LA Climate Tech: Sept 5 - Sept 11
LA Climate Tech: Sept 5 - Sept 11
Celebrate bicycles at a film screening, join a Women in Green breakfast, stop at a vegan playground - and more!
Hi all,
I hope you had a lovely Labor Day weekend!
Here is how I enjoyed mine 🌝. On Friday, I attended the soulful event: Exploring the Mycoverse 2nd Year Anniversary Potluck - I highly recommend checking out the next gatherings. On Saturday a friend gifted me a sourdough starter - my first sourdough bread will be in the oven tomorrow! On Sunday I enjoyed a stroll at the farmer’s market - I love meeting the people who grow the food I eat. And on Monday, I guided a tour of the sustainable stores in Highland Park - find the list below. This coming week is as exciting, here are our picks:
Are you a bicycle enthusiast? You would like to learn about the bicycle's unique power to change lives and help build a better world? On Wednesday, watch 🎬 The Engine Inside at the Aero Theatre and attend a panel discussion with sustainability and mobility experts: free bike valet (!) + bring your reusable water bottle!
Join USGBC-LA on Thursday for the Women in Green Committee's Annual Breakfast for an engaging panel, breakfast spread, community conversation, and networking. 🙋♀️
On Friday, attend the event hosted by Vegan Playground LA West Adams 🥕 for a fun-filled night of plant-based food, craft beer, and good vibes at Party Beer Co.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maëlys and Alec
Zero Waste Highland Park Tour:
💫 Wild Terra (my personal favorite!), for loose teas, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and spices (you can bring your our containers).
💫 SustainLA, the store offers items for both the kitchen and the bathroom (and more), it is also possible to shop online.
💫 Luca sells local cosmetic brands and zero waste kitchen and puppy 🐶 items.
💫 re_grocery is a bulk store for dry goods (+ kombucha on tap, oils, detergent and liquid soaps etc.).
💫 Cookbook Market: fresh produces, bread, natural wine.
Let me know if you go! Maëlys
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Events This Week
🎬 The Engine Inside Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Wed, Sep 6
🏢 GBC Fall Cohort Zoom Info Session: Wed, Sep 6
🙋♀️ Women In Green Breakfast: Our Impact with the Inflation Reduction Act: Thu, Sep 7
🧵 Make Mend II: Unravel, Unwind: Fri, Sep 8
🥕 Vegan Playground LA: Fri, Sep 8
🌳 Inglewood Tree Care: Sat, Sep 9
🦎 Living in a Wildlife Corridor - Artist Talk: Althea Edwards: Sat, Sep 9
🌸 Nature Walk at Forrestal Reserve: Sat, Sep 9
🌱 Urban Homestead Learning Tour: Sun, Sep 10
🌾 California Native Plant Society General Meeting: Mon, Sep 11
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
👷♀️ Orange County Women in Green: Tue, Sep 12
🎆 ASHRAE SoCal: A Practical Journey towards Zero Net Carbon: Tue, Sep 12
🌲 Green PR: Thu, Sep 14
🌍 Climate Reality OC Backyard Social and Chapter Meeting!: Thu, Sep 14
🖼️ Visions2030: Earth Edition, A Festival of Eco-Consciousness: Fri, Sep 15
🍻 The Carbonauts’ Sustainability Drinks: Fri, Sep 15
🎥 Eco-Film Screening Party: Fri, Sep 15
🌳 2nd Annual Sustainable Landscape Open House: Sat, Sep 16
🏡 Free Landscape Rebate Event: Sat, Sep 16
🎨 The Art of Happy Accidents: Using Natural Dyes for Unique Results: Sat, Sep 16
🏗️ So.Cal's - Most Significant Infrastructure & Building Programs: Tue, Sep 19
🚘 LACI's EVSE Project Management Training Course In Person Info Session: Tue, Sep 19
🌊 Causality with Sea Hares and Eelgrass: Tue, Sep 19
🌯 Keep it Local! Benefits of an IE Sustainable Food System: Wed, Sep 20
📖 At Skylight: Rosanna Xia presents California Against The Sea w/ Steve Lopez: Wed, Sep 20
🏢 The Decarbonization Impact of Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings: Thu, Sep 21
💧 OC EWRI Workshop - OCFCD Design Manual: Fri, Sep 22
♻️ 2023 California Land Recycling Conference: People, Partnerships, Progress: Tue, Sep 26
🚆 2023 Clean Mobility Forum: Tue, Oct 3
🌊 Blue Hour: Above & Below: Sat, Oct 14
Event Details
🎬 The Engine Inside Film Screening and Panel Discussion
When: Wed, Sep 6th from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Where: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA
The Engine Inside follows six everyday people from vastly different worlds who dedicate their lives to a simple, 200-year-old machine. Their trials and tribulations reveal the bicycle's unique power to change lives and help build a better world. Covering many different global issues—from climate change and indigenous trauma to socio-economic inequality and more livable cities —The Engine Inside sparks hope and agency in everyone it touches.
