LA Climate Tech: Aug 21 - Aug 28
Explore the time value of carbon, trash talk, mycology get together, climate happy hour and more!
Hi friends,
There is no better time to come together to talk about the most pressing issues of our times than in the wake of a hurriquake! Following an eventful weekend, this is an exciting week in Los Angeles with a diversity of meetups, from an in-person happy hour to online webinars to conservation-themed musical program, here is our pick:
On Thursday, tune in a webinar on the time value of carbon 🏢 hosted by Carbon Leadership Forum Los Angeles and learn about the intricate relationship between building materials and their carbon timelines.
Also on Thursday, head to Union Station LA for a climate & housing happy hour 🍻 with Urban Environmentalists & friends to connect with pro-housing, transit, racial justice, environmental, and urbanism activists from across LA.
🎥 Watch life-changing, Emmy-winning film The Story of Plastic, at LA Film Boutique, on Saturday.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys and Alec
Community Shoutout
Carbon Leadership Forum Los Angeles
CLF Los Angeles is a local hub of the Carbon Leadership Forum. The organization hosts local events that empower industry professionals to radically reduce embodied carbon from buildings and infrastructure, which has proven to be no small feat in a city like Los Angeles. Join a diverse mix of professionals, including architects, engineers, contractors, sustainability consultants, material suppliers, building owners, and policymakers at their next event: a webinar on the Time Value of Carbon!
🌎 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!
Events This Week
🌏 Fireside Chat with Ridwell CEO, Ryan Metzger!: Tue, Aug 22
📖 Book Discussion: Wastelands – The True Story of Farm Country on Trial: Tue, Aug 22
🌎 GHG Protocol: Findings from Corporate Surveys: Wed, Aug 23
💧From the Ground Up - Soil and Water Resiliency for Future Generations: Wed, Aug 23
🏢 Time Value of Carbon: Thu, Aug 24
♻️ Trash Talk w/ Ridwell CEO, Ryan Metzger & dClutterfly CEO, Tracy McCubbin!: Thu, Aug 24
🍻 Union Station LA Happy Hour: Thu, Aug 24
🍄 Exploring the Mycoverse: In Search of Mycotopia (Part II ): Thu, Aug 24
🎥 Recycle2Riches : The Story of Plastic: Sat, Aug 26
🎵 The Watershed: Music, science, and storytelling w/ Shelley Segal: Sat, Aug 26
🌊 The Transformative Power of the Ocean and its Waves: panel & exhibition: Sat, Aug 26
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
👩💼 Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy - LA Summer Social: Tue, Aug 29
🍄 Exploring the Mycoverse 2nd Year Anniversary Potluck: Fri, Sep 1
🏎️ The Black EV Project - First Sundays Meetup: Sun, Sep 3
🎬 The Engine Inside Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Wed, Sep 6
🌎 Women In Green Breakfast Presents The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): Thu, Sep 7
🙋♀️ Women In Green Breakfast: Our Impact with the Inflation Reduction Act: Thu, Sep 7
👩🔬 Orange County Women in Green: Tue, Sep 12
🌴 Climate Reality OC Backyard Social and Chapter Meeting!: Thu, Sep 14
🎨 Visions2030: Earth Edition, A Festival of Eco-Consciousness: Fri, Sep 15
🟢 Socio-Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: Tue, Sep 19
🌊 Causality with Sea Hares and Eelgrass: Tue, Sep 19
🌿 Emerging Professionals: Speed Mentoring and Mixer: Thu, Sep 21
♻️ 2023 California Land Recycling Conference: People, Partnerships, Progress: Tue, Sep 26
💧 Future Water World Congress: Wed, Sep 27
Event Details
📖 Book Discussion: Wastelands – The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
When: Tue, Aug 22nd from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Law Library, 301 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA
Join the LA Law Library book discussion group via Zoom as we continue our year-long exploration of environmental justice and climate related issues as we discuss Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, by Corban Addison. Farm waste mismanagement is the subject of this nonfiction environmental thriller. The book reports on a series of court cases filed against Smithfield Foods by neighbors of its industrial hog operations. In the process of relating the legal battles, Addison reveals the many examples of environmental pollution and racial inequality embedded in our industrialized food system. About the Author: BS Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly JD University of Virginia School of Law Author of 4 novels: A Walk Across the Sun (2012), The Garden of Burning Sand (2014), The Tears of Dark Water (2016 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award), A Harvest of Thorns (2017) Attorney, activist and world traveler, Addison is a supporter of humanitarian and social justice causes around the world.
🌎 GHG Protocol: Findings from Corporate Surveys
When: Wed, Aug 23 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Online
In this webinar, the GHG Protocol secretariat will review key themes that emerged in the recently concluded Corporate Standard and Scope 3 Standard surveys. Participants will have a chance to submit questions for the speakers in advance as well as during the live session. This session will be recorded for those who are unable to join the live session.
