NY Climate Tech: Nov 6 - Nov 13
NY Climate Tech: Nov 6 - Nov 13
Go Vote! Then enjoy climate board games, sustainability meetups, hydroponics, and more.
Hi friends,
It was fantastic to see so many of you at our NY Climate Tech pitch night! The turnout was great, the vibes were good, and the startups were incredible. Thanks again to NYCT team organizers Lisa Mallner and Edoardo Italia, and our sponsors Arc, Goodwin Proctor, and SOSV. If you missed it, here’s who pitched:
👩🔬 StillBright uses electrochemistry to smelt copper. Pitched by Katharine Greco, CTO.
🔋 Metal Light uses recycled metal and air to generate electricity. Pitched by Ryan Goethals, CEO.
🫧 Generation Conscious is selling loads of low-energy, low-waste laundry solutions. Pitched by Greg Genco, CEO.
🌿 Carbon Pilot makes it easy to sell and certify CO2 removal. Pitched by Tristan Springer, CEO and John Bogil, CTO.
☀️ Arken Solar helps community solar scale with speed. Pitched by Clara Zou, CEO.
And now, here are our picks for the week:
Enjoy board games? Join the 🎲 What is climate change? Game night on Monday evening. Comes with a home-cooked meal made with love from refugee chefs across NYC.
On Tuesday, go vote! Then head to the Poster House for 🖼️ Election Day Teacher Professional Development: We Tried to Warn You! - a guided tour of the new show and how to bring environmental justice posters back into our classrooms.
😁 How to reduce energy consumption in fashion? Find out on Wednesday with our friends at the World Citizen Forum.
Hang with your favorite Climate Techies for the 🌍 Climate Techies NYC Monthly Member Sustainability & Networking Meetup on Thursday.
Close out the week with the 🌱 Home Hydroponics Master Program on Sunday in at Mi Oh Farms in The Bronx!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
Community Shoutouts
🚴♀️ Green City Force Tour de Farms (Nov 18)
Green City Force is a nonprofit organization based in New York City that focuses on training young adults from low-income communities in urban agriculture and environmental stewardship. Its mission is to empower these individuals to address environmental issues while also providing them with job skills and opportunities.
Opportunities
👩🏻🔬 Breakthrough Energy Fellows (Due Nov. 8)
Calling all climate technology innovators - applications are OPEN for Cohort 4 of the Breakthrough Energy Fellows program. If you’re a scientist, engineer, or founder who is working on deep tech to decarbonize industry, generate new materials, build energy innovations, help us adapt to a changing climate, or get to a net-zero economy - please apply! Fellows will receive R&D funding, curated curriculum, access to a world class network, and engagement with mentors - to help them move from the lab bench to leading a company that can have global impact.
🌱 ReGen Accelerator (Due Nov. 15)
Are you a seed-stage climate tech startup striving to reduce the material impact of greenhouse gas emissions? Then you can apply now to Kaplak Ventures' "ReGen Accelerator", a three-month program for founders working to decarbonize at industrial scale. For more information, email contact@regenaccelerator.tech
✨ NYCEDC Founder Fellowship 2024 (Due Dec. 5)
Applications are now open for the 2024 Founder Fellowship which will provide 60 diverse tech startups across NYC with access to networking, fundraising, mentorship, business development, and other opportunities necessary to build and scale their enterprises. New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is partnering with Chloe Capital, Company Ventures, Newlab, and Visible Hands to host four unique Founder Fellowship cohorts in spring 2024.
🔌 NextEra Energy 2024 Seed Competition (Due Dec. 8)
NextEra Energy Investments is holding a seed investment competition for pre-Series A companies focused on cybersecurity, data & AI, decarbonization and/or energy transition. Up to 10 winners can be selected to receive up to $500,000 in seed capital investment.
⚒️ Pilots at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (Rolling deadline)
Through the Pilots at BAT program, companies will benefit from high visibility proof-of-concept opportunities in a live environment; direct connection to NYCEDC; and support with necessary permitting, contracting, and site access.
🏢 Urban Tech XChange (Rolling deadline)
Streetlife Ventures' friends at Bedrock, Bosch, Cisco and KODE Labs have launched the Urban Tech Xchange (UTX) in Detroit, a physical ecosystem for startups to pilot and scale projects in a real-world environment. Using Bedrock's 19M sf of real estate and a unified energy management system, UTX seeks startups that tackle modern cities’ biggest challenges - such as new building, energy, mobility, waste, and water tech.
