LA Climate Tech: Aug 28 - Sep 4
LA Climate Tech: Aug 28 - Sep 4
Climate Summer Social tomorrow! Plus, check out a new ArtLab series and enjoy a bold climate change-themed musical - and more
Hi friends,
From happy hour to themed-conferences and workshops to terrific musical with a terrible title, this week’s events offer something exciting for everyone: which gathering(s) will you attend?! Here is our pick this week:
On Tuesday, meet old and new friends at the Summer Social hosted by Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy (WISE)! 👩💼
Participate this Saturday in an ArtLab workshop: Weeds, Seeds, and Fungi: Interspecies Art and Action in a Time of Toxic Algae 🪸 with Artist-Teacher Ashton S. Phillips.
Also on Saturday, join - in person or online - a class to plan your garden transformation and get ready for fall native planting season: Getting Started, Lawn Removal. 🌾
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
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Cheers,
Maëlys and Alec
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Community Shoutouts
👩🏾🦱👱🏼♀️👩🏽🦳 WISE-LA
Established in 2017, WISE-LA is a welcoming group of women brought together by a passion for sustainable investing (including public and private asset managers, wealth managers, investment consultants, investors, analysts, data providers, NGOs, and more) and desire to make genuine connections with others in the industry to learn from and support as individuals and community. Join WISE-LA for a casual happy hour about all things sustainability, ESG, climate, equity, and social impact at Los Angeles Ale Works (Culver City/Ivy Station) on Tuesday, August 29th! Bring a friend to help grow the community. Investors, founders, finance and impact professionals are all welcome to join.
Events This Week
👩💼 Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy - LA Summer Social: Tue, Aug 29
🔥 Wildfire-Ready Workshop: Tue, Aug 29
🌆 Long Beach Virtual Mixer: Tue, Aug 29
🏖️ Coastal Cleanup Day Site Captain Training: Tue, Aug 29
🎶 Musicals in the Metaverse featuring Urinetown: Wed, Aug 30
🥗 Vegan Playground LA Arts District: Wed, Aug 30
🌳 Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Restoration: Thu, Aug 31
🪴 Native Plant Propagation Thursdays: Thu, Aug 31
👨🌾 Summer Movie Night at the Microfarm: Thu, Aug 31
🍄 Exploring the Mycoverse 2nd Year Anniversary Potluck w/ Danielle Stevenson: Fri, Sep 1
🪸 ArtLab - Art & Marine Science Workshop: Sat, Sep 2
🌿 Bixby Marsh Open House: Sat, Sep 2
🌾 Getting Started, Lawn Removal, and More: Sat, Sep 2
🦅 Los Cerritos Wetlands Nature Walk : Raptor Ramble: Sat, Sep 2
🏎️ The Black EV Project - First Sundays Meetup: Sun, Sep 3
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
🎬 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
🏢 ASHRAE SoCal Sept 12th: A Practical Journey towards Zero Net Carbon: Tue, Sep 12
⛳ USGBC-LA Annual Mini-Golf Tourney and House Party: Wed, Sep 13
📣 Green PR: Thu, Sep 14
🌴 Climate Reality OC Backyard Social and Chapter Meeting!: Thu, Sep 14
🎨 Visions2030: Earth Edition, A Festival of Eco-Consciousness: Fri, Sep 15
🏞️ 2nd Annual Sustainable Landscape Open House: Sat, Sep 16
🟢 Socio-Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: Tue, Sep 19
🌊 Causality with Sea Hares and Eelgrass: Tue, Sep 19
🥬 Keep it Local! Benefits of the IE Sustainable Food System: Wed, Sep 20
💧 City of Santa Monica Sustainable Water Supply Program: Thu, Sep 21
🌿 Emerging Professionals: Speed Mentoring and Mixer: Thu, Sep 21
♻️ 2023 California Land Recycling Conference: People, Partnerships, Progress: Tue, Sep 26
Event Details
👩💼 Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy - LA Summer Social
When: Tue, Aug 29th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Los Angeles Ale Works, 8809 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA
Join us for a casual happy hour at Los Angeles Ale Works (Culver City/Ivy Station).Bring a friend to help grow our community. We'll be talking all things sustainability, ESG, climate, equity, and social impact. Investors, founders, finance and impact professionals are all welcome to join.
🔥 Wildfire-Ready Workshop
When: Tue, Aug 29th from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Poinsettia Pavilion, 3451 Foothill Road, Ventura, CA
Learn the steps to take to lower your wildfire risk! This interactive workshop will help you create an action plan to protect your home. The Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council has partnered with the Ventura Land Trust to offer this free workshop. This event is open to the public and is suitable for all ages.
🌆 Long Beach Virtual Mixer
When: Tue, Aug 29th from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Online
Join a virtual mixer with USGBC-LA. Bring your favorite beverage and background, and let’s talk about Long Beach! We’ll start with introductions and some discussion topics, talk about upcoming events and goings-on in Long Beach, and then move to breakout rooms if it gets too lively.
🏖️ Coastal Cleanup Day Site Captain Training
When: Tue, Aug 29th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Online
Coastal Cleanup Day is the biggest environmental day of action of the year, inspiring millions of volunteers all over the world to make an impact. Here in Los Angeles County, Heal the Bay coordinates Coastal Cleanup Day efforts across more than 50 coastal, inland, dive, and kayak cleanup sites. This year, on September 23, 2023, Heal the Bay will celebrate its 34th year coordinating this amazing event, and we are expecting 7,000 volunteers to participate in LA County alone! Become a Coastal Cleanup Day Site Captain and lead a Heal the Bay Cleanup of your own. Join our next virtual training session!
