SF Climate Tech: June 3 - June 10
Carbon newbies, Blue Tech, Product Design for a Circular Economy, Renewable Energy, Supply Chains, and more events this week!
Hi friends,
We’re back! Here are our picks for the week:
Start off the week on Tuesday with Women and Climate in SF for their 🌱 Carbon Newbie Summit Watch Party
On Wednesday visit South Beach Cafe for the ⛵️ SF Blue Tech Happy Hour to chat all things ocean, water, and more.
Also on Wednesday, check out ♻️ Product Design For A Circular Economy: A Practical Guide, part of SF Design Week (more select events below).
Head to Oakland on Thursday to talk renewable energy at ☀️ Harnessing the Sun: Integrating Solar in Sustainable Building Retrofits.
Or get your energy fix in Palo Alto instead at the ⚡️ Nordic Innovation House + YPE Happy Hour, also on Thursday.
Finally, also on Thursday, check out the ⛓️ re:Supply - Supply Chain Startup Showcase with Schematic Ventures in SF.
As always, scroll down for more details on this week and the full list of upcoming events. There’s a lot on the horizon!
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and the Climate Tech Cities team
This Week’s Events
🌱 Carbon Newbie Summit Watch Party: Tue, Jun 4
⛵️ SF Blue Tech Happy Hour: Wed, Jun 5
🌉 How Resilient is San Francisco?: Wed, Jun 5
🏆 12th Annual UCSF Sustainability Awards: Thu, Jun 6
☀️ Harnessing the Sun: Integrating Solar in Sustainable Building Retrofits: Thu, Jun 6
🌎 THE CLIMATE RESTORERS: Thu, Jun 6
⚡️ Nordic Innovation House + YPE Happy Hour: Thu, Jun 6
⛓️ re:Supply - Supply Chain Startup Showcase: Thu, Jun 6
🤝 Designing Together: Empowering Sustainability through Collaboration: Thu, Jun 6
✍️ Becoming A Climate Designer for a Regenerative Future: A Guided Networking Experience: Fri, Jun 7
🌁 Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech: Sat, Jun 8
Special Shoutout: 🌲 Bloomberg Green Festival
Looking for a summer trip? Head to Seattle and pair it with PNW Climate Week!
The world needs radical solutions to address global warming and climate change. Join us in Seattle July 10-13 for the inaugural Bloomberg Green Festival, a groundbreaking celebration of thinkers, doers and innovators leading the way into a new climate era. The festival will immerse attendees in solutions-driven experiences with world-renowned experts to inspire climate action. Get your tickets today.
🌎 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!
Upcoming Events
💰 Sustainability Investing and Happy Hour: Tue, Jun 11
🇩🇪 California German Bioenergy Conference: Tue, Jun 11
🇨🇭 Re-Focus: Circular Design Showcase at Swissnex: Tue, Jun 11
⚡️ The Energy Innovation Summit: Wed, Jun 12
🧬 BioTech Funder & Founder Connect: AI in Life Science: Wed, Jun 12
🍻 CLF SF Bay Area Happy Hour: Thu, Jun 13
🔮 ECOFUTURES FESTIVAL: Sat, Jun 15
🌅 Imagining Climate Futures in Golden Gate Park: Sat, Jun 15
☕️ Climate Café: Sun, Jun 16
💧 Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture: Linking Science & Policy: Mon, Jun 17
🏙️ USGBC California Town Hall Meeting - San Francisco: Tue, Jun 18
🪡 Bay Area Remake Monthly Meetup: Wed, Jun 19
🎶 EcoEcho: Concert #1 Performance of Climate: Thu, Jun 20
🌿 SVLG Sustainable Growth Summit: Fri, Jun 21
🎬 There Is A Place On Earth - Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Reception: Sat, Jun 22
🎉 Deep Tech Week Kickoff Party: Sun, Jun 23
🌱 CLIMATE HEROES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MATT SCOTT: Tue, Jun 25
🔌 Lowercarbon Capital: Energy and Climate: Wed, Jun 26
⚛️ Fusion Energy Landscape: Wed, Jun 26
🍺 7th Peninsula Climate Happy Hour: Thu, Jun 27
🚀 Deep Tech Storytelling Workshop: Thu, Jun 27
🌳 Boom in the Forest: Thu, Jun 27
🤯 Life, the Universe, and Everything: Fri, Jun 28
🤖 Deep Tech Showcase: Sat, Jun 29
🎨 Regeneration, Art, and Architecture, co-presented by Art + Climate Action: Sat, 13
🍽️ GP Dinner #179 | Circular Economies w/Manuel Maqueda: Sat, 27
This Week in Depth
🌱 Carbon Newbie Summit Watch Party
When: Tuesday, June 4 · 5:30 - 9pm PDT
Where: The Beacon, 250-260 King Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Join Women And Climate SF for our Carbon Newbie Summit Watch Party! If you missed attending the Carbon Newbie Summit (CNS) during SF Climate Week, here’s your second chance! Our gatherings are a fun way to make new friends and chat about climate.
🥕 Climate Carrot or Sustainability Stick? SFSU Explores Strategies for Shifting to Sustainable Design Practices
When: June 4 from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Where: FourOneNine, 41910th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
In this conversation, SFSU Professor Fernando Carvalho and students Cole Galvin and Maria Nguyen discuss persuasive design strategies for creators, product designers, and architects—like developing products from biomaterials or offering a resource such as the SFSU Materials Learning Library, as well as a current effort underway to compel education on sustainable building materials for all new building construction in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco and the City of San Francisco. In this conversation we will discuss strategies of both persuasion and regulation in hopes of compelling the creative community to make the critical shift to more sustainable design products and practices.
