LA Climate Tech Events: Feb 5 - 12
Cocktails, Sustainable Goods Movements, Conservation & Inclusivity, Epic Beach Art - and more!
Hi friends,
Here are our picks for this week:
It’s back tomorrow! Brave the rain again to meet friends at the 🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Cocktail.
Join First Wednesdays in Long Beach to learn from sustainability expert Bonnie Nixon how the transformation in the global goods movement industry is affecting everything including businesses, homes, and shopping at the conference 🌊 Making Sustainable Goods Movement a Reality in Long Beach and Beyond.
Connect with the elements and Create Epic Beach Art 🌀 on Friday!
Additionally, recognizing identity and intersectionality is key to accelerate change and it’s encouraging to see more events convening the local community on related topics: this week, check out this lecture at UCLA on🚰 the operationalization of equity in the drinking water sector and this mixer and conference 🐛 WISDOM: making conservation more inclusive hosted by the Mojave Desert Land Trust. Have a great week!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys & The Climate Tech Cities Team
🌎 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
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
📈 LACI's Founders Business Accelerator (Due Feb. 13)
🌎 LA2050 Grants Challenge (Due Feb. 28)
🚀 Rocket Fund, CalTech (Due March 1)
Events This Week
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Cocktail: Tue, Feb 6
⚡ Electrification's Role in Building Decarbonization: Tue, Feb 6
🚰 Operationalization of Equity in the Drinking Water Sector: Wed, Feb 7
🍷 26th Westside Renewables Cocktail Hour: Wed, Feb 7
🌊 First Wednesdays: Making Sustainable Goods Movement a Reality in Long Beach and Beyond: Wed, Feb 7
☘️ Green Initiatives Mixer: Wed, Feb 7
📈 Intrapreneurship: Unlocking Your Company’s Social Impact Potential: Wed, Feb 7
🌀 Create Epic Beach Art: Fri, Feb 9
🏠 Net Zero Energy Townhome Tour: Sat, Feb 10
🐛 Wisdom: Making Conservation More Inclusive: Sat, Feb 10
🌳 TreePeople Public Hilltop Tour: Sat, Feb 10
🍀 Urban Homestead Learning Tour: Sun, Feb 11
🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse: What Fungi Teach About Multispecies Collaboration: Mon, Feb 12
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings.
Upcoming Events
⚡ Net Zero Accelerator (NZA) Annual Demo Day: Thu, Feb 15
🔋 Energy Innovation Conference at UCLA: Fri, Feb 16
🐦 Family Bird Festival 2024: Sun, Feb 18
🍻 Cleantech Open Kick-Off Event: Tue, Feb 20
🏢 USGBC-LA Member Mixer: Wed, Feb 21
🙌 2024 YES Summit: Tue, Feb 22
🌾 Sowing the Seeds of Change: A Lecture on Native Plants and Sustainability: Tue, Feb 22
🍃 Understanding Oaks: a Tree Walk and Talk: Fri, Feb 23
🏞 Habitat Restoration Day: Sat, Feb 24
🏄♀️ Open House: Sustainable Surf: Sat, Feb 24
💧 Tour of Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility: Sat, Feb 24
Event Details
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Cocktail
When: Tue, Feb 6th from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Where: The Butcher's Daughter, 8755 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Join us for delicious cocktails (including a complimentary one), a bite to eat, and conversations with other passionate sustainability advocates. This is a great opportunity to meet others in the sustainability community, so feel free to share this invite with friends and colleagues. The more the merrier!
⚡ Electrification's Role in Building Decarbonization
When: Tue, Feb 6th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Quiet Cannon Conference & Event Center, 901 Via San Clemente Montebello, CA 90640
Building electrification is often viewed as an essential strategy for building decarbonization, but electrification, in and of itself, does not necessarily guarantee decarbonization. Building electrification refers to transitioning all or portions of building systems to electricity instead of on-site fossil fuel-based, non-electric energy. While designing new construction buildings to have all-electric systems is becoming mainstream, converting existing buildings and their systems to all-electric designs presents unique challenges to owners, engineers, and architects. The challenges can change based on the building type, age, the existing system types, and the overall condition and efficiency of the building’s enclosure. This interactive presentation will share challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned on decarbonization retrofits. Mr. Peterson will also provide an update on ASHRAE’s future direction towards helping to reduce GHG emissions in the building sector. Attendees of this session will gain insight into industry trends and their implications for buildings, the greening of the grid, regulations, and what is practical over the next 15 years.
🚰 Operationalization of Equity in the Drinking Water Sector
When: Wed, Feb 7th from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM
Where: UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Drive East Room 4357 Los Angeles, CA 90095
Khalid Osman is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He received his PhD from University of Texas in 2022. His talk will focus on recent work on water system consolidation, but also broader equity metrics analysis in the U.S. He and his lab are currently focused on the operationalization of equity in water sector infrastructure, conceptualizing equity in decentralized water and sanitation systems, water affordability, and stakeholder-community engagement in sustainable civil infrastructure systems for achieving environmental justice.
