Seattle Climate Tech: Feb 12 - Feb 19
Farms and forests, nuclear waste, green building tours, coral reefs and kelp forests, and more this week!
Hi friends,
We have a fantastic lineup of events to choose from this week whether you want to join an event in person or online. Tour "the greenest office building in the world "at the 🏢 Bullitt Center Tour this afternoon in Capitol Hill, and on Wednesday join the CleanTech Alliance Lunch Series in downtown Seattle to learn about 🧑💻 Creating Successful CleanTech Internship Programs.
Thursday is jam packed with the all-day🧑🏫 Climate Justice League, Assemble (NW WA Cohort) event in Wallingford, the 🍎 Climate Change: The Impact of Washington Farms & Forests seminar hosted by Washington state climatologist Nick Bond in Mercer Island in the morning, this week’s Bevan Series event 🌊 The Moving Target of Ocean Recoveries in the Anthropocene in U District in the afternoon, and the virtual🥕 Lecture with the Beacon Food Forest in the evening. Join for the virtual⚛️ Nuclear Waste Scholar Series: On Telling Impossible Stories during Friday lunch to round out the week.
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Maya, Alec, and the Climate Tech Cities Team
🎤Community Shoutout: WAC Career Panel
The Seattle chapter of Women and Climate hosted a wonderful career panel event last week where attendees heard from panelists with backgrounds in education, the private sector, the public sector, and non-profits. The incredible panelists included: Xenia Dolovova (Director @ Furniture Repair Bank), Janique Francis (Senior Program Manager @ Amazon Air), Kate Kurtz (Organics & Landscape Resource Conservation Planner @ Seattle Public Utilities), and Heather Price, PhD (Chemistry Professor @ North Seattle College) 🙌
Events This Week
🏢 Bullitt Center Tours: Tues, Feb 13
🧑💻 Creating Successful CleanTech Internship Programs: Wed, Feb 14
🧑🏫 Climate Justice League, Assemble (NW WA Cohort): Thurs, Feb 15
🍎 Climate Change: The Impact of Washington Farms & Forests: Thurs, Feb 15
🌊 The Moving Target of Ocean Recoveries in the Anthropocene: Thurs, Feb 15
🥕 Lecture with the Beacon Food Forest: Thurs, Feb 15
⚛️ Nuclear Waste Scholar Series: On Telling Impossible Stories: Fri, Feb 16
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events
Upcoming Events
🦀 Aquaculture’s Role in Sustainable Diets: Wed, Feb 21
🍃 Ecosystem Restoration and Cultural Renewal in Elwha Valley: Thurs, Feb 22
🏗️ Tacoma-Pierce County Clean Buildings Symposium: Fri, Feb 23
👰 Seattle’s First Sustainable Wedding Show: Sun, Feb 25
🌲 February Meetup: Urban Forests - Effects of Urban Heat Islands: Tues, Feb 27
🌎 Green Hydrogen Summit North America: Wed, Feb 28 - Thurs, Feb 29
🌴 A Global Tropics Perspective on Making Ocean Science & Governance More Equitable and Effective: Thurs, Feb 29
🌱 Intro to Bioremediation: Sat, Mar 2
🧴 How to Choose Safer and Sustainable Products: Sun, Mar 3rd
👩🤝🧑 Sustainable Futures - Redefining Education, Workforce, and Communities: Fri, Mar 8
🤝 C4 Leadership Advance for Nonprofits, Ecosystem, and Social Impact Leaders: Thurs, Mar 14 to Mon, March 18
🏡 The Beauty of Sustainability in Public and Private Gardens: Sat, March 16
💧Critical Habitats for Climate Change - Riparian and Wetland Areas: Wed, Mar 20
🩺 Symposium on Climate Change and Clinical Practice: Thurs, Mar 28
Event Details
🏢 Bullitt Center Tours
When: Tues, Feb 13th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Where: Bullitt Center, 1501 East Madison St, Seattle, WA
The Bullitt Center, described by Architectural Digest as "the greenest office building in the world," offers public tours 2 days a week, most weeks. Tours will begin in the second floor lobby, and include the building's mechanical and electrical rooms, the grey water and rain water treatment systems, vacuum toilets and the "irresistible" stairway. Tours are facilitated by the University of Washington Center for Integrated Design.
