LA Climate Tech: July 17 - July 24
LA Climate Tech: July 17 - July 24
Green building and design, gardening, artist talk, electric motorcycle meetup, vegan cheese, River Fest, and more events this week
Hi friends,
We're so excited to launch the LA Climate Tech newsletter!
Our mission is to strengthen the local climate community in greater LA and to support the many amazing groups working across the spectrum of climate tech and activism, from DAC to dance. With the hottest week on record and higher temperatures coming, now is the time to come together and start building a more resilient future.
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Here are our top picks:
Join the USGBC-LA events of the week: attend the next Green Schools Committee on Tuesday and dial in the Virtual Tour of a Green Home 🏠 in Southeast Los Angeles.
Curious to meet the buzzing community of people who share a common love for electric motorcycles? 🏍️ Join Bike Shed Moto Co.’s Electric Motorcycle Meetup Event on Saturday!
🦋 On Sunday, head to LA State Historic Park for a community celebration of LA River! FoLAR is hosting their second annual River Fest with an awesome program including art, music and film screenings. FoLAR is also organizing a Habitat Restoration morning at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve on Saturday.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys and Alec
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Community Shoutout
🦋 FoLAR’s River Fest 2023
The organization Friends of the LA River gathers a vibrant community of River stewards, provides a variety of ways in which Angelenos can connect to their River like nature walks, writing workshops and yoga sessions, and fosters a community of scientists to revitalize the biodiverse local ecosystem. For the second year, FoLAR is hosting River Fest! River Fest 2023 will feature short environmental film screenings on a large outdoor movie screen, local artists, live music, food trucks, drinks, interactive art and education exhibits, raffles, and more.
Events This Week
✏️ Green Schools Committee: Tue, Jul 18
🔌 Residential Energy Code Training for Plan Examiners and Building Inspectors: Wed, Jul 19
🍀 Green to Gold: How Design can be Sustainable and Profitable: Wed, Jul 19
🍹The Carbonauts' Sustainability Drinks Series: Wed, Jul 19
⚡️ 2022 One Hour Code Breaker: Nonresidential All Electric: Thu, Jul 20
❇️ Glendale's Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Focus Group: Thu, Jul 20
🌲 Habitat Restoration Day: Sat, Jul 22
🌳 Shade Tree Give Away: Sat, Jul 22
🌱 Building a Garden at Theresa Lindsay Senior Center: Sat, Jul 22
🏡 Virtual Tour of Green Home in Southeast Los Angeles: Sat, Jul 22
🧀 Vegan Wine, Cheese & Snacks: Sat, Jul 22
🏍️ EV Moto take over at the BikeShed: Sat, Jul 22
🪴 Weekend Workshops at Arlington Garden: Sun, Jul 23
📷 Artist Talk: Wildlife photographer Johanna Turner: Sun, Jul 23
💧 River Fest 2023: Sun, Jul 23
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
⚡️ LACI's Building Energy Management Fellowship In Person Info Session: Tue, Jul 25
💼 LA Green Jobs - Virtual Career Fair: Tue, Jul 26
🥕 Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit 2023: Thu, Jul 27
🐦 Nature Walk & Talk: El Nino and Climate Impacts on Shorebird Conservation: Thu, Jul 27
🌇 Panel Discussion: Challenges to Building Affordable Housing: Thu, Jul 27
🍻 Climate Collective Happy Hour!: Thu, Jul 27
🔌 Electrification: Fact vs. Fiction: Thu, Jul 27
🖼️ The Creative Economy: Art in Public Spaces a Catalyst for Change: Thu, Jul 27
🌲 What is that happening right off our coast?: Sat, Jul 29
🌍 Uprising Together: Sun, Jul 30
💫 Conversations with the Chair- CA Energy Commission, David Hochschild: Mon, Jul 31
🏙️ Building Decarb Committee: Tue, Aug 01
🙋♀️ Women in Green Committee: Thu, Aug 03
🍄 Hands-On Fungi Workshop - Take Home Your Own Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit!: Thu, Aug 03
👃 Smellscape, Distributed Memory, and Social Justice: Thu, Aug 03
🌎 Geoengineering to Mitigate Climate Chang-Is there a Role for Aerospace?: Sat, Aug 05
Event Details
✏️ Green Schools Committee
When: Tue, Jul 18th from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
Where: Online
The Green Schools Committee engages Southern California schools in a dialogue that encourages the growth of a sustainable school system, which includes the health and well-being of the students and the buildings in which they attend.
