NY Climate Tech: Oct 22 - Oct 29
Circular solutions, sustainable fashion, clean energy conferences, writing groups, design labs, and more upcoming events
Hi friends,
Here are our picks for the week:
Tuesday (today!) and Wednesday: Food & Fashion
Interested in the circular economy and sustainable food systems? Check out the two-day summit on 🥗 Innovative Circular Solutions to reduce Loss and Food Waste (Tuesday and Wednesday with experts from NYC, Brussels, and beyond.
Fashion focused? Head to Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island on Tuesday for 🧵 Wasted Textiles: A story about Slow Fashion and follow it up on Wednesday at the 🧶 Salon: Sustainability and Fashion on the Upper East Side
Thursday and Friday: Energy
Join YPE, Urban Future Lab, and NineDot on Thursday for a talk with Camus Energy and Latitude Media at 🔥 Fireside Chat: Future of the Power Grid
On Friday, Head to Newlab on for all things DER at ⚡️ Dervos 2024 or swing by the Brooklyn Army Terminal for the 🔌 Clean Energy Career Fair.
Saturday: Get Creative
Head to the Upper West Side for the ✍️ Climate Writing Club or go to Chinatown for the 10th annual 🎨 Civic Art Lab 2024| Sustainability and Design Lab
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
This Week’s Events
🧵 Wasted Textiles: A story about Slow Fashion: Tue, Oct 22
🥗 Innovative Circular Solutions to Reduce Loss and Food Waste: Tue, Oct 22
🧶 Salon: Sustainability and Fashion: Wed, Oct 23
🥕 Innovative Circular Solutions to Reduce Food Waste: Wed, Oct 23
📈 Fall 2024 Lecture in Climate Data Science: SHAWN LI: Thu, Oct 24
💰 Investing With Impact: A Discussion Around Values-Aligned Portfolios: Thu, Oct 24
🤖 101st NY Hardware Meetup // Software for Hardware: Thu, Oct 24
⚡️ Fireside Chat: Future of the Power Grid: Thu, Oct 24
🍺 Green Drinks Newark - October 2024: Thu, Oct 24
⚡️ Dervos 2024: Fri, Oct 25
🔌 Clean Energy Career Fair: Fri, Oct 25
☀️ Solar Site Tour – Explore Rooftop Solar in Action!: Fri, Oct 25
🌳 The Science of Forests: Sat, Oct 26
🎨 Civic Art Lab 2024| Sustainability and Design Lab: Sat, Oct 26
✍️ Climate Writing Club: Sat, Oct 26
🌎 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!
Opportunities
👩🔬 Activate Fellowship: Oct 23
Activate transforms scientists and engineers into founders, empowering them to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. The two-year Activate Fellowship provides early-stage science entrepreneurs with funding, technical resources, and unparalleled support from a network of scientists, engineers, investors, commercial partners, and fellow entrepreneurs.
Upcoming Events
📲 eWaste and Electronic Swap!: Tue, Oct 29
🧬 Applied: Vol 7: Wed, Nov 6
🎴 Climate Fresk at Eat Offbeat (Chelsea Market): Thu, Nov 7
🥕 plant-based supper club: land justice edition: Thu, Nov 7
🍏 Green Apple Trivia: Tue, Nov 12
🏙️ NYC Accelerator Open House: Wed, Nov 13
🥟 Data + Dumplings NYC #2: Wed, Nov 13
🏳️🌈 Out in Climate - Fireside Chat with NYC Climate Government Leaders: Wed, Nov 13
🏙️ Increase portfolio value and solve tenant issues with climate tech: Wed, Nov 13
✍️ How They Did It: Writing Climate Activism Across Genres (Aftershocks): Sun, Nov 17
🌇 Urban Tech Summit 2024 – Intelligence for Climate Adaptation: Tue, Nov 19
🍄 From Field to Form: Mycelium: Wed, Nov 20
🏗️ Cornell Infratech Day 2024: Thu, Nov 21
⚡️ Clean Energy in New York Summit: Thu, Nov 21
🔌 Deploy24: Wed, Dec 4
This Week in Depth
🧵 Wasted Textiles: A story about Slow Fashion
When: Tuesday, October 22 · 11am - 5pm EDT
Where: The Climate Imaginarium, Governor's Island
Come join us at The Climate Imaginarium for an eye-opening event on sustainable fashion! Discover the impact of fast fashion on our environment and learn about the benefits of embracing Slow Fashion. Let's delve into the world of upcycling, recycling, and reusing textiles to reduce waste and promote a more sustainable future. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the change!
🥗 Innovative Circular Solutions to Reduce Loss and Food Waste
When: Tuesday, October 22 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM EDT
Where: Register for Address
The world has witnessed ambitious sustainability targets set in Europe’s Green Deal and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. These policy objectives focus on tackling the most pressing global challenges. Inspired by these goals, Brussels and New York, seek to lead by taking the example set in Europe and at the UN and integrate sustainability into every part of their policy making processes, including in the global food system. One potential game-changing future redesign, which is gaining increased attention, is a circular food system.