🎶 Musicals in the Metaverse featuring Urinetown
When: Wed, Aug 30th from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: Argue Plaza, 635 Childs Way Los Angeles, CA 90089
Join us under the stars for a special encore screening of the USC School of Dramatic Arts' production of Urinetown: The Musical. In this terrific musical with a terrible title, a prolonged drought has led the government of a Gotham-like city to partner with a private corporation to regulate water usage by requiring citizens to use only public bathrooms for a steep fee! Professionally shot using the most innovative technology, the Tony Award–winning musical satire astutely and hilariously addresses climate change, corporate America, and capitalism.
🥗 Vegan Playground LA Arts District
When: Wed, Aug 30th from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Get ready to experience a vegan paradise at the LA Arts District with amazing food, goods, beer, and music in the Arts District! Vegan Playground is the go-to weekly night market of the LA Arts District, uniting lovers of food, music, and good times. This event series will take place every Wednesday night. Join us and 20+ rotating vegan vendors each week in celebrating all things vegan!
🌳 Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Restoration
When: Thu, Aug 31st from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Where: Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, Los Angeles, CA 90056
Come join us as part of our Renewing the Bowl project in Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. We will be planting California native species along the north-west hillside. Shrubs, trees and bushes!
🪴 Native Plant Propagation Thursdays
When: Thu, Aug 31st from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Car Park for Sycamore Canyon, Via Goleta Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Join the Santa Monica Mountains Fund for a short, 3 hour focus on native plant volunteer work where you'll learn a little, and help a lot! Meeting at the Rancho Sierra Vista native plant nursery, Propagation Thursdays focus on one or 2 specific plant species every week, and is best suited for folks who are looking to improve their native plant horticultural and growing skills.
👨🌾 Summer Movie Night at the Microfarm
When: Thu, Aug 31st from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Where: The Degnan Microfarm, 3753 Degnan Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90018
Join Crop Swap LA at our new Degnan Microfarm for our first agricultural documentary screening. Showing. Gaining Ground is a documentary about growing food as a vehicle to empower communities and change lives. The film shows the connection between family farmers rejecting big ag and urban activists defying the control of big oil in their community.
🍄 Exploring the Mycoverse 2nd Year Anniversary Potluck w/ Danielle Stevenson
When: Fri, Sep 1st from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: 275 Arlington Dr, Pasadena, CA
Join us in celebrating two years of creating community with fellow myconauts and fungi curious folks! We have a very special guest, local mycologicist Danielle Stevenson, who is leading (quite literally) groundbreaking research in phyto-myco-remediation healing soils of heavy metal polution. She will share her extensive experience and journeys through the many worlds of mycology, from having her own DIY business to being a Radical Mycologist to being to a mycologist in academia.
🪸 ArtLab - Art & Marine Science Workshop
When: Sat, Sep 2nd from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: Angels Gate Cultural Center, Building H, 3601 South Gaffey Street Los Angeles, CA 90731
Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) and the Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) are collaborating on monthly Science & Art Workshops! Every first Saturday of the Month. ArtLab will start with a MMCC talk about how watershed health and ocean health helps our sea life thrive. Artist-Teacher Ashton S. Phillips will then lead participants in his art workshop, Weeds, Seeds, and Fungi: Interspecies Art and Action in a Time of Toxic Algae!
🌿 Bixby Marsh Open House
When: Sat, Sep 2nd from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: 24501 S. Figueroa Ave, Carson, CA
Bixby is back! Did you know that in addition to operating wastewater and solid waste facilities, the Sanitation Districts own and maintain a marshland? Yes, it’s true! The Bixby Marshland, a 17-acre marsh, is located to the northwest of the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant near the intersection of Figueroa Street and Sepulveda Boulevard in the City of Carson. The marsh was restored by the Sanitation Districts and reopened to the public in 2009. Now that the marsh has been rejuvenated, a large variety of plants, birds, fish, and animals call the Bixby Marshland home. Bixby Marshland is now open to the public for tours. Our next public open house will be this coming Saturday.
🌾 Getting Started, Lawn Removal, and More!
When: Sat, Sep 2nd from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: California Botanic Garden, 1500 N College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711 or Online
The long dry summer is the perfect time to start your native plant journey. Get ready for fall native planting season by planning your next steps and getting rid of those grasses and weeds for good. Join Botanist and CalBG Executive Director, Lucinda McDade, as she shares useful ideas, techniques, and tips for getting this fist step of your garden transformation started right. This class is being offered in a hybrid format. Please join us either in-person or through a Zoom webinar!
🦅 Los Cerritos Wetlands Nature Walk : Raptor Ramble
When: Sat, Sep 2nd from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Where: Los Cerritos Wetlands, 6720 Pacific Coast Highway Seal Beach, CA 90740
This guided outdoor walking tour is led by environmental educators from Tidal Influence, a local environmental firm that is actively working to restore the wetlands. Our Raptor Ramble nature walk will begin with a brief orientation to the Los Cerritos Wetlands, followed by a stroll through heritage coastal sage scrub and historic dredge spoils while looking for raptors (birds of prey) and other birds that nest in the area. As we pass the salt flats, we may see tiger beetles and coyote tracks while hiking up to the Heron Pointe Cultural trail.
🏎️ The Black EV Project - First Sundays Meetup
When: Sun, Sep 3rd from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: 425 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA
Do you drive an EV? Are you interested in learning more about EVs?Join us on the first Sunday of each month at South Park in Hermosa Beach. We will have free refreshments for the first 25 attendees.Let's build community around sustainability!