🔌 Residential Energy Code Training for Plan Examiners and Building Inspectors
When: Wed, Jul 19th from 07:30 AM to 03:30 PM
Where: 411 West Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA
This highly interactive online live course is designed to provide plans examiners and building inspectors with the knowledge and skills they need to fulfill their roles associated with California’s 2022 Single-family Energy Code. This course focuses on the "top six" categories of high-value energy savings and impact on Energy Code compliance for residential projects and the "essential" Plans Examiner and Building Inspector tasks associated with top Energy Code compliance categories.
🍀 Green to Gold: How Design can be Sustainable and Profitable
When: Wed, Jul 19th from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Where: Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, CA
Sustainable design: how can it benefit the bottom line and mother earth? Welcome experts Kishani Perera of Kishani Perera, Allen Compton of SALT Landscape Design and Michael Kovac of Kovac Design Studio who are forging a harmonious bond between man-made structures and nature for the longevity and sustainability of the homes of tomorrow. Join us for a captivating discussion, led by Genevieve Trousdale as our panelists delve into the realms of sustainable interior, exterior and landscape design, biophilic design, and smart home living, and discover how these practices can be simultaneously eco-conscious and profitable.
🍹 The Carbonauts' Sustainability Drinks Series
When: Wed, Jul 19th from 07:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Where: West Hollywood. Address forthcoming when you RSVP.
125 passionate sustainability peeps at a bar/restaurant with great music. Hosted by Graham Hill at The Carbonauts.
⚡️ 2022 One Hour Code Breaker: Nonresidential All Electric
When: Thu, Jul 20th from 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM
Where: SoCalGas Energy Resource Center, 9240 Firestone Blvd., Downey, CA
The 2022 Energy Code has introduced significant changes for Nonresidential occupancies, from how these occupancies are to be classified and organized within the code to the introduction of new Prescriptive measures facilitating preparation for future Nonresidential all-electric buildings. Join us for this presentation where we review not only the all-electric preparation requirements of the Energy Code, but also PV exemptions. We will also explore preparation for future all-electric buildings in the Energy Code requirements for HVAC systems, domestic hot water and battery storage.
❇️ Glendale's Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Focus Group
When: Thu, Jul 20th from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM
Where: Sycamore Room, Pacific Community Center & Park, 501 South Pacific Avenue, Glendale, CA
The City of Glendale is preparing a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP), which will serve as a roadmap for the city to reduce its carbon footprint and increase its resilience to existing and future climate change impacts. Glendale is committed to achieving its climate goals equitably by creating an equity framework that allows for the people most impacted by pollution and climate change to share their concerns and help craft policy solutions to reduce the community's carbon footprint and increase resilience. Your participation in the CAAP is critical to identifying climate action and adaptation barriers and challenges faced by the people you serve and developing a CAAP that centers around communities most vulnerable to climate change. Please join us for this virtual focus group meeting to provide direction on the CAAP's equity framework and provide feedback on potentially climate vulnerable populations in the Glendale.
🌲 Habitat Restoration Day
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 08:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: 6100 Woodley Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
With the help of the California Native Plant Society, volunteers will remove invasive mustard and learn about its impact on the ecosystem and why its removal is vital to restoring California's native habitat. Afterward, join San Fernando Valley Audubon Society as they lead nature-filled walks around the Nature Reserve, binoculars provided!
