LA Climate Tech Events: May 27 - June 3
LA Climate Tech Events: May 27 - June 3
AltaSea's Grand Opening, The Shitthropocene, Marine Carbon Management, Wetlands - and more!
Hi friends,
This week, we curated a list of 12 excellent events happening in the greater Los Angeles! Here are our picks:
On Wednesday, discover the new Center for Innovation at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles for the 🌊 Grand Opening of Berth 58.
We’re anticipating laughters at the screening of Patagonia’s recent film 📽️ The Shitthropocene on Thursday evening.
On Friday, AltaSea is hosting a conversation on 🌊 Marine Carbon Management.
This Saturday, 🖼️ explore DeForest Park to learn more about the importance of California’s wetlands.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys & The Climate Tech Cities Team
This Week’s Events
🌊 AltaSea’s Grand Opening of Berth 58: Wed, May 29
🏄🏼 SurfRiderLA May Chapter Meeting: Wed, May 29
📽️ Patagonia Presents: The Shitthropocene: Thu, May 30
🚰 Comprehensive Irrigation for California Native Plants: Thu, May 30
💧 FloodRISE LA Workshop: Thu, May 30
🌊 Oceans of Potential: A look at Marine Carbon Management Today: Fri, May 31
🗳️ EnviroVoters Badass in Green Awards 2024: Fri, May 31
🖼️ Explore DeForest Wetlands: Sat, June 1
🥾 Peytonia Ecological Reserve Hike: Sat, June 1
♻️ Climate Designers LA x LA Sanitation & Environment Open House Tour: Sat, June 1
🎨 Downtown Glendale Urban Art Walk - Climate Action and Adaptation Plan: Sun, June 2
☕ Climate Cafe: Sun, June 2
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings.
🌎 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!
💰 Show Me The Money: National Survey on Non-Dilutive Financing for Climate Tech Startups
Navigating all of the different capital options to build your startup is incredibly hard and often frustrating. The Streetlife Ventures team is building a shared resource and set of education sessions for founders on non-dilutive capital options like grants and debt to further support this community. Are you a climate founder that has raised grants or debt (or even just been confused but wanted to utilize them)? Please fill out this survey and contribute to what will be the most transparent and useful source of information on non-dilutive funding for early-stage climate companies. We’ll acknowledge all contributors, and also feature founders on panels and case studies for their leadership in this area. Thanks for your time!
Opportunities
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
⚡ LACI Innovators Program (Due June 5)
🚀 LACI Incubation Program (Due June 20)
Would you like to feature a grant opportunity, fellowship application, incubation program in LA Climate Tech Cities? Reach out to me with the info.
Upcoming Events
🪴 EcoXpo: Inspiring Sustainable Living for a Greener Future: Wed, June 5
⚡ Leaders In Energy Summit - Inland Empire Energy Outlook 2024: Wed, June 5
📚 Book discussion: Tom Steyer with Jane Fonda: Wed, June 5
🌊 World Ocean Day (WOD): Sat, June 8
🏖️ WOD Beach Cleanup - Junipero Beach: Sat, June 8
🐚 WOC Beach Cleanup - Santa Monica Beach: Sat, June 8
⛱️ WOD Beach Cleanup - Venice Beach: Sat, June 8
🦈 WOD Beach Cleanup - Topanga Beach: Sat, June 8
🌾 Urban Homestead Learning Tour: Sun, June 9
🌬️ Discussion: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind & Remediation: Mon, June 10
🍹 Farm-Fresh Picnic & Spritz Aperitivo Hour with The Ecology Center: Tue, June 12
🌼 Behind the Scenes at Theodore Payne Foundation: Thu, Jun 13
🏳️🌈 Queer Ecology Walk: Thu, Jun 13
🎠 3rd Annual Cool Irvine Eco Fair: Sat, June 15
🫘 Vegpreneur Fireside Chat: Sat, June 15
♨️ Thought Leadership Series: Extreme Heat: Thu, June 20
🎬 Hollywood Climate Summit: June 25-28
🏢 Long Beach's Approach to Decarbonization: Wed, June 26
📖 Algalita Monthly Book Club: Exploring Our Place in Nature: Wed, June 26
🪸 Open House: Kelp Seaforestation to Harness Solutions for Climate Change: Sat, June 29
This Week in Depth
🌊 AltaSea’s Grand Opening of Berth 58
When: Wed, May 29th from 3:30 PM
Where: AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, 2451 Signal St, San Pedro, CA 90731
AltaSea’s Grand Opening of Berth 58 Center for Innovation! Join us for this exclusive peek behind the blue curtain followed by an evening celebration at Travis Dockside Station just across the street. To RSVP, please contact Robin Aube at raube@altasea.org.
🏄🏼 SFLA May Chapter Meeting
When: Wed, May 29th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Rivian Venice, Los Angeles, CA 90291 (sign up to see exact location)
Catch up on the latest chapter news and enjoy an in-depth look at coastal erosion, our changing coasts, and nature-based solutions from our guest presenter. We'll kick off the night with chapter happenings and how you can get involved. Alex Ferron, Surfrider's Living Shorelines Coordinator, will take us through the challenges our eroding coast faces and how nature can be harnessed to protect what we love.
