LA Climate Tech Events: Jan 2 - Jan 8
Cheers to forging deeper bonds and meeting up in 2024!
Hi friends,
As we usher in a new year, I want to express my heartfelt wishes to you and the incredible community of dedicated individuals tackling climate change and making sustainable lifestyle, products, services and solutions a reality. Your passion, expertise, and commitment are the driving forces behind our shared vision for a brighter future.
May 2024 be a year of breakthroughs, where our collective efforts create ripples of positive change across the globe!
May this year bring us closer, not only digitally but in the energizing experience of in person meetings!
Here's to forging deeper bonds, sharing impactful insights, and creating lasting change. Happy New Year! ✨
Start the year off right by going to one of these events:
On Wednesday, gather a group of friends and visit the go-to weekly night market 🥕 Vegan Playground LA in the Arts District, uniting lovers of (vegan) food and music!
On Saturday, participate in a 🏖 Santa Monica State Beach Cleanup.
Next Monday, head to Arlington Garden and attend a gathering of mycophiles with 🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse, a fungi-focused community education group.
Are you a planner? Scroll down for a list of events throughout this month and in February (including the 🎹 The Music Sustainability Summit, the ⚡ Net Zero Accelerator Annual Demo Day and the 🔋 Energy Innovation Conference at UCLA!).
Cheers,
Maëlys & The Climate Tech Cities Team
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Events This Week
🥕 Vegan Playground LA: Wed, Jan 3
🪴 California Native Garden Design (Part 1/3): Fri, Jan 5
✨ Beach Cleanup: Sat, Jan 6
🪽 Nature Walk: Heron Hike: Sat, Jan 6
🍄 Finding Our Way Home with Fungi: Sun, Jan 7
🌵 SEEDY Sundays: Sun, Jan 7
🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse: How Can Our Imagination Shape New Worlds?: Mon, Jan 8
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings.
Upcoming Events in January
🚰 Revolutionizing Cooling Tower Water Management: Tue, Jan 9
🌱 Behind the Scenes at Theodore Payne Foundation: Wed, Jan 10
🔌 Fortress Power and Greentech Renewables Avalon Road Show OC: Wed, Jan 10
🌟 Electrify Your Home or Business: Sat, Jan 13
🌳 Park Work Day: Sat, Jan 13
⛰️ TreePeople Hilltop Tour: Sat, Jan 13
🏖️ Project Save Our Surf Beach Clean Up: Sat, Jan 13
👨🌾 Gardening Weekend Workshop: Sat, Jan 13
🌅 Religion & Environmental Justice: La tierra environmentalism: Sat, Jan 13
🍹 The Carbonauts' Sustainability Cocktails: Thu, Jan 18
☀️ Pacoima Solar Clinic: Sat, Jan 20
🌊 Nothin’ But Sand Beach Cleanup: Sat, Jan 20
🦀 Marine Protected Area (MPA) Hike: Sat, Jan 20
🔬 Educator Lunch and Learn: Synthetic Sand Collection: Sat, Jan 20
🗣️ Climate Techies Los Angeles Cleantech & Sustainability Networking Meetup: Thu, Jan 25
🌄 Sunset Queer Ecology Walk: Sat, Jan 27
🐠 Santa Monica Aquarium Comedy Club: Sat, Jan 27
🧬 Malibu eDNA Community Science Event: Sat, Jan 27
Upcoming Events in February
🎹 The Music Sustainability Summit: Mon, Feb 5
🌀 Create Epic Beach Art: Fri, Feb 9
🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse: What Fungi Teach About Multispecies Collaboration: Mon, Feb 12
⚡ Net Zero Accelerator (NZA) Annual Demo Day: Thu, Feb 15
🔋 Energy Innovation Conference at UCLA: Fri, Feb 16
🏄♀️ Open House: Sustainable Surf: Sat, Feb 24
💧 Tour of Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility: Sat, Feb 24
Event Details
🥕 Vegan Playground LA
When: Wed, Jan 3rd from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join the Vegan Playground LA Arts District for a vibrant celebration of music, community, and mouthwatering plant-based street food! 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, with 20+ rotating vegan vendors each week in celebrating all things vegan!
🪴 Three-part Series California Native Garden Design
When: Fri, Jan 5th from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Where: Online + In-person
This comprehensive, online three-session course for gardeners offers a sound foundation in design styles and process, the importance of sustainability and how to model a garden after patterns in nature. Students will devise a base/plot plan, implementing knowledge of hardscape materials, irrigation, soils and more. Prior to the class, students will complete a preliminary questionnaire and warm-up exercise for their site. In addition, students are asked to prepare photos and base-maps of their site for the first day of class. The first two sessions meet online, and the third meets in-person at Theodore Payne Foundation.
✨ Beach Cleanup
When: Sat, Jan 6th from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Where: Santa Monica State Beach Santa Monica, CA 90401
This event is hosted by the Persaud Foundation. We will be meeting in the front section of Big Deans Ocean Cafe. We will provide scoopers, gloves, & trash bags. The organizer will be wearing a bright orange turtleneck, which will be very easily recognizable. Participants are encouraged to bring close toed shoes, a sunhat, & a water bottle.
🪽 Nature Walk: Heron Hike
When: Sat, Jan 6th 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. There will likely be water in Marketplace Marsh, and lots of interesting plants and animals to learn about along the way. We will likely come across Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets, and other water-loving wildlife.
🍄 Finding Our Way Home with Fungi
When: Sun, Jan 7th from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Where: Altadena Trailhead (exact info will be emailed)
How can the teachings of fungi help us heal our broken relationship with the land? How can they teach us that we are not alone? Fungi are everywhere, and as our neighbors, fungi can offer us hope and insight on how life works. Without fungi, we wouldn’t have the plants that sustain us today, and we wouldn’t have the food and medicines we use everyday. Through the view of ecology, the scientific study of the interconnected relationships of living things, perhaps we can learn how to work with fungi and how to live responsibly on a damaged planet. Join this mushroom walk and talk to learn with fungi and their ways of building relationships in ecosystems with plants and animals.
🌵 SEEDY Sundays
When: Sun, Jan 7th from 3:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: Artemisia Nursery, 5068 Valley Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90032
SEEDY Sundays is a FREE weekly class in El Sereno focused on helping local folks grow native plants from seed, cuttings etc. Over various weeks and months, folks can expect to work with White Sage, Monkeyflowers, Hummingbird Sage and many more fun and local native plants. Techniques and topics covered will vary by week, and may include: identifying, cleaning, sowing and germinating native seed, preparing and rooting cuttings of native plants, caring for native plant seedlings, rooted cuttings, and more.
🌎 Exploring the Mycoverse: How Can Our Imagination Shape New Worlds?
When: Mon, Jan 8th from 7:00 APM to 9:00 PM
Where: Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 Arlington Dr, Pasadena, CA 91105
For those who are unfamiliar, Exploring the Mycoverse is a fungi-focused community education group founded by Aaron Tupac. The Mycoverse meets regularly to discuss the many ways fungi can remind us of our interconnectedness. Cultivating an intentional community that practices exercising hope, curiosity, and joy together with our more-than-human world.