🌳 Shade Tree Give Away
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Where: 339 North Fickett Street, Los Angeles, CA
LA Conservation Corps, Climate Resolve, USGBC-LA and Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory are partnering to bring you a shade tree give away! They will distribute 100 shade trees first come first serve from the parking lot across from Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory.
🌱 Building a Garden at Theresa Lindsay Senior Center
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: WLCAC Theresa Lindsay Center, 429 East 42nd Place, Los Angeles, CA
We are helping the senior center rebound after the pandemic. These garden beds were once full of vibrant plants and will be again with our help. Our work will be the start of many projects at the site focused on renovating the center's grounds.We will be divided into teams to tackle various tasks in the garden area. Volunteers will help construct a new garden bed, fill other garden beds with soil and seedlings, or prepare the walkway border for new native plants. We will have a light breakfast at the beginning of the event, and we will serve lunch at the end.
🏡 Virtual Tour of Green Home in Southeast Los Angeles
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Online
Join us on a virtual tour of a Green Home! Brandon is a Sr. Applications Engineer for one of an innovative solar technology company. He was influenced by growing up with a father who was a pioneer of sustainable building professionals. Now that he owns a property of his own up the hills in Southeast of Los Angeles near Temecula, he has undertaken a truly regenerative transformation project of what once looked like a deserted property into a home with net-positive energy sanctuary. Brandon shares the strategic approach he has taken to regenerate his home and the land surrounding his home on almost 5-acre of property including decarbonization, water management, and landscaping following the concept of “sustainable site.” He will show us in this virtual tour of his home.
🧀 Vegan Wine, Cheese & Snacks
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 11:00 AM to 03:00 PM
Where: Vegan Pop Up by XMarket, 2524 Pacific Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90291
Join this Pop Up market to try new vegan beverages, cheeses and snacks and get inspired for your next wine night.
🏍️ EV Moto take over at the BikeShed
When: Sat, Jul 22nd from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Where: Bike Shed Moto Co, 1580 Industrial Street, Los Angeles, CA
Engage in lively conversations, exchange stories, and forge new friendships with people who share your love for electric motorcycles. Whether you're a seasoned electric motorcycle rider or simply curious about this emerging mode of transportation, the Electric Motorcycle Takeover Event for Lunch promises an friendly, interesting experience.
🪴 Weekend Workshops at Arlington Garden
When: Sun, Jul 23rd from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 Arlington Dr, Pasadena, CA
Workshops include volunteer projects, speaker or panel events, and small classes focused on topics related to our mission, regenerative gardening, and the cultural heritage of gardening. Volunteer Projects: Volunteers work on longer-term garden projects while learning regenerative gardening and climate-appropriate landscaping. No prior experience is necessary for volunteer projects, but space is limited, and you are strongly encouraged to sign up for free in advance.
📷 Artist Talk: Wildlife photographer Johanna Turner
When: Sun, Jul 23rd from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Boddy House, Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Hear from renowned wildlife camera-trap photographer, Johanna Turner, about her wildlife photography and thoughts on conservation, and get a peak at her technological set-up! Johanna started trail camera photography in 2009, and has since become a huge advocate for wildlife conservation. Professionally, she has filmed wildlife for Disney+, Apple TV+, National Geographic, and has been published in Discover Magazine, LA Times, and several academic journals and books. She is also on the advisory committee for the Cougar Conservancy, which works to reduce human-wildlife conflicts and help preserve mountain lion populations.
💧 River Fest 2023
When: Sun, Jul 23rd from 05:00 PM to 09:00 PM
Where: Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA
This year, Friends of the LA River (FoLAR) is hosting our second annual River Fest – a free open-air arts, film, and community resource festival celebrating the LA River! River Fest 2023 will feature short environmental film screenings, local artists, live music, food trucks, drinks, interactive art and education exhibits, and more. All free general admission tickets include entry into River Fest, access to the evening’s films, exhibits, and performances, and more day-of River Fest activities!