💧 From the Ground Up - Soil and Water Resiliency for Future Generations
When: Wed, Aug 23rd from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Where: Metropolitan Water District Board Room, 700 Alameda Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
You are invited to join us for a free in-person forum on the connections between soil health, climate adaption, water resiliency, and well-being. Guest speakers at From the Ground Up will share new ideas and emerging policy, planning, and design practices with a special emphasis on connections between soil health and water cycles. Our keynote speaker, Jane Davidson, will showcase how one small country is inspiring the world by enacting policies and taking action to ensure the wellbeing of future generations. This event will bring together professionals in engineering, architecture, landscape design and management, water resources, public works, community services, parks and public health, along with emerging professionals, students, and others.
🏢 Time Value of Carbon
When: Thu, Aug 24th from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Where: Online via Zoom
Join the Carbon Leadership Forum LA Chapter for a captivating exploration into the intricate relationship between building materials and their carbon timelines. The carbon footprint of materials isn't only about the emissions produced during their manufacture, but also the carbon potential they lock in throughout a building's lifespan. How do we weigh the emissions from greenhouse gasses other than carbon dioxide, such as methane? How do we consider carbon stored in timber and other biogenic building products as they are regrown? What happens when we extend our scope beyond the lifetime of a single building? What is dynamic life cycle assessment (DLCA) and how might it support a better understanding of these concepts? Presentations will be led by industry experts Aurimas Bukauskas and Hafsa Burt to be followed by Q&A and group discussion.
♻️ Trash Talk w/ Ridwell CEO, Ryan Metzger & dClutterfly CEO, Tracy McCubbin!
When: Thu, Aug 24th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Mister O's, 11838 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Ridwell's CEO is in town, so we are teaming up with the dClutterfly's Tracy McCubbin to hang out and talk trash at Mister O's in Studio City. Have a glass of wine, a nibble, and join the conversation about Ridwell, recycling, & wasting less in Los Angeles!
🍻 Union Station LA Happy Hour
When: Thu, Aug 24th from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Homebound Brew Haus, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA
Join Eastside Housing for All, Housing Action Coalition and Urban Environmentalists for a climate & housing happy hour!You'll get to connect with pro-housing, transit, racial justice, environmental, and urbanism activists from across LA. We'll meet at Homebound Brew Haus in Union Station, so you can arrive by transit no matter where you're based.August is Membership Month at Urban Environmentalists, so we'll have extra volunteer and swag opportunities. If you are not yet a member of Urban Environmentalists and complete the volunteer activity at the event, you'll qualify for a year of free membership, plus a free t-shirt from our parent network YIMBY Action! You can also opt for paid membership at $35+/year. T-shirts available this month only.See you Thursday!
🍄 Exploring the Mycoverse: In Search of Mycotopia (Part II )
When: Thu, Aug 24th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Arlington Garden, 275 Arlington Dr, Pasadena, CA
Exploring the Mycoverse Presents... In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics & the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (Part II). In part 2 of 2 discussions, we will be discussing the last half of the book in preparation for the following week's discussion with one of the mycologists featured in Mycotopia, Danielle Stevenson. In this last half of the book we learn about the insporation behind creating the "mycelium underground" of myco-scenes across the country as well as how to get involved with fungi, and how to be in better relationship with the more than human world around us (e.g. via conservation, applied mycology, in community with intersectional mycology movements discussed).
🎥 Recycle2Riches : The Story of Plastic
When: Sat, Aug 26th from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: LA FILM BOUTIQUE, 624 North Victory Boulevard, Burbank, CA
Recycle2Riches: The Story of PlasticA feature-length documentary of a searing exposé revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Presenting a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance fighting back, The Story of Plastic is a life-changing, Emmy-winning film depicting one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. Join us for an eye-opening event that will change the way you think about plastic!
🎵 The Watershed: Music, science, and storytelling w/ Shelley Segal
When: Sat, Aug 26th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Heretic House, 724 East Edgeware Road, Los Angeles, CA 90026
"The Watershed" is a conservation-themed musical program developed by singer-songwriter Shelley Segal (An Atheist Album) and science communicator Dan Lombardo that combines music and spoken word to bring the stories of the animals that live in the Puget Sound Watershed to the pacific coastal communities who are supported by them. The program will teach audiences about the different species, their relationships to each other, their triumphs through systems restoration and the threats that they face from issues like pollution and climate change. Get ready to be captivated by the enchanting melodies and thought-provoking lyrics.
🌊 The Transformative Power of the Ocean and its Waves: panel & exhibition
When: Sat, Aug 26th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Heal the Bay Aquarium, 1600 Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica, CA
Visit the Heal the Bay Aquarium for an inspiring evening celebrating the transformative power of the ocean and its waves. Experience art, enjoy our award-winning aquarium exhibit, and engage in meaningful discussions about the collaboration of science and surfing in healing individuals, communities, and nature.