SF Bay Climate Tech: August 7 - August 14
Learn about trash, and get rid of it with a circular economy showdown to invent the future (with some bonus happy hours along the way!)
Hi friends,
As wildfire season gets underway, PG&E is expanding a new technology that will cut power almost instantly when a tree branch hits a power line. The goal is to shift a short-term loss into a long-term gain and we certainly hope this will prevent wildfires from spreading. When combined with other technologies to predict the spread and direction of fires, it’s an all hands on deck situation to ensure this year’s wildfire season is tempered as much as possible.
There’s a lot on the climate docket this week! Here are our top picks:
Invent the future with a deep dive on the circular economy at the NEDO SV Foresight Seminars on Monday.
Where does all your trash go? Find out during the Recology San Francisco Public Tour on Wednesday! Afterwards, check out the SF Blue Tech Happy Hour Meetup while you’re at it.
Learn about The Future of Energy Decarbonization & Resiliency at the AIA in Oakland and then hop across the bay to the San Francisco Green Drinks Monthly Happy Hour Meetup on Thursday!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
The Climate Tech Cities Team
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Events This Week
🙋♀️ USGBC Women in Green present: Circularity in Design Thinking: Mon, Aug 7
✨ NEDO SV Foresight Seminars: Inventing the Future: Session 7: Mon, Aug 7
🟢 Recology San Francisco Public Tour: Wed, Aug 9
🌊 SF Blue Tech Happy Hour Meetup: Wed, Aug 9
✅ Leading Transportation Agencies through Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Wed, Aug 9
⚡️ Grid-Adaptive Microgrids: The Future of Energy Decarbonization & Resiliency: Thu, Aug 10
🍻 San Francisco Green Drinks Monthly Happy Hour Meetup: Thu, Aug 10
🪴 Patagonia Documentary, “The Scale of Hope" & Q&A with Molly Kawahata: Thu, Aug 10
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Upcoming Events
🌱 Barbara Lee: Road to the Senate 2024: Mon, Aug 14
💚 August 16 Networking Mixer: Wed, Aug 16
💨 SF Bay Area Offshore Wind Drinks: Wed, Aug 16
🎨 Making the Built Environment Smarter with Hardware: Wed, Aug 16
🌳 Climate Optimists Club with Hypha Network: Thu, Aug 17
🧵 Clothing Swap: Sat, Aug 19
🎲 Understand Climate Change in 3 hours: Sat, Aug 19
🌊 Forty Years of History - Engineering Sea Level Rise at Shoreline and Beyond: Sun, Aug 27
🌏 Roving the Refuge: Newark Resilience Hotspots Outing: Sun, Aug 27
🎞️ Free Film screening and discussion: Sun, Aug 27
🎬 How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Free screening and discussion: Sun, Aug 27
💦 Water Efficiency Customer Workshop: Tue, Aug 29
🎲 Understand climate change in 3 hours: Sat, Sep 9
🏢 Legislative Action for Embodied Carbon: Tue, Sep 12
🎹 ClimateMusic Fundraiser & Concert: at Fort Mason with COPUS: Thu, Sep 14
Event Details
🙋♀️ USGBC Women in Green present "Circularity in Design Thinking"
When: Mon, Aug 7th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Google Community Space, 188 Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Please join the USGBC NCC Women in Green for our annual celebration and gathering for women advancing sustainability in the building trades! We have an evening of activities, speakers, and networking planned to help strengthen our community and explore the concept of circularity in our work.
✨ NEDO SV Foresight Seminars: Inventing the Future: Session 7
When: Mon, Aug 7th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 North Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA
You are cordially invited to an in-person seminar exploring Innovation in Materials for the Circular Economy. This is the seventh Silicon Valley Foresight Four Seminar Series featuring solutions to advance the goal of a sustainable future with Net Zero emissions by 2050.
🟢 Recology San Francisco Public Tour
When: Wed, Aug 9th from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: The John A. Legnitto Environmental Learning Center, 401 Tunnel Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Have you ever wondered what happens to the items you put in the blue, green, or landfill bins in San Francisco? Join a Recology Public Tour to find out and become an expert on why we sort and how to do it properly.
🌊 SF Blue Tech Happy Hour Meetup
When: Wed, Aug 9th from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: South Beach Cafe, 800 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Growth of blue tech start ups, NGOs and restoration efforts are on the upswing in the San Francisco Bay region. We'd like to gather together like-minded scientists, ocean stewards, tech pros, students, educators and angel investors to network, share resources and ideas.
🚊 Leading Transportation Agencies through Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
When: Wed, Aug 9th from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Port of San Francisco, Pier 1 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
California’s transportation system sits squarely at the crossroads of climate mitigation and adaptation. Generating over half of the state’s greenhouse gases, the transportation sector is a major part of state and local decarbonization goals. At the same time, the state’s transportation infrastructure is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, especially increased storm activity and sea level rise. This session shares how the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and BART have recently explored bold changes to their transportation infrastructure and regulation to confront both challenges.
⚡️ Grid-Adaptive Microgrids: The Future of Energy Decarbonization & Resiliency
When: Thu, Aug 10th from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Where: Lowney Architecture, 360 17th Street, Oakland, CA
As the building industry shifts focus from the metric of energy to the metric of greenhouse gas emissions, the relationship between buildings and their energy utilities is changing. This session will look at pathways for building decarbonization and the potential for grid-interactive buildings to lower emissions quickly and enable a faster transition to a decarbonized grid and localized energy resiliency in the future. Through case studies of successful microgrids, these projects demonstrate how we can meet climate goals, ensure resiliency, and advance the industry as a whole.
🍻 San Francisco Green Drinks Monthly Happy Hour Meetup
When: Thu, Aug 10th from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Southern Pacific Brewing, 620 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Green Drinks (SFGD) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization that actively promotes green networking, education and volunteer events in the San Francisco Bay Area. SFGD’s mission is to be the eco-conscious hub, both on and offline, for local individuals, organizations, and businesses that aim to strengthen and support the local environmental and green community.
🪴 Patagonia Documentary, “The Scale of Hope" & Q&A with Molly Kawahata
When: Thu, Aug 10th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Orinda Theatre, 4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda, CA
The scale of climate change can make an individual feel hopelessly small, and Molly Kawahata knows this feeling well. As a former climate advisor to the Obama White House and an alpine climber with dreams of big summits, Molly has dedicated her life to taking on seemingly insurmountable challenges. But it’s her personal struggle with mental health that gives her a profound understanding of how to harness the power of the mind to create change.
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Climate Tech Cities
We are expanding! We started as an 8-person dinner and now have over 8,000 members in our community. We’ve had people across the world reach out to us to start their own chapters - so we’re launching a new Climate Tech Cities organization this year! If you have friends who are interested in becoming chapter leads, please share the word. Here’s to a global network of local communities making a positive impact!