🧶 Salon: Sustainability and Fashion
When: Wednesday, October 23 · 7 - 8pm EDT. Doors at 6:30pm
Where: Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street, New York, NY
Fast fashion is a major contributor to climate change, and the fashion industry is one of the largest polluters in the world. Sustainable fashion focuses on environmentally friendly practices, on using eco-friendly materials, reducing waste, and promoting fair labor practices and, by focusing on these aspects, the sustainable fashion movement seeks to mitigate the negative impacts of traditional fashion practices and promote a more responsible and ethical approach to clothing production and consumption.
🥕 Innovative Circular Solutions to Reduce Food Waste
When: Wednesday, October 23 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Where: Register for Address
Two panels: the first on innovative entrepreneurs in food upcycling and foodtech from Brussels and New York, the second on trends in impact investing.
📈 Fall 2024 Lecture in Climate Data Science: SHAWN LI
When: Starts on Thursday, October 24 · 12pm EDT
Where: Columbia Innovation Hub - Tang Family Hall, 2276 12th Avenue Room 202 New York, NY 10027
Traditional data assimilation techniques in weather forecasting focus on matching model parameters to observed state trajectories, such as daily temperature series. However, for climate modeling, capturing the long-term distributions of state variables—like the frequency and range of temperatures—is crucial. This talk introduces a new probabilistic framework designed to address this need by emphasizing probability density functions (PDFs) of state variables, using the Lorenz'96 system as a toy model.
💰 Investing With Impact: A Discussion Around Values-Aligned Portfolios
When: Thursday, October 24 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Where: 99 Hudson St. 17th Floor, New York, NY
Perigon Wealth Management and Ethic invite you and a guest to a discussion around values-aligned portfolios with drinks and light bites.
🤖 101st NY Hardware Meetup // Software for Hardware
When: Thursday, October 24 from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Where: Register for Address
The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce the 101st New York Hardware Meetup at Viam. Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network and learn from each other.
⚡️ Fireside Chat: Future of the Power Grid
When: Thursday, October 24 · 5:30 - 7:30pm EDT
Where: Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay Street 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us for an exclusive fireside chat and networking event to explore the future of the electric grid! This event will feature a conversation with Astrid Atkinson, CEO of Camus Energy, moderated by climate journalist Lisa Martine Jenkins of Latitude Media. Together, they’ll explore how the growth of electricity demand, spurred by electric vehicle adoption and AI data center expansion, is changing how utilities plan for and operate the electric grid.
🍺 Green Drinks Newark - October 2024
When: Thursday, October 24 · 6 - 8pm EDT
Where: Judith L. Shipley Urban Environment Center, 32 Prince Street Newark, NJ 07103
The Newark Green Team invites you to a fun evening of networking at the Greater Newark Conservancy's beautiful outdoor garden for Newark Green Drinks on Thursday, October 24th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.! This monthly in-person event is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who care about the environment. Enjoy refreshing drinks, engaging conversations, and learn about sustainable initiatives in our community. Whether you're a long-time environmental advocate or just starting to go green, this event is for you. Let's raise a glass to a greener future together!
⚡️ Dervos 2024
When: Friday, October 25 · 10am - 11:30pm EDT
Where: Newlab, 19 Morris Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Dervos is back, baby! If you missed out last year, this "unconference" is the only distributed energy event put on by the DERTFs, for the DERTFs. We're not backed by any corporation so there won't be any of that bs. We're currently working on a killer agenda and speaker lineup and if you'd like to shout out any ideas, please shoot us over an email.
🔌 Clean Energy Career Fair
When: Friday, October 25 · 10am - 3pm EDT
Where: Brooklyn Army Terminal Annex Building, 80 58th Street Brooklyn, NY 11220
This is your chance to meet representatives from Clean Energy Companies and organizations across New York. Don't miss this opportunity!
☀️ Solar Site Tour – Explore Rooftop Solar in Action!
When: Friday, October 25 · 3 - 5pm EDT
Where: 1475 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10029
Come join us for a solar site visit on the rooftop of Carver Houses to get an up-close look at how solar energy works and learn about its benefits firsthand! Whether you're curious about how solar systems work, considering signing up for solar, or interested in sustainability this tour will offer valuable insights.
🌳 The Science of Forests
When: Saturday, October 26 · 11am - 2pm EDT
Where: CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Saint Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, USA 85 Saint Nicholas Terrace New York, NY 10031
Understand NYC’s Urban Forests with Scientists at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center. These scientists are studying the effects of Climate Change on urban vegetation and natural areas. Featuring activity tables about dendrochronology, photosynthesis and more with scientists doing real-life studies on NY’s forests. Additionally, get a demonstration of our DIY air quality sensors using citizen science in the Community Sensor Lab!
🎨 Civic Art Lab 2024| Sustainability and Design Lab
When: Saturday, October 26 · 11am - 6pm EDT
Where: Mai House Studio, 99 Canal Street #4th Floor, New York, NY 10002
Our 10th annual Civic Art Lab celebrates a decade of creativity and sustainability leadership. This year, we explore sustainability interventions from the past, present, and future. We invite designers, artists, scientists, and sustainability professionals to reflect on their work, re-consider past initiatives, and envision future possibilities.
✍️ Climate Writing Club
When: Saturday, October 26 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Upper West Side
Climate Writing Club connects and supports New Yorkers exploring topics within climate & sustainability through writing. We meet uptown on Saturday mornings to write about climate together — from fiction to newsletters to academic papers to journaling and everything in between.