LA Climate Tech: Oct 28 - Nov 4
Sustainable Fashion, Energy Network, Spooky Native Plants, Desert Field Trip, and more events this week!
Hi friends,
Science says you need more art. And PST ART is back. 800+ artists. 70+ institutions. One theme: Art & Science Collide! More about it below.
Here are our top event picks for the week:
Monday through Thursday, connect with leaders and experts from the fashion, textile, and apparel industry at the 🧶 Textile Exchange Conference to tackle the climate crisis together.
Tuesday, join ⚡️ CalREN's 1st Annual Stakeholder Forum, spotlighting innovative workforce development, education, and training initiatives across California.
Get spooky on Wednesday! Dive into the 👻 Spooky Native Plants of California for an online exploration of the state’s most eerie native plants - carnivorous, poisonous, and parasitic!
Next Saturday, embark on a 🏜️ Desert Ecology Field Trip to the Mojave Desert with the Mojave Desert Land Trust.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys, Niqat, Raiven & The Climate Tech Cities Team
This Week’s Events
👩🌾 Regenerative Organic Learning Center Field Day: Mon, Oct 28
🧶 Textile Exchange Conference: Oct 28 - 31
🫘 African Food Legacies in the Americas: Tue, Oct 29
⚡️ CalREN's 1st Annual Stakeholder Forum: Tue, Oct 29
👻 Spooky Native Plants of California with Cole Oost: Wed, Oct 30
🪱 Echo Park Community Compost Hub: Wed, Oct 30
🌊 CivicWell Climate Disaster Resilience and Recovery Webinar: Thu, Oct 31
♻️ Decarbonization & ESG Fundamentals Workshop for Small Businesses: Fri, Oct 1
🏜️ Desert Ecology Field Trip: Sat, Nov 2
💡 Climate Fresk (Kids 8-14 yo. & Adults): Sat, Nov 2
🗳️ Election Day, Vote!: Tue, Nov 5
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings.
PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Don’t miss it! PST ART (previously known as Pacific Standard Time), the largest art event in the United States, returned for its third edition on September 15, 2024, this time engaging audiences throughout Southern California with the theme of Art & Science Collide. With the support of nearly $20 million in grants from Getty, dozens of cultural, scientific, and community organizations are presenting more than 60 deeply researched exhibitions and an extraordinary spectrum of public programs over the course of five months, all exploring the intersections of art and science: past, present, and in the imaginable future. Topics of the unprecedented initiative range from biotechnology to sustainable agriculture, from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous sci-fi, and from artificial intelligence to environmental justice. Dive into art-meets-science experiences with visits to places like these:
We Place Life at the Center / Situamos La Vida en El Centro, Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College
Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology, Skirball Cultural Center
Blended Worlds: Experiments In Interplanetary Imagination, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism, The Brick
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum at UCLA
Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (images below)
and more!
Community Shoutouts!
Claim $25 to back solar projects on Renewables.org
Renewables.org is offering Climate Tech Cities subscribers $25 free to get started with their Global South solar investing nonprofit. When you back solar projects on Renewables.org, your funds help build the world’s highest carbon impact renewables across India and Africa. The best part is you get repaid to your Renewables.org account where you can choose to withdraw funds, or redeploy them for even more impact.
Opportunities
Scale For Climate Tech : Applications now open
We’re excited to announce that applications are now open to join Cohort 6 of Scale For ClimateTech. Participating companies receive immersive training on manufacturing and access to an extensive network of mentors, experts, investors, manufacturers, suppliers, and more – all dedicated to supporting business growth, commercialization and making manufacturing easier.
Upcoming and Rolling Deadlines
🚀 Third Derivative's Accelerator Program (Due Oct 26)
🏭 Scale For ClimateTech Cohort 6 (Due Nov 30)
🌇 LACI Incubation C10 (Due Dec 12)
💻 Techstars Accelerator Program (Rolling Applications)
👉 Would you like to feature a grant opportunity, fellowship application, or incubation program in the LA Climate Tech Cities newsletter? Reach out to us with the info.
Upcoming Events
🗳️ Election Day, Vote!: Tue, Nov 5
⛏️ Sustainable Lithium Extraction Summit: Tue, Nov 5
🔍 An Evening with Climate Expert and National Security Advisor: Wed, Nov 6
🌊 Educator Development for the Blue Economy: Thu, Nov 7
🍻 Climate Techies SoCal Networking: Thu, Nov 7
🍽️ Green Industry Hall of Fame 2024 Awards Dinner: Thu, Nov 7
🍻 Climate Night: Activity + Mixer: Thu, Nov 7
🌿 Trail to Table: Native Plant Walk & Tasting: Sat, Nov 9
🐞 Garden Weekend Workshops: Sat, Nov 9
🪸 Seaweed Workshop with Kelpful: Sun, Nov 10
🧶 Algae Yarn Crochet Workshop: Conceptual Exploration of Bio-Materials: Sun, Nov 10
🌲 Group Forest Bathing Walk: Mon, Nov 11
🟢 Green Economy Conference (GEC4): Nov 13
💡 Climate Fresk & Circular Economy: Thu, Nov 14
💻 Green Tech Festival Connect LA: Nov 14 - 15
🛶 LA River Arts Annual Benefit: Sat, Nov 16
🏠 Flooring Reborn: The Essentials of Commercial Carpet Tile Reuse & Recycling: Wed, Nov 20
🎥 A Year In A Field –US Premiere: Fri, Nov 22
💡 Climate Fresk & Sustainable Digital Tech: Thu, Dec 5
🦪 Prying Into the Private Lives of Mussels and Oysters: Fri, Dec 6
🚀 ECO ‘24 LA: Dec 9-10
🏢 USGBC California’s 20th Annual Green Gala & California Green Building Awards: Wed, Dec 11
This Week in Depth
👩🌾 Regenerative Organic Learning Center Field Day
When: Monday, October 28th from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Where: The Ecology Center, 32701 Alipaz Street San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Join us as we launch our Regenerative Organic Learning Center with our field day at The Ecology Center.
