LA Climate Tech: Sept 30 - Oct 7
LA Climate Tech: Sept 30 - Oct 7
NY Climate Week, Clean Mobility Forum, Art Exhibit, Wildlife Day - and more.
Hi friends,
After an intense LA Climate Week, members of our team dove into NY Climate Week, including events co-hosted by our very own NY Climate Tech Cities —and what a whirlwind it was! With hundreds of events unfolding across both weeks, the experience was overwhelming yet rewarding, as conversations shifted from climate change to climate ACTION. While there is still work to be done in understanding complex regulations, increasing organizational transparency, and using reporting data efficiently - governments, entrepreneurs, lenders, and investors are fully engaged in driving the transition that is underway, making the future look more promising as ever!
Here are our top event picks for this week:
On Tuesday, visit the 🖼 Brackish Water art exhibit showcasing issues of access, inclusion, and ecological racism along Los Angeles’ waterways.
Attend tours of a water recycling facility and participate in interactive water education booths and games with the entire family at 💧 Water Harvest 2024, on Saturday.
On Sunday, learn from local wildlife experts and ambassadors at Pasadena Humane’s all-ages 🦅 Wildlife Day event!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys, Niqat, Raiven & The Climate Tech Cities Team
This Week’s Events
🛢 Learning and Mending: Petro-Stained City: Tue, Oct 1
🖼 Art Exhibit - Brackish Water: Tue, Oct 1
🚐 2024 Clean Mobility Forum: Wed, Oct 2
🍂 Fall 2024 Economic Outlook - Climate Adaptation: Wed, Oct 2
🌤 Ursus Environmental Symposium - California Climate and Weather Now and in the Future: Wed, Oct 2
💧 Water Harvest 2024: Sat, Oct 5
🦅 Wildlife Day: Sun, Oct 6
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings.
Opportunities
Upcoming and Rolling Deadlines
🍇 Climate Vine membership Application (Due Oct 9)
🔬 Activate Fellowship (Due Oct 13)
🚀 Third Derivative's Accelerator Program (Due Oct 26)
💻 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
📍 Exploring the Mycoverse: Braiding Sweetgrass Becoming Naturalized to Place: Mon, Oct 7
☀️ CFROG's Cheers to 10 Years!: Thu, Oct 10
🐚 Community Cleanup Huntington Beach: Sat, Oct 12
🐛 LA BioBlitz: Sat, Oct 12
🥗 The Vegandale Experience - Food, Music and Art: Sat, Oct 12
🌐 SOSV Climate Tech Summit: Oct 14 - 18
🖥 LA Tech Week: Oct 14 - 20
⚖️ 2024 Climate Justice Conference: Tue, Oct 15
🚰 Water (R)evolution Symposium: Tue, Oct 15
☕️ High Impact Tea at UCLA: Wed, Oct 16
🛢 Fossil Free California - 10th Anniversary Celebration: Wed, Oct 16
🌊 AltaSea Open House - Hydrogen’s Role in a Sustainable Future: Sat, Oct 19
🌳 Rooted: Creating Equitable Access to Green Space for Black Angelenos: Sun, Oct 20
🌿 Exploring the Mycoverse: Braiding Sweetgrass - The Sacred & The Superfund: Mon, Oct 21
⚡ Sustain SoCal 15th Annual Energy Event: Thu, Oct 24
⚖️ 10th Annual Environmental Justice Conference: Thu, Oct 24
👣 Walks of Resilience and Accountability: Fri, Oct 25
👩🌾 Regenerative Organic Learning Center Field Day: Mon, Oct 28
⛏️ Sustainable Lithium Extraction Summit: Tue, Nov 5
💻 Green Tech Festival Connect LA: Nov, 14 - 15
This Week in Depth
🛢 Learning and Mending: Petro-Stained City
When: Tuesday, October 1st from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Online
Organized by Metabolic Studio, the series will discuss the role of narrative and visibility in the historical and contemporary oil economy of Los Angeles, the city’s petroculture, and its unevenly distributed environmental and public health effects. This series was curated by Ariel West, a filmmaker, researcher, and archivist from Los Angeles based in Queens, New York. Ariel uses time-based media to reflect on how infrastructure, power, and history shape the image of a place—unraveling these narratives through memory, archival research, and oral history.
🖼 Art Exhibit - Brackish Water
When: Monday, October 1st onwards
Where: California State University, La Corte Hall (A-107), 1000 E. Victoria Street Carson, CA 90747
Metabolic Studio is an interdisciplinary art and research hub based in Los Angeles, California. Directed by artist Lauren Bon, the studio operates with a mission to explore and address critical social and environmental issues through art interventions and innovative projects aimed at reparation. Last Wednesday, they opened a new exhibit to the public titled Brackish Water, which considers issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges along Los Angeles’ waterways. The exhibition is part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative and will be on view till the 14th of December.
🚐 2024 Clean Mobility Forum
When: Wednesday, October 2nd from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Where: Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street Pasadena, CA 91101
The Clean Mobility Equity Alliance team is hosting the 2nd annual Clean Mobility Forum funded by the California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission! The Forum is a one-day in-person event focused on clean mobility topics and discussions. There will be an option for virtual attendance for keynote speeches and most sessions. The forum agenda includes a keynote plenary, panels, workshops, and a closeout plenary and reception. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and connect in person with clean mobility project awardees, experts in the field, and other potential partners, as well as learn about and share project lessons and successes.
🍂 Fall 2024 Economic Outlook - Climate Adaptation
When: Wednesday, October 2nd from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Executive Dining Room (Gold Hall) - UCLA Anderson School (and Online), 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
The economy keeps churning along but so does climate change. These two forces are important for future economic growth, consumption and investment growth. Rosanna Xia, an environmental reporter at the Los Angeles Times, will introduce her award-winning book on sea level rise, California Against the Sea, and share insights that she has gathered in the course of her reporting. She will also reflect on the critical roles that economists, researchers, and financial institutions could play in deepening these much-needed conversations on climate adaptation.
🌤 Ursus Environmental Symposium - California Climate and Weather Now and in the Future
When: Wednesday, October 2nd from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Where: Online
Organized by UCLA Geography, the Ursus Environmental Symposium will talk about heat domes, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones and climate whiplash.
💧 Water Harvest 2024
When: Saturday, October 5th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility, 1935 South Hughes Way El Segundo, CA 90245
West Basin is excited for its 2024 in-person event. It is free, family-friendly event welcomes community members who participate in a number of fun, educational activities including tours of the water recycling facility, stage shows, interactive water education booths, games, kids’ costume contests, opportunity drawings, and more! Visit their website to know more about the schedule, parking options and more.
🦅 Wildlife Day
When: Sunday, October 6th from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Pasadena Humane, 361 South Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105
Organized by Pasadema Humane. This free, all-ages event includes fascinating presentations by local wildlife experts, fun and educational activities for kids (such as face painting, crafting, and interactive science demos), and a vendor marketplace where you can purchase artwork, native plants, and more. There will also be a variety of amazing ambassador animals to see! Visit the registration link for more details of vendors and animal ambassadors for the event.