🌇 $10M Empire Technology Prize (Due Mar. 24)
The Clean Fight and RMI are excited to open up applications for the $10M Empire Technology Prize, supported by NYSERDA and Wells Fargo. The Prize is focused on developing and demonstrating innovative solutions that make it easier for building owners across the economic spectrum to decarbonize the heating load of New York’s tall buildings.
Events This Week
🎲 #1 What is climate change? Game night: Mon, Nov 6
🌍 Energy Efficiency: Unlocking Climate Action in Schools: Tue, Nov 7
🖼️ Election Day Teacher Professional Development: We Tried to Warn You!: Tue, Nov 7
🌍 Dept. of Performance Studies Climate Change Forum: Tue, Nov 7
🏢 Contractor Action Summit: LL97 (Article 321) & Future of Affordable Housing: Wed, Nov 8
😁 #2 How to reduce energy consumption in fashion?: Wed, Nov 8
🌱 From Field to Form: Hemp: Wed, Nov 8
⚡️ DERvos V2R After-after party hosted by DER Task Force and SOLARPUNKS: Thu, Nov 9
🌍 USGBC NJ 2023 Leadership Awards: Thu, Nov 9
📚 Book Launch: Multicene by Nicodemus Nicoludis: Sat, Nov 11
🌱 Home Hydroponics Master Program (In Person): Sun, Nov 12
🎵 Bop Kabbalah+Voices: Yiddish Climate Justice Songs: Sun, Nov 12
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
😁 How does energy in food production relate to climate change?: Mon, Nov 13
🎨 Exhibition Opening: Atmospheres: Mon, Nov 13
🧵 Future Fabrics Expo NYC Edition: Tue, Nov 14
🌇 2023 Urban Tech Summit: Tue, Nov 14 and Wed, Nov 15
🌱 Solar One's Catalyst: Sustainable Intiatives for a Greener NYC: Tue, Nov 14
🌱 ArchNative: Women In Sustainability Panel Discussion: Tue, Nov 14
🌱 Metabolism of Cities - Pt. 2: Wed, Nov 15
🌍 Government Outlook on Sustainability Policies: Monthly Sustainability Group [Darien, CT]: Wed, Nov 15
🌍 CT Govt Outlook Sustainability Policies/Progress: Sustainability Group Mtg: Wed, Nov 15
🌍 Sustainability & Inclusion with Rohit Burman and Ngozi Okaro: Wed, Nov 15
😁 #5 How to manage energy in New York?: Wed, Nov 15
🌳 HEC Paris / EcoLearn & CSR Leaders - Impact Box Workshop and Dinner: Wed, Nov 15
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn - November 2023: Wed, Nov 15
💡 Clean Energy in New York Summit: Thu, Nov 16
🌱 URBAN OCEAN STEWARDSHIP : KELP CULTIVATION IN NYC: Thu, Nov 16
🌳 ‘Arbor’ World Premiere with Jody Sperling and Time Lapse Dance: Fri, Nov 17
🚴♀️ Green City Force Tour de Farms: Sat, Nov 18
👖 All About Denim: Sat, Nov 18
🌱 How can we increase the use of clean energy through laws?: Sat, Nov 18
🗽 What World do we want ?: Sun, Nov 19
☕️ Climate Cafe : Mon, Nov 20
🌍 CCNY Sustainability PSA Project - Screening Event & Internship Fair: Thu, Nov 30
📚 Introduction to Teaching Systems & Resilience Thinking for STEM Teachers: Sat, Dec 2
🎉 2023 Waterfront Alliance Holiday Party: Tue, Dec 5
💧 Urban Science Innovators Series: Joe Shuttleworth of Arup: Wed, Dec 6
☀️ Solar America Show International 2023: Tue, Dec 12
Event Details
🎲 #1 What is climate change? Game night
When: Mon, Nov 6th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Eat Offbeat, 75 9th Avenue, New York, NY
World Citizen Forum #1 - What is climate change? - Game Night! A workshop that aims at raising awareness and understanding among people about climate change. Join us for this fun and informative Game + Dinner night that has already been played by >1 M people worldwide! The workshop includes a full dinner featuring the best home cooking from around the world made with love by refugee chefs in NYC. The session also offers the opportunity to become a facilitator yourself and help raise awareness on the topic!
🌍 Energy Efficiency: Unlocking Climate Action in Schools
When: Tue, Nov 7th from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: Solar One, 9-03 44th Road, Queens, NY
Join the NYCPS Office of Energy and Sustainability and Solar One for a day of hands-on activities and training for teachers to integrate climate action and energy efficiency into their coursework. Teachers will receive a materials toolkit and up to 5 hours of professional learning credits. The program is free and covers costs through funding from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). Solar One's curriculum connects solar installations on school buildings to renewable energy and sustainability education.
