SF Bay Climate Tech: June 19 - June 26
SF Bay Climate Tech: June 19 - June 26
Climate tech happy hours, green stories, Pac 12 sustainability, water, astronomy, grid innovation, and more events this week
Hi friends,
It’s a lighter email this week—we were just in Amsterdam for The Next Web, where we launched a new chapter, and met with European entrepreneurs, policymakers, and community builders. It’s incredible to see the energy for Climate picking up around the world!
Here are our picks for the week:
On Wednesday head to a 🍻 Work on Climate HH at South Pacific Brewing in SF.
📈 2023 Ventures Summit - Climate Innovation: Thu, Jun 22
Thursday, join Matthieu Soulé and MCJ for the 🌱 SF Climate Tech Meetup at Zeitgeist in SF
Get an expanded view on all things “Green” with 💚 StorySlam Oakland this Sunday, highlighting five-minute stories related the color of climate.
Cheers,
The SF Climate Tech Team
Events This Week
💧 The Proof Is in the Water: Touring the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center [In-Person Tour]: Tue, Jun 20
🔭 Astronomy for Planet Earth: Tue, Jun 20
🔌 The Grid: What is it and Should it Shape Policy for All-Electric Buildings?: Wed, Jun 21
🏅 Pac 12 Sustainability Conference: Wed, Jun 21
🍻 Work on Climate Wednesday: Wed, Jun 21
📈 2023 Ventures Summit - Climate Innovation: Thu, Jun 22
🌱 SF Climate Tech Meetup: Thu, Jun 22
💚 StorySlam Oakland presents Green: Sun, Jun 25
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
Events This Month
🔌 Residential Electrification Strategies for Contractors: Mon, Jun 26
🥕 How You Can Change the Future of Food: Mon, Jun 26
♻️ Recology San Francisco Public Tour: Wed, Jun 28
💸 The Anti-ESG Movement: Wed, Jun 28
⚖️ Climate Justice Happy Hour: Wed, Jun 28
⛳️ RLC Hosts a Putting GREEN Social: Thu, Jun 29
🐟 After Dark: Ecological Futures: Thu, Jun 29
☀️ The Solar Panel with CTAN: Thu, Jul 13
🌱 LabStart x Port Labs Summer Climate Tech Happy Hour: Thu, Jul 20
Events This Week
💧 The Proof Is in the Water: Touring the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
When: Tue, Jun 20th from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Where: Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, San Jose, CA
Join us on a tour of the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center to learn how Valley Water is already producing drinking-water quality water and to discover how recycled and purified water fits into a sustainable future for a growing region.
🔭 Astronomy for Planet Earth
When: Tue, Jun 20th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: HopMonk Tavern Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato, CA 94945
The past few decades of astronomical discovery have been breathtaking: thirty years of awe-inspiring images from two Space Telescopes (Hubble & Webb), thousands of planets found circling nearby stars, mind-bending and spacetime-bending gravity waves and, quite recently, a stunning image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. What is the value of all of these discoveries? Can learning about our place in the Universe inspire us, as Carl Sagan put it, to preserve and cherish the Pale Blue Dot? Our speaker, Dr. Adrienne Cool, is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at San Francisco State University. She is also co-founder of Astronomers for Planet Earth, an international organization working to address climate change from a cosmic perspective.
🔌 The Grid: What is it and Should it Shape Policy for All-Electric Buildings?
When: Wed, Jun 21st from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Yerba Buena Room (Bay Area Metro Center), 375 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Questions about the electric grid’s capacity and reliability are coming up as local governments consider policies related to building energy use and electrification. Join us to explore these questions, starting with how the grid works. Speakers will also discuss California’s plans to ensure a reliable and affordable grid powered with renewable energy, the role of utilities, and how local governments are navigating the issues.
🏅 Pac 12 Sustainability Conference
When: Wed, Jun 21st at 1:00 PM to Thu, Jun 22nd at 5:00 PM
Where: Denning House, 580 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
The Pac-12 Sustainability Conference is focused on an elevated approach to driving sustainability action within collegiate athletics departments, designing new collective initiatives, and sharing best practices to transform college sports into a platform for social impact and environmental progress.
🍻 Work on Climate Wednesday
When: Wed, Jun 21st from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Southern Pacific Brewing, 620 Treat Ave, San Francisco, CA
We're back for our monthly Bay Area climate community meetup! 🌎 All are welcome: climate job seekers, climate employers, and folks already working in climate.✨ Bonus points if you bring a climate curious friend ✨
📈 2023 Ventures Summit - Climate Innovation
When: Thu, Jun 22nd from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, CA 94043
8th Annual Conference, with an exclusive focus this year on mission-driven Innovation and Investing, that help accelerate resolution to pressing challenges and improve human life at the global scale. While leveraging emerging deep tech, among disruptive startup, academic scientists, and global Fortune 500 companies seeking to shorten time to market or invest in transformative innovation that lead us to a better tomorrow funded by top venture investors.
🌱 SF Climate Tech Meetup
When: Thu, Jun 22nd at 5:30 PM to Fri, Jun 22nd at 8:00 PM
Where: Zeitgeist,199 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Hi everyone, 2023 has been a great year already for MCJ collective with many events and new members joining, let's get together for a pure networking event to celebrate the summer! Come meet up with the Bay Area MCJ members and the climatetech community.
💚 StorySlam Oakland presents Green
When: Sun, Jun 25th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: The Sound Room, 3022 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
A night of true, 5-minute stories featuring open-mic storytellers plus a special guest. For this show the stories will focus on a theme: Green. Green is a color but it conjures up so many other images: Green with envy; Green as the color of money; Green in nature. Turning green when ill. Beng naive. Being green from a climate perspective, or showing your Irish pride. So come on out and see what Green means.
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We know all of you are cooking up great events across that highlight the latest and greatest in our collective effort to save our city - and our planet! 🌍 We would love to spread the word. Please share any event details and we'll add them to the list!
A Global Network of Local Communities
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!
Climate Tech Cities x Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Networks
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. Streetlife Ventures, co-founded by Climate Tech Cities’ very own Sonam Velani, is excited to support these efforts across our community. We can’t wait to hear from you!