SF Bay Climate Tech: Feb 19 - Feb 26
Start up your cleantech solution, climate happy hours, gallery debates, and more events this week!
Hi friends,
Hope you had a great holiday weekend! Here are our picks for the week:
Learn about Cleantech Open on Tuesday 📈 Start Up Your Cleantech Solution Sooner, Not Later and Wednesday at the 🌱 Cleantech Open Kick-Off Event, both in the East Bay outside of Fremont
On Thursday in SF, join Women in Renewable Industries and Sustainability for their 🙋♀️ SF Bay Area Chapter 2024 Inaugural Event
Also on Thursday, head to Molly O’s in San Carlos for this month’s 🍹 Peninsula Climate Happy Hour
ALSO on Thursday, swing by Strike-Slip Gallery in SF for 🎨 Gallery Debate Nights: Climate Series with judges from Heirloom, Congruent Ventures, and the University of Hawaii
Looking to get more involved or start volunteering? Join the Climate Tech Cities contributor network!
Cheers,
Alec, Kathryn, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
Events This Week
East Bay: 📈 Start Up Your Cleantech Solution Sooner, Not Later: Tue, Feb 20
SF: ♻️ Recology San Francisco Public Tour: Wed, Feb 21
SF: 🌿 Bay Area Remake Monthly Meetup: Wed, Feb 21
SF: 🎴 Climate Fresk: Wed, Feb 21
East Bay: 🌱 Cleantech Open Kick-Off Event: Wed, Feb 21
SF: 🙋♀️ WRISE SF Bay Area Chapter 2024 Inaugural Event: Thu, Feb 22
Peninsula: 🍹 Peninsula Climate Happy Hour: Thu, Feb 22
SF: 🎨 Gallery Debate Nights: Climate Series: Thu, Feb 22
Peninsula: 🌍 NetZero a Reality?: Fri, Feb 23
East Bay: 🪴 Gardening In A Changing Climate: Sat, Feb 24
We’re experimenting with a new rearrangement this week: We’re bringing up the list of this week’s events, but dropping the detailed listings that normally follow. What do you all think? Do you like listings with blurbs or just the short lists? Reply and let me know! You’ll be able to find upcoming events at the bottom, as usual.
🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms
Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Grant & Accelerator Opportunities
🚇 Transit Innovation (Due Feb. 28)
The Transit Tech Lab provides an accelerated pathway for early to growth-stage companies to solve public transportation challenges for the largest transit agencies in North America.
🌬️ OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge (Due Mar 4)
The OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge is a worldwide challenge for students to create new processes, approaches and prototypes to remove carbon from the land, waters, or air. Student teams will design and build creative solutions to the carbon pollution problem. The very best approaches will be selected as finalists for an in-person showcase at the Carbon Unbound conference in May 2024.
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
🤩 Brand New Brand (Due Mar. 22)
☀️ Mária Telkes Fellowship (Due Mar. 31)
Arts, Film, and More!
📽️ Bloomberg GreenDocs (Due Apr. 26)
The Bloomberg Green Docs competition is open to all eligible filmmakers who would like to compete to win a $25,000 grand prize for a short climate documentary. We want to explore our climate future with documentaries that reveal the world we are making today. Ecosystems are being restored and tomorrow’s zero-carbon communities are being formed. At the same time, extremes in our habitats warn of cascading climate consequences.
🎬 Climate Film Festival Open Call (Due Jun. 3)
The Climate Film Festival (CFF) is New York City’s first film festival dedicated to climate in all its forms. From narrative and documentary features to experimental shorts and music videos, CFF harnesses the transformative power of motion pictures, showcasing new and established voices, classic climate films, and energizing, human stories. Our inaugural festival will take place from September 20-22, 2024 during the opening weekend of Climate Week NYC.
Upcoming Events
💸 Renewable Rodeo: Roping in Billions for Green Energy: Mon, Feb 26
🌱 Social Impact Summit 2024: Tue, Feb 27
🌍 Kumi Naidoo: How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster: Tue, Feb 27
🌊 Symbiosis | Ocean & Humanity: Wed, Feb 28
📊 Tech, Social & Environmental Impact on Supply Chain Resilience: Thu, Feb 29
🧩 SF ClimateHack Meetup: FOAK, Yeah!: Fri, Mar 1
💩 Free Urban Composting Workshops 2024: Sat, Mar 2
🥗 2024 SF Food Action Summit: The Road to Good Food: Sun, Mar 3
🌊 Author Event: California Against the Sea by Rosanna Xia: Tue, Mar 5
🌍 Climate, Business, and Innovation Summit 2024: Wed, Mar 6
🍻 East Bay Climate Happy Hour: Thu, Mar 7
💧 CEU: Water, Wellness & Sustainability: Wed, Mar 13
💼 Corporate Sustainability Measurement & Reporting: From Whether, to How: Wed, Mar 20
🙋 Bay Area Remake Monthly Meetup: Wed, Mar 20
🌳 Governor Jay Inslee: On Climate Action in the Political Landscape of 2024: Wed, Mar 20
🌲 Promise to Our Planet 2024: Thu, Mar 21
🌇 USGBC & AIA Happy Hour and Networking Night: Thu, Mar 21
🌅 Climate Optimist Club presented by hypha.network: Thu, Mar 21
⛓️ Sustainable Supply Chain in IT, Pharma and Financial industry: Fri, Mar 22
🌐 Policy Equity Conference: Advancing Economic & Workforce Development: Fri, Mar 29