🏢 GBC Fall Cohort Zoom Info Session
When: Wed, Sep 6th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Where: Online
This engaging online event offers an opportunity to grasp insights into our upcoming autumn cohort. Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply curious, this session suits anyone keen on enrolling in our Green Building Corps Program. The USGBC-LA Green Building Corps (GBC) is a structured internship program that provides participants with valuable experience, relationships, and opportunities to contribute to green building projects with the goal to make the greater Los Angeles region healthier, more affordable, and sustainable for all.
🙋♀️ Women In Green Breakfast: Our Impact with the Inflation Reduction Act
When: Thu, Sep 7th from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
Where: City Club LA, 555 Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA
Join us for the Women in Green Committee's Annual Breakfast for an engaging panel, breakfast spread, community conversation, and networking! Join us for our annual community gathering where we’ll enjoy a morning breakfast spread (caffeine included!), networking, an engaging panel discussion, and audience Q&A. We can’t wait to see you there again this year at the City Club LA in DTLA!
🧵 Make Mend II: Unravel, Unwind
When: Fri, Sep 8th from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Where: Watt Hall, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA
Carrying on the popular Make Mend series of workshops, the dean and members of the USC Roski School of Art and Design host three new events promoting mending, fabrication, and sustainability while highlighting the Wabi Sabi concept of embracing flaws and finding beauty in imperfection. USC Roski faculty, staff, and students will lead sessions on unraveling, spinning, weaving, stitching, needlework, and other techniques to renew, reuse, and repurpose textiles.
🥕 Vegan Playground LA
When: Fri, Sep 8th from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: Party Beer Co, 4203 West Jefferson Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90016
Vegan Playground is the go-to weekly night market of the city of Los Angeles, uniting lovers of food, music, and good times. This event series happens every Friday night. Join us and 15+ rotating vegan vendors each week in celebrating all things vegan!
🌳 Inglewood Tree Care
When: Sat, Sep 9th from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Inglewood 90303, CA
Come join TreePeople's community forestry team and help restore our urban trees in Inglewood! Caring for trees that have already been planted increases shade, rainwater capture, cleanses water draining to the ocean, bolsters air quality, and mitigates the impact of climate change for Los Angeles County.
🦎 Living in a Wildlife Corridor - Artist Talk: Althea Edwards
When: Sat, Sep 9th from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Where: Boddy House, Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Althea Edwards is not only one of Living in a Wildlife Corridor’s exhibiting photographers, but also one of the show’s main curators! Come hear Althea’s unique perspective on wildlife photography and how she worked with the images and artwork on view to help curate this multi-faceted exhibition.
🌸 Nature Walk at Forrestal Reserve
When: Sat, Sep 9th from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where: Boddy House, Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Appreciate some of the best wildflower viewing and dramatic geological formations on the cliffs of this former basalt quarry. See the faults, folds and igneous intrusions visible in the sedimentary bedding. Hosted by Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy.
🌱 Urban Homestead Learning Tour
When: Sun, Sep 10th from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Where: Urban Homestead, 631 Cypress Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Learn how this family transformed their ordinary home into an extraordinary model of urban farming & sustainability. We’ll cover homesteading elements from food production, growing soil, chickens, energy and water conservation and much more!
🌾 California Native Plant Society General Meeting
When: Mon, Sep 9th from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Online
Dial in the next California Native Plant Society Chapter Meeting.
It was lovely to see you and Ricky at the Mycoverse on Friday -- what an insightful celebration with Dr. Danielle Stevenson! Also, we love re_grocery! Their fresh-baked bread is delicious!