🍷 26th Westside Renewables Cocktail Hour
When: Wed, Feb 7th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Everson Royce Bar, 1936 E 7th St Los Angeles, CA 90021
Welcome to the 26th Westside Renewables Cocktail hour sponsored by N S Structural Engineering (NSSE). This is a relaxed get together for renewable energy professionals. NSSE will be sponsoring the first rounds of drink and some food.
🌊 First Wednesdays: Making Sustainable Goods Movement a Reality in Long Beach and Beyond
When: Wed, Feb 7th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Honda Pacific Visions Theater, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
Are the products we’re buying today having a better or worse impact on the environment? How do we inspire change for future generations? Join us for a special presentation from a globally recognized sustainability expert, Bonnie Nixon. Hear the latest insights into the massive environmental change that is occurring right in our backyard, and how a transformation in the global goods movement industry is affecting everything including our businesses, homes, and shopping. Learn about the promising green technologies that are here and what is coming. Gain insights and new perspectives how social empowerment – people asking for change – is rearranging priorities within companies and impacting our retail and shopping decisions. What actions can we take to help conserve our resources today for future generations and a more sustainable tomorrow? Following the presentation, there will be cocktails, conversations, crafts and music in our Art Gallery, and access to our Babies Gallery. Cash bar.
☘️ Green Initiatives Mixer
When: Web, Feb 7th from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Where: RootDown LA Garden Site - George Washington Carver Middle School, 4410 McKinley Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90011
Join us for an exciting in-person event at the RootDown LA Garden Site - George Washington Carver Middle School. This mixer is all about celebrating and promoting green initiatives in our community. Come and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations who are passionate about creating a sustainable future for South LA & beyond.
📈 Intrapreneurship: Unlocking Your Company’s Social Impact Potential
When: Wed, Feb 7th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Where: JKP 104, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 611 W Exposition Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90089
Join us for an exciting event where we delve into the world of intrapreneurship and its potential to drive social impact within your company. Discover how to foster innovation, empower employees, and create positive change from corporate social responsibility & corporate social philanthropy experts and leaders.
🌀 Create Epic Beach Art
When: Fri, Feb 9th from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Where: Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway Santa Monica, CA 90402
Breathe in the peace of creating with nature as the sound of ocean waves transport you. Reconnect to your inner child’s sense of wonder and possibility as you ‘play’ in the sand. In this 3+ hr gathering we will connect to ourselves, to the beach and to our fellow creators as we engage various activities learning about the tools and techniques of massive art-making, culminating in an original artwork guided by the group process. We end with aerial photos for lasting memories.
🏠 Net Zero Energy Townhome Tour
When: Sat, Feb 10th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: 4116 Higuera Street Culver City, CA 90232
Come join USGBC-LA's Green Homes Committee for a tour of an Award-Winning Green Home! Nestled in Culver City, CA, this home won the 2022 AIA-LA Climate Positive Residential Design Award. The "Jigsaw Small Lot Net Zero Townhomes" (Culver City, CA) were designed by Kendall Architecture Planning + Design. This all-electric townhome includes the latest energy-efficient heat pump HVAC+HW, and induction cooktop. On top of that, features also include: water-efficient fixtures, drip irrigation edible landscaping, and usable open space to help you enjoy nature!
🐛 Wisdom: Making Conservation More Inclusive
When: Sat, Feb 10th from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Alumni and Visitors Center, 3701 Canyon Crest Drive Riverside, CA 92521
Join a special mixer and conference celebrating diversity and the need for inclusion in the conservation sciences of the desert. Learn how the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s pioneering WISDOM internship is helping make desert science more inclusive and accessible. Discuss ways in which we can address inequalities in desert conservation field work. This event takes place on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the WISDOM program. This event is open to the public, but spaces are limited. RSVP to reserve your spot. Light refreshments will be served.
🌳 TreePeople Public Hilltop Tour
When: Sat, Feb 10th from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: Coldwater Canyon Park
Learn how TreePeople unites the power of trees, people, and nature-based solutions to grow a sustainable, more climate-resilient future. The Hilltop Tour is an informative and interactive outdoor experience, led by our wonderful Eco-Educators. During this 1.5-hour tour, we’ll cover TreePeople’s history, renewable energy sources, water conservation techniques, recycled building materials, native plants, and more. Picnic tables are available if you’d like to bring lunch and enjoy a picnic after the tour.
🍀 Urban Homestead Learning Tour
When: Sun, Feb 11th from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Where: 631 Cypress Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Learn how this family transformed their ordinary home into an extraordinary model of urban farming & sustainability.
🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse: What Fungi Teach About Multispecies Collaboration
When: Mon, Feb 11th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 Arlington DR Pasadena, CA 91105
Join us for our finale discussion of Let's Become Fungal! to "find your fungal alter ego" (as said in the preface of the final chapter). The book takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency—all in line with the behavior of the mycelium.