📽️ Patagonia Presents: The Shitthropocene
When: Wed, May 29th from 6:30 PM
Where: Rivian, 169 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91105
The Shitthropocene is a mock anthropological view of humanity’s consumption habits, turning a satirical (yet brutally honest) eye on how everything is turning to shit and why the impulse toward more might destroy us all. Join us for food, drinks, laughs, and a giveaway.
🚰 Comprehensive Irrigation for California Native Plants
When: Thu, May 30th from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford Street Los Angeles, CA 91352
Join us in-person for this special irrigation class and understand how to water your native plant garden across the seasons! In this three-hour course, students will learn how, when, and why to irrigate California native plants in the landscape using various types of systems and techniques. Classroom instruction is followed by a field walk and review of Theodore Payne Foundation irrigation systems and management. Students will leave with a comprehensive resource guide.
💧 FloodRISE LA Workshop
When: Thu, May 30th from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Online
LARC invites you to the second Assessment of Flood Adaptation Options in Los Angeles County Workshop. At this meeting, researchers from UC Irvine and University of Miami will share a set of proposed flood adaptation scenarios and participants will be asked to engage in a discussion on the possible refinements of scenarios. The goal of this workshop series is to facilitate the co-creation of three county-wide flood risk adaptation strategies: (a) raising levees, (b) widening channels, and (c) capturing stormwater. At the first event, participants provided feedback on these three adaptation strategies – you can view the slides and notes from that meeting.
🌊 Oceans of Potential: A look at Marine Carbon Management Today
When: Fri, May 31st from 11:30 AM to 12:30 AM
Where: Online
Today, there exists a global consensus among scientists, policymakers, and environmentalists that carbon dioxide removal is indispensable in combating climate change. The oceans are the largest pool of mobile carbon dioxide on the planet and represent an enormous opportunity to mitigate the effects of humans on the climate. Multiple forms of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) methods are under exploration and/or development currently, each with different mechanisms, opportunities, impacts and risks. Join us for a timely conversation between researchers, practitioners and experts in the mCDR space and ocean carbon management space, where we will discuss the extraordinary potential of, and near-term roadmap for, ocean carbon management in California.
🗳️ EnviroVoters Badass in Green Awards 2024
When: Fri, May 31st from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: SmogShoppe, 2651 South La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90034
Join EnviroVoters at LA's coolest climate night of the year! Alongside fellow climate champions, innovators, creatives, and anyone who cares about solving the climate crisis. The Badass in Green Awards recognizes the achievements of innovators and leaders in the fight for climate justice and against climate change! We'll party and celebrate this year's Badass in Green Honorees: Microsoft and Project Super Bloom PAC!
🖼️ Explore DeForest Wetlands
When: Sat, June 1st from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Where: 6255 De Forest Ave, Long Beach, CA 90805
Join FoLAR for a day of learning and fun with Long Beach Utilities! They are teaming up with local nonprofits and community-based organizations to host a free, educational event at DeForest Park. Learn more about the importance of California’s wetlands and enjoy activities like: guided plant and wildlife tours, terracotta pot painting, guided poetry and art in nature, wetlands exploration, educational talks about our wetlands & watershed conservation, free native milkweed giveaway.
🥾 Peytonia Ecological Reserve Hike
When: Sat, June 1st from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: Suisun Wildlife Center, 1171 Kellogg St, Suisun City
An interpretive walk through the Peytonia Ecological Reserve examining this unusual brackish water ecosystem and investigating its history, native plants and animals, and their ecological relationships.
♻️ Climate Designers LA x LA Sanitation & Environment Open House Tour
When: Sat, June 1st from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: LASAN North Central District Yard, 452 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90031, United States
Join Climate Designers Los Angeles during our quarterly Global Chapters Week! This casual meetup will connect you to like-minded creatives wherever they are on their climate journey. LA Sanitation & Environment holds six free Open House events each year, opening our district yards to the public. The Open House program showcases LASAN's residential curbside collection programs with an emphasis on proper recycling practices and bulky item collection while strengthening partnerships with City residents. Each Open House will feature trash trucks and equipment demonstrations in addition to facility tours, information booths, recycling games, and a free lunch. All children receive a special hat at registration and have the opportunity to operate the controls on the trucks. Parents go home with vegetable plants. Our 360 degree video booth is free for all to enjoy!
🎨 Downtown Glendale Urban Art Walk - Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
When: Sun, June 2nd from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Where: Glendale City Hall, 613 East Broadway Glendale, CA 91206
Join us for a walk through Downtown Glendale highlighting the climate connections between walking, biking, public transit, and land use. Following the walk we'll stop by a local shop for ice cream.
☕ Climate Cafe
When: Sun, June 2nd from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Kantara: Moroccan rugs, 5028 Eagle Rock Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90041
Join us for a Climate Cafe, a 90-minute lightly facilitated space for people to share how they feel about climate change. Climate Cafes exist so that we can process our emotions in community, rather in isolation. They're a casual space for people to share their thoughts and feelings around climate change and connected social issues.