🖼️ Election Day Teacher Professional Development: We Tried to Warn You!
When: Tue, Nov 7th from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Where: Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
Participate in a guided tour of the show, and learn more about bringing environmental justice posters back into the classroom with our Posters in Protest Educator Guide. Guests will then participate in a hands-on artmaking workshop with MFTA Master Teaching Artist Joy Suarez, focusing on sustainability, creative reuse, and activism. Educators will leave with classroom-ready materials and new ideas and strategies for integrating posters and sustainable artmaking into their curricula. Participants will also learn more about educational programming and warehouse shopping at Materials for the Arts. This professional development workshop is geared towards K-12 teachers.
🌍 Dept. of Performance Studies Climate Change Forum
When: Tue, Nov 7th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: 721 Broadway, New York, NY
Join us for an open discussion with PS students, staff, and faculty to brainstorm collective responses to the accelerating ecological disaster. We will hear from scholars, artists, and activists about local initiatives, and discuss potential actions at different levels--our neighborhoods, our university, the field of performance studies, etc.
🏢 Contractor Action Summit: LL97 (Article 321) & Future of Affordable Housing
When: Wed, Nov 8th from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Where: Building Energy Exchange, Inc., 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY
New York City Housing Preservation & Development invites you to an in-person info session and networking event for contractors. Learn about Local Law 97, incentives for LL97 compliance, build connections with other contractors, and meet resource vendors. Featured speakers include representatives from the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, New York City Housing Preservation & Development, and New York City Department of Buildings. Space is limited, reserve your spot for free today!
😁 #2 How to reduce energy consumption in fashion?
When: Wed, Nov 8th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: 417 5th Ave, 417 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The World Citizen Forum (WCF) is happening from November 6th to 18th. Our goal is to give New Yorkers the opportunity to learn about energy issues and to share their visions for a new kind of world. We invite you to join us and figure out how to make it happen!
🌱 From Field to Form: Hemp
When: Wed, Nov 8th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Wollman Hall, The New School, Eugene Lang Building, Room B500, New York, NY
From Field to Form is a series of events exploring the possibilities, life cycles, and architectural implications of plant- and earth-based materials.
🌍 Climate Techies NYC Monthly Member Sustainability & Networking Meetup
When: Thu, Nov 9th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Pete's Tavern, 129 E 18th St, New York, NY
Join the Climate Techies NYC Monthly Member Meetup to network with climate professionals and discuss the latest developments in climate tech and sustainability practices. This event is for tech enthusiasts, climate tech founders, climate VCs, sustainability consultants, and anyone interested in making a positive impact on the environment. Don't miss out on the chance to exchange insights on how technology can drive sustainability forward.
🌍 USGBC NJ 2023 Leadership Awards
When: Thu, Nov 9th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Montclair State University, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ
Join USGBC New Jersey for our 2023 Leadership Awards Celebration. Our Leadership Awards recognize excellence from local people, projects, and partners that are working to create better buildings and better lives for all. Come out and help us celebrate!
📚 Book Launch: Multicene by Nicodemus Nicoludis
When: Sat, Nov 11th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: POWERHOUSE Arena, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY
Multicene is a book that explores the various ways in which we understand and experience climate change, and how it affects our daily lives. Written by poet and writer Nicodemus Nicoludis, the book offers a conversation about ourselves and our impact on the planet.
🌱 Home Hydroponics Master Program (In Person)
When: Sun, Nov 12th from 2:00 PM to Sun, Dec 10{suffix(end.day)} at 4:00 PM
Where: 2550 Olinville Avenue, The Bronx, NY
Discover the Mi Oh My Farms Home Hydroponics Master Program! Join our 4-week course and learn the art of cultivating microgreens and mushrooms at home. Course includes practical skills, growing kits, personalized guidance, and a limited earlybird discount. Enroll now and start your journey towards self-sufficiency and sustainable living.
🎵 Bop Kabbalah+Voices: Yiddish Climate Justice Songs
When: Sun, Nov 12th from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Where: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Ty Citerman’s Bop Kabbalah+Voices presents a new Yiddish song cycle about climate justice, featuring vocalists Sara Serpa and Judith Berkson, with guest percussionist Shayna Dunkelman. Presented by the Neighborhood and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, sponsored by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund.