SF Bay Climate Tech: July 10 - July 17
Sustainable e-commerce, climate game nights, and women and climate dinners in SF!
Hi friends,
We hope you had a great week celebrating America, and now it’s back to work making sure we continue to build resilient and sustainable communities from sea to shining sea!
We’ve got a great lineup of events this week ranging from climate-themed happy hours and dinners to conferences on energy and sustainability. Here are our top picks:
Waiting for your Amazon delivery? Learn about 🌍 Sustainability across the globe and figure out how you can make your e-commerce obsession more sustainable this Tuesday!
🧩 Understand Climate Change in 3 hours through a fun game night in Sunnyvale this Wednesday!
Come join fellow 🙋♀️ Women & Climate for a happy hour at Zeitgeist in the Mission in San Francisco on Thursday!
As always, scroll down for a full list of events!
Cheers,
The SF Bay Climate Tech Team
🌎 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!
Community Shoutouts
👩🏻🌾 Terra.do’s Climate Farm School
The Climate Farm School program at Terra.do is a unique opportunity for adult professionals to get their hands dirty on a regenerative farm for a week while learning about climate solutions within sustainable food systems. We’re enrolling cohorts that launch in July or September, at Green Valley Farm + Mill in Sebastopol, CA and Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, NY. Contact program director Laney Siegner with any questions: laney@terra.do.
Events This Week
🚙 Lucid Motors x YPE: Panel and Happy Hour: Tue, Jul 11
🌍 Sustainability across the globe - Fireside Talk: Tue, Jul 11
🍀 Venture Capital Panel: Investment & Innovations in Energy & Climate Tech: Wed, Jul 12
🌿 The Future of Sustainability: Wed, Jul 12
🧩 Understand Climate Change in 3 hours: Wed, Jul 12
🙋♀️ Women & Climate Happy Hour: Thu, Jul 13
🍻 Green Drinks SF: Thu, Jul 13
☀️ The Solar Panel with CTAN: Thu, Jul 13
🧩 Petaluma Climate Action Commission Meeting: Thu, Jul 13
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Events This Month
🔌 Impact Talk: Climate Tech Perspectives: Powering our Future with Hydrogen: Mon, Jul 17
🌎 July Work on Climate Wednesday: Wed, Jul 19
🌲 "Beyond the Trees" - Movie Screening: Wed, Jul 19
🌱 LabStart x Port Labs Summer Climate Tech Happy Hour: Thu, Jul 20
🎨 BEACON: Climate Co Art Show: Thu, Jul 27
🎲 Understand climate change in 3 hours: Sat, Jul 29
Events This Week
🚙 Lucid Motors x YPE: Panel and Happy Hour
When: Tue, Jul 11th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Lucid Studio Millbrae, 355 Adrian Road, Millbrae, CA 94030
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) is excited to partner with Lucid Motors to host a Panel and Happy Hour on July 11th, 5:30-8PM! The in-person event will take place at Lucid's Millbrae showroom (355 Adrian Road, Millbrae, CA 94030). Come test drive/ride Lucid's all-electric Air, meet other electric vehicle enthusiasts, and learn about the latest advancements in clean energy transportation. There will be a Panel with Lucid employees and snacks and drinks provided at the event! All are welcome to attend. We're excited to see you there!
🌍 Sustainability across the globe - Fireside Talk
When: Tue, Jul 11th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: 361 Lytton Ave #100, Palo Alto, CA 94301
E-commerce is booming, but what is the environmental impact of this trend? How can we reduce the carbon footprint of online shopping and delivery? How can we create more sustainable and innovative solutions for urban green spaces? Join us for a tech event about sustainability in e-commerce and learn how to save money on your online shopping & make it more eco-friendly.
🍀 Venture Capital Panel: Investment & Innovations in Energy & Climate Tech
When: Wed, Jul 12th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Perkins Coie, 3150 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304
A distinguished panel of venture capitalists will discuss investment and innovations in energy and climate tech. Featuring Ephraim Lindenbaum from Advance Ventures, Zoe Samuel from Starshot Capital, and Arman Pahlavan from Perkins Cole.
🌿 The Future of Sustainability
When: Wed, Jul 12th from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: The Multiverse, 361 Lytton Avenue #Suite, 100 Palo Alto, CA 94301
🌿 Sustainability is a global imperative. California Software Professional Association (CSPA) is thrilled to invite you to our highly anticipated panel discussion on the future of sustainability, where industry leaders, renowned experts, and influential investors will converge to share their insights and drive impactful changes.
🧩 Understand Climate Change in 3 hours
When: Wed, Jul 12th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Sunnyvale Public Library, 665 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Players will work together to connect the causes and effects of climate change, learn about the science from the IPCC reports: the United Nations panel of scientists that has been studying climate change since 1988; and discuss ways to help reduce the effects of climate change.
🙋♀️ Women & Climate Happy Hour
When: Thu, Jul 13th from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
Come join fellow Women in Climate for a happy hour at Zeitgeist, a local SF Bar in the Mission, SF 🍻 No climate experience necessary! The event is hosted by three female founded organizations! Amanda Li, Michelle Li, and Helena Merk
🍻 Green Drinks SF
When: Thu, Jul 13th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Southern Pacific Brewing, 620 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA
For July, San Francisco Green Drinks is hosting our monthly In-person Happy Hour Networking Event at 5:30PM on Thursday, July 13th, at Southern Pacific Brewing - a venue that should be familiar to our friends from Climatebase, Work on Climate, and others in the San Francisco Bay Area Climate Solutions Community!
☀️ The Solar Panel with CTAN
When: Thu, Jul 13th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Manny’s, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Come join us for a night of climate tech industry networking and inquiry in the solar energy space! Join us as we host some of the Bay Area's hottest startups in the field of solar energy! We'll take a top-to-bottom look at the industry value chain, from new advances in semiconductors all the way up to project development and deployment.
🧩 Petaluma Climate Action Commission Meeting
When: Thu, Jul 13th from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: 11 English Street, Petaluma, CA 94952
The Climate Action Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month. The meetings take place in person in City Council Chambers at 11 English Street, Petaluma, California.
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Climate Tech Cities
We are expanding! We started as an 8-person dinner and now have over 7,000 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!