 2050. In support of those targets the Climate Act calls for 9 GW of offshore wind by 2035, and the New York State Climate Action Council draft scoping plan includes projections of a potential 20 GW of offshore wind by 2050. This lecture, given by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will discuss the growing offshore wind industry in New York from the basics of technologies, components, and project permitting, development and construction phases, to the unique advancements New York is making on transmission, supply chain, port infrastructure, and responsible development.
♻️ Metabolism of Cities
When: Wed, Nov 16, 9:00 AM – Thu, Nov 17, 5:00 PM EST
Where: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center at Governors Island 110 Andes Rd New York, NY 10038
Join the Urban Soils Institute & partners as we explore solutions & strategies for transforming urban supply chains into entire urban metabolisms, where natural and anthropogenic processes exist in a mutualistic relationship.
Phenomonology of Metabolism | Wednesday, November 16 | Phenomenology of Metabolism delves into the metabolic processes that sustain life and that can build or rebuild the foundations of sustainability by incorporating them into our cities, industries, suburban, agricultural, traffic, and mining, and conservation areas.
Metabolism Repair | Thursday, November 17 | Finding opportunities for restoring the living fabric of ecology into our built environments, recalibrating the waste stream-to work constructively together to transform the linear waste model to a circular model as in nature.
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn
When: Wed, November 16, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
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.
🗑 How to Have a Low Waste Holiday Season
When: Wed, November 16, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Where: FSCC Times Square Pop Up 1155 6th Avenue New York, NY 10036
The holiday season doesn't need to be wasteful. Learn how to celebrate with a lower environmental footprint! We'll be talking about sustainable fashion and gift giving, secondhand and thrifting, food production, food waste and so many more topics as it relates to the most wonderful (and wasteful) time of the year.
Our November holiday-themed workshop will be hosted at the brand new Sustainable Fashion Community Center Pop-Up in Times Square, hosted by Greeningfullife and NYC Fair Trade Coalition, to amplify the message of Conscious Consumerism this holiday season.
💚 Climatebase Live: Tech Careers in Climate
When: Thu, November 17, 1:15 PM - 3:30 PM CST
Where: Online
Climatebase Live is a new, curated, and invite-only event series designed to connect you with climate organizations that are actively hiring. Our very first event is focused on climate companies that are hiring tech talent: software engineering, product, design, and other roles — and we’ll be featuring six exciting employers hiring for these role types. Featuring:
WeaveGrid builds software to make it cheaper and safer for utilities to serve electric vehicles, add renewable energy resources, and save customers money.
Patch is the carbon credit platform for businesses and consumers to seamlessly contribute to trusted removal and reduction projects at any scale.
SINAI Technologies is a technology company focused on transforming the way companies price, analyze and reduce carbon emissions around the world.
Regrow AG's software enables them and their partners to transform farming, food systems, and the future of our planet.
Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round.
Aurora Solar is a fast-growing Series D company on a mission to create a future of solar energy for all.
🌊 WATERMARK: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
When: Thu, November 17, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Where: Lehman Auditorium, Columbia University in the City of New York Broadway and 117th Street New York, NY 10027
Award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned film photographer Edward Burtynsky, beautifully weave together diverse stories from around the globe that eloquently detail humanity's relationship with water through the ages: how we are drawn to it, how we use it, and the magnitude of our need for this rapidly depleting source.
👩🌾 Agritalks - Green Finance in Brazil: New Developments and Opportunities
When: Thu, November 17, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Where: Consulado do Brasil em Nova York 225 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017
The in-person event “AgriTalks – Green Finance in Brazil: New Developments and Opportunities”, where Brazilian government officials and representatives of the private sector from both Brazil and the U.S. will discuss the current state, perspectives and opportunities for the green finance market in Brazil.
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