🧑💻 Creating Successful CleanTech Internship Programs
When: Wed, Feb 14th from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Where: Perkins Coie Seattle Office, 1201 3rd Ave #4900, Seattle, WA
The CleanTech Alliance Lunch Series presents notable clean tech executive speakers for a monthly conversation followed by networking with cleantech industry leaders from across the region.
Today’s interns are tomorrow’s leaders. What strategies are our members using to design successful training programs for young professionals? How are they tackling key challenges, such as bridging generational divides and navigating the shifting demands of remote/hybrid work? We invite you to join this dynamic lunch conversation at the Perkins Coie office downtown Seattle with ample time to network. Our panelists will also explore topics, such as how they are attracting diverse talent, evolving their educational programming to address concerns like mental health, and changing how they present feedback.
🧑🏫 Climate Justice League, Assemble (NW WA Cohort)
When: Thurs, Feb 15th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Good Shepard Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA
Come continue your learning with EarthGen in this cohort-based learning opportunity designed for teachers across Washington State who have previously participated in the Climate Justice League (NW Cohort) and is open to new participants. This professional learning community will gather in person with optional opportunities to meet in communities of practice virtually through the remainder of the school year. Participating teachers will engage with resources, experts, and each other to deepen their understandings of how interconnected climate impacts, environmental harms, and social injustices affect the wellbeing of their community and the broader region. They will grow their commitment to centering the experiences, perspectives, knowledges, leadership, and thriving of global majority communities, including those who are Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority.
🍎 Climate Change: The Impact of Washington Farms & Forests
When: Thurs, Feb 15th from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Where: Aljoya Mercer Island, 2430 76th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA
Join us for an engaging exploration as we delve into how recent past variations and future predictions of the climate in our region are influencing various sectors. This educational seminar, hosted by Washington State Climatologist Nick Bond, will focus on the landscape, and in particular, agriculture and terrestrial ecosystems of Washington state.
🌊 The Moving Target of Ocean Recoveries in the Anthropocene
When: Thurs, Feb 15th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Where: FSH 102, University of Washington, Seattle
The Bevan Series is a popular annual event held one quarter each year, usually in the format of 10 weekly seminars. The series features internationally recognized experts seeking to examine current issues affecting fisheries and marine conservation, representing as many viewpoints as possible, focusing on solutions to pressing problems. All lectures are free and open to the public. This year’s theme is “What does success look like, and how do we get there?”
Join this Thursday to hear from Adrian Stier from University of California Santa Barbara on the moving target of ocean recoveries in the Anthropocene.
🥕 Lecture with the Beacon Food Forest
When: Thurs, Feb 15th from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Virtual, Zoom registration link here
Founded in 2009, the Beacon Food Forest operates a 3.5 acre food ecosystem on land owned by the Department of Public Utilities in Seattle’s Beacon Hill Neighborhood. Join us for a conversation with Khalil Griffith – Site and Programs Director – to learn more about the history of Beacon Food Forest, their current work, and the organization’s vision for expansion in the future. We will also discuss strategies for effectively co-managing land and programming across multiple groups and agencies. Beacon Food Forest is a fantastic example of utilizing urban green space for community-driven food sovereignty and climate justice work, and we hope you will join us for this conversation!
⚛️ Nuclear Waste Scholar Series: On Telling Impossible Stories
When: Fri, Feb 16th from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Where: Virtual, Zoom registration link here
Shannon Cram joins Hanford Challenge for the Nuclear Waste Scholar Series. In this talk, Shannon will discuss the complex and contingent practices of nuclear storytelling. Drawing from her recent book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, she will consider how narratives of atomic risk, reason, pollution, and protection have come to be, and ask how they could be otherwise. The Nuclear Waste Scholar Series is funded through a Public Participation Grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology.
🌎 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!
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Climate Tech Cities
We are expanding! We started as an 8-person dinner and now have over 4,000 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!