⛵️ SF Blue Tech Happy Hour
When: Wednesday, June 5 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM
Where: South Beach Cafe, San Francisco
Open networking for the entire evening. Bring a name tag and load up your LinkedIn QR code. This mixer is for employees, founders, students, educators, non-profits within the blue economy. Lighting round intros will happen at approximately 6pm.
🌉 How Resilient is San Francisco?
When: Wednesday, June 5 · 6:30 - 7:30pm PDT
Where: Manny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
With climate change increasing the rate and intensity of natural disasters across the globe, many of us might wonder: how ready is San Francicsco for the next disaster? From sky-rocketing insurance hikes in the face of increased wildfires, the always looming "Big One" that one day will shake our city...it's easy to get a little spooked and have some questions! But luckily, there is a somebody in our city who's entire job it is to think about this day and night so that YOU don't have to! Brian Strong is SF's Chief Resilience Officer and Director of the Office of Resilience and Capital Planning. In laypeople's terms, Brian makes sure our infrastructure is safe, secure, and well-prepared.
♻️ Product Design For A Circular Economy: A Practical Guide w/ Tact Product Dev, Whipsaw, Informal, Google, Logitech and more
When: June 5 from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Informal, 55 Grace Street, San Francisco, CA
Arguably, the most pressing issue our planet will face in the next 100 years is to address the massive human-created impacts from the last 100. Product designers have a lot to answer for. With so much information and opinion about “sustainability” and the “circular economy” how can a product designer cut through the chatter and the greenwashing to make informed, impactful design decisions in their daily practice?
🏆 12th Annual UCSF Sustainability Awards
When: Thursday, June 6 · 3:30 - 5pm PDT
Where: Genentech Hall, 600 16th Street. San Francisco, CA 94158
The UCSF Sustainability Award recognizes Campus staff, Health staff, students, faculty, and teams for their role in the progress being made towards UCSF sustainability goals. “As UC research reveals, the impact of climate change on local and global health has become increasingly obvious,” said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, at the 8th Annual UCSF Sustainability Awards Ceremony.
☀️ Harnessing the Sun: Integrating Solar in Sustainable Building Retrofits
When: Thursday, June 6 · 5:30 - 8pm PDT
Where: BIG Oakland, 1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612
Retrofitting existing buildings with solar energy systems is an important strategy for sustainable urban landscapes. However, the integration of solar is just one piece of the puzzle in the complex world of efficient and cost-effective electrification. Join us for an illuminating discussion that explores how solar power fits into the bigger picture to create holistic, high-performance, and equitable building retrofits.
🌎 THE CLIMATE RESTORERS
When: Thursday, June 6 · 6 - 8pm PDT
Where: Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
If you are concerned about the climate and want to know where we really are, and what the pathways may be to avert catastrophe, join us for a special screening of ‘The Climate Restorers’ – a film about the new evolving science of climate restoration, the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to return the climate to one in which all life can thrive. Hosted by David Gottfried, founder of the US and World Green Building Councils, and known as the godfather of the green building movement, the film focuses on the built environment and how we can turn some of the biggest problems into some of the biggest solutions.
⚡️ Nordic Innovation House + YPE Happy Hour
When: Thursday, June 6 · 5 - 8pm PDT
Where: Nordic Innovation House, 470 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
YPE is excited to partner with the Nordic Innovation House to bring our first event of the year in the South Bay. Please join us on June 6th in Palo Alto for an evening of networking and socializing in the heart of Silicon Valley. In the Bay Area, collaboration on new clean technologies, sustainable practices, and other climate solutions is a key focus for many of the Innovation House’s members. Please come and make new international and local connections at this unique venue!
⛓️ re:Supply - Supply Chain Startup Showcase
When: Thursday, June 6 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Where: Schematic Ventures, San Francisco, CA
Schematic Ventures is looking forward to hosting a supply chain startup showcase! Leading supply chain startups will present their companies and share more about their journey building in the space, followed by a happy hour and networking opportunities.
🤝 Designing Together: Empowering Sustainability through Collaboration
When: June 6 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: HGA, 222 Sutter Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA
Our special exhibit will serve as a dynamic showcase of collaboration between architect HGA, fabricator One Hat One Hand, and The Good Plastic Company (manufacturer of Polygood®, a versatile, high-end surface material made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic). Together, we embark on a journey to produce a collection of furniture pieces that not only demonstrate the creative potential of recycled plastic materials but also underscore the importance of collective action in tackling climate change. We invite attendees to join us in embracing the power of collaboration and innovation in driving positive change. Together, let’s inspire a collective commitment to sustainability and create a better future for our planet.
✍️ Becoming A Climate Designer for a Regenerative Future: A Guided Networking Experience
When: June 7 from 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Arcana, 2512 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Join us for a guided networking event bringing designers interested in asking and living with the big gnarly questions at the intersection of design and climate. Our co-facilitators, Marc O’Brien of Climate Designers and Michelle Lee of Studio Rhye, will provide prompts during the event to spark conversations on topics such as: designing for a flourishing world, regenerative design, shifting paradigms and mindsets. Imagine connecting with other values-aligned designers in a structured way that cuts out the awkwardness and small talk of typical events. Imagine thought-provoking prompts to examine how you think, feel, and act on climate resilience. Imagine clarity on how to channel your desires to contribute to climate change.
🌁 Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech
When: Saturday, June 8 from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Where: Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
What would it look like if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind? This event presents projects that are doing just that—building values like transparency, collective decision-making, and accessibility for all into their designs. Learn about ambitious, Bay Area-based projects that enable ordinary users to co-govern their online lives.