🧶 Textile Exchange Conference
When: Monday, October 28th through Thursday, October 31st
Where: Pasadena Convention Center
Our conference brings together leaders and experts from across the fashion, textile, and apparel industry, providing a space to collaboratively explore challenges and solutions to overcome the climate crisis. This year, we look forward to welcoming brands, supply system partners, material innovators, farmers, non-profit organizations, academics, and more to discuss this year’s theme, The Case for Change.
🫘 African Food Legacies in the Americas
When: Tuesday, October 29th from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Professor Judith Carney will present a talk on African agency in creolizing the foodways of the Americas, the ways the enslaved people made African foods part of the New World dietary traditions, and the role of subaltern food plots in making this possible in plantation societies. Light refreshments will be served. Distinguished Research Professor Emerita Judith Carney’s research centers on African ecology and development, food security, gender and agrarian change, and African contributions to New World environmental history. She is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and two books: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2001) and In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (University of California Press, 2009).
⚡️ CalREN's 1st Annual Stakeholder Forum
When: Tuesday, October 29th from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Online
CalREN is shining a spotlight on the groundbreaking workforce development, education & training (WE&T) initiatives across California and setting the stage for future WE&T innovations in the state’s energy sector. Get ready for this year’s theme, Reimagining the Future: Strengthening the energy workforce for a more sustainable California.
👻 Spooky Native Plants of California with Cole Oost
When: Wednesday, October 30th from 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Where: Online
Get into the Halloween spirit with this eerie exploration of California's spookiest native plants! From parasites that feed off their unsuspecting hosts to carnivores that trap and dissolve their prey, it seems our local flora are hiding some truly terrifying tricks. We’ll also learn more about the frightening, yet fascinating, pollinators that aid these plants, as well as some of the “creepy” invasive species threatening our native ecosystems. This talk is perfect for plant enthusiasts looking to celebrate the scary side of the botanical world.
🪱 Echo Park Community Compost Hub
When: Wednesday, October 30th from 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Los Angeles, CA 90026
Support Seeds of Hope to work with their compost! This work helps eliminate food from the landfill and creates custom compost that is from local plants like natives, fruits and veggies and tree trimmings. All that comes together to create beautiful fertilizer.
🌊 CivicWell Climate Disaster Resilience and Recovery Webinar
When: Thursday, October 31st from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Online
While California communities face the ongoing and growing threat of wildfire and other climate-related disasters, the funding landscape for long-term planning, infrastructure improvements, and capacity building for resilience is unpredictable. Panelists in this webinar will speak about continuing to build resilience to the impacts of climate change in spite of an uncertain funding future and how local communities make the most of state and federal funding to prepare for and respond to extreme weather events.
♻️ Decarbonization & ESG Fundamentals Workshop for Small Businesses
When: Friday, November 1st from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Online
Many companies are facing increasing pressure to understand the environmental impacts of their work, especially in identifying their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions through Scope 1, Scope 2, and now Scope 3 emissions calculations. However, smaller businesses often lack the knowledge required to track emissions contributions and report to their clients as part of their emissions reporting. Brightworks Sustainability has partnered with USGBC-CA to present a unique workshop designed specifically for small businesses. This workshop aims to educate businesses on carbon accounting and ESG reporting, allowing them to demonstrate leadership in these areas. Our experts will guide participants through the voluntary frameworks and provide them with the tools to analyze their business operations, report to clients, and make improvements that will benefit people, the planet, and profit.
🏜️ Desert Ecology Field Trip
When: Saturday, November 2nd from 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Where: Union Station East, 811 North Vignes Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
We’re thrilled to invite you to a day-long field trip celebrating the launch of our episode from the web series Teaching Climate Together—all about the incredible desert ecology of the Mojave! We’ll be partnering with the Mojave Desert Land Trust (MDLT) for an unforgettable experience. We'll be meeting at their headquarters. We’ll kick things off with a bus pick-up from Los Angeles Union Station East and take a scenic ride out to the stunning Mojave Desert. On this adventure, you’ll dive deep into desert ecology, guided by experts who are as passionate about conservation as you are.
💡 Climate Fresk (Kids 8-14 yo. & Adults)
When: Saturday, November 2nd from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: International School of Los Angeles / Lycée International (LILA), 1105 W Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91506, USA
Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop organized in collaboration with the International School of Los Angeles (LILA) to understand climate change. This hands-on, educational, and collaborative experience is designed for both adults (14+) and children (8-14 years old), inspiring all participants to become the climate change-makers of tomorrow.