Seattle Climate Tech: July 8 - July 13

💧 stormwater workshops, 🎤 minute motifs, ⚡️ hour of action, and PNW Climate Week signups! 🌼

Hi friends,

There’s a great lineup of events this week to choose from. You could:

• learn 💧 how our water is being managed (Q&A w/ King County stormwater engineer with Soapbox Project this Tuesday evening.

• listen to fellow climate community members share the motif driving their climate connections in 60-second speeches at 🎤 Minute Motifs 2: Bonds & Bridges on Thursday.

• hear from Seattle District 2 City Council candidates at the 🎙️ D2 Seattle Council Candidate Climate Forum this Friday, topics will include the intersections of climate with transportation, housing, budgeting, and how the city should respond to the climate emergency.

• and more!

Lastly, 🌲 PNW Climate Week is kicking off next Wednesday! Events are filling up, so make sure to take a look at the calendar or preview the list of events below to reserve your spot!

As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.

Cheers,

~ Asha and the Climate Tech Cities Team

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PNW Climate Week is officially kicking off July 16th, with events across Portland, Seattle, and even Vancouver, BC! From expert panels to happy hours, there’s something for everyone. Check out 100+ events on the calendar (or the events preview below) for the current list. The majority of events are free, and are filling up fast, so RSVP soon to secure your spot. You don’t want to miss this lineup! 🎉

9Zero and University of Washington will act as central hubs from July 16 to July 18.

• Wed July 16 & Thu July 17, 9Zero will hold events focused on ♻️ circular economy, 🖋️ design and innovation,⚡️energy,👖 fashion, 🌱 nature-based solutions, and🧑‍💼workforce development.

• Fri July 18, the University of Washington will hold events focused on 💎 carbon, 🏛️ policy and💡startups.

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Events This Week

• 🖊️ The Customer Traction Lab for Cleantech Startups (online): Tue, July 8

• 🧭 New Tech Seattle: PNW Climate Week Spotlight: Tue, July 8

• 💧 how is our water being managed? (Q&A w/ King County stormwater engineer): Tue, July 8

• ⚡️ Seattle Hour of Action: Wed, July 9

• 🦋 Butterflies as Storytellers: Wed, July 9

• 🎤 Minute Motifs 2: Bonds & Bridges: July 10

• 🎙️ D2 Seattle Council Candidate Climate Forum: Fri, July 11

• 🌊 Impactathon for Kids: Exploring Stormwater Runoff (in Tacoma): Sat, July 12

Read on for more details about upcoming events and PNW Climate Week!

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Upcoming Events

• 🏙️ Sustainable Bellevue Plan Update Open House: Mon, July 14

• 📚 Bookclub: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Changing Coastline: Tue, July 15

• 💧 action party for water resilience (dinner provided): Tue, July 15

• 🌲 PNW Climate Week: Wed, July 16 - Fri, July 25

• 💻 Sustainovation Hackathon: Sat, July 26

• 📚 Will Potter presents LITTLE RED BARNS: Tue, July 29

• 👚 Summer at SAM Clothing Swap and Quilt-Making: Sun, Aug 3

• 🚲 Soapbox joins a food rescue ride: Sun, Aug 10

• 📚 Denali Sai Nalamalapu presents 'Holler': Wed, Aug 13

• 🌼 The Burien Solar Punk Festival: Sat, Aug 16

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PNW Climate Week Events

Tuesday, July 15th

• 🚜 UW Farm Volunteering: Tue, July 15

• 🔋 Electric Era EV Charging Demo + Driver Panel: Tue, July 15

Wednesday, July 16th

• 💲Becoming a Climate Angel with E8 Angels (online): Wed, July 16

• 🧩 Build Your Own Climate Future: The En-ROADS Climate Workshop: Wed, July 16

• ⚡️Planetary-Scale Data Institutions: Rethinking Environmental Data for Public Power: Wed, July 16

• 🏙️ Tour of Smith Tower LEED retrofit followed by panel of experts, both commercial and residential: Wed, July 16

• 🧩 How to Create your Career in Climate, Job Search and Entrepreneurship 101: Wed, July 16

• ⚡️Building Energy Resilience: The Future of Distributed Energy Resources in the Pacific Northwest: Wed, July 16

• 🚲 PNW Climate week - the bike tour: July 16-July 24

• 💧 Partnering Globally to Protect Rural Water Resources (online): Wed, July 16

• 🏛️ Influencing Planning (for Climate) in Seattle and Washington State: Wed, July 16

• 🖋️ Conducting Your First Life-Cycle Assessment: A Hands-On Workshop: Wed, July 16

• 🧪 From Lab to Market: Bridging Science and Climate Innovation: Wed, July 16

• 🧑‍💼 Green Jobs & Activation Fair!: Wed, July 16

• ⚡️ The Future of Nuclear Energy: Innovation and Opportunities in the Pacific Northwest: Wed, July 16

• 🔬 Driving Climate Action with Evidence-Based Solutions (online): Wed, July 16

• 🚗 Connecting the DOTs – Revisiting the Land Use and Transportation and Climate Connection: Wed, July 16

• ⚡️Fusion Revolution: The Pacific Northwest’s Role in a Future of Abundant Clean Energy: Wed, July 16

• 🖋️ Driving Sustainability Through Design: Expert Panel + Office Hours: Wed, July 16

• 👖 Be Aware What You Wear: Roundtable Panel Discussion: Wed, July 16

• 💡 Future of Climate Tech Investment Panel, w. SVB: Wed, July 16

• (NEW) 🚃 Intercity Passenger Rail as a Climate Solution: Wed, July 16

• ♻️ Workshop: Scaling Local Circular Procurement: Wed, July 16

• 👖 ReStitch & ReWear: A Mending Pop-Up & Wardrobe Refresh with Refugee Artisan Initiative: Wed, July 16

• 🎉 CleanTech Alliance Summer Block Party - Seattle: Wed, July 16

• 💲 How to Monetize Your Climate Startup: Wed, July 16

• 🎉 PNW Climate Week Kickoff Happy Hour, w. SVB: Wed, July 16

• 🌱 Biodiversity Futures: Can AI and Emerging Tech Help Protect Africa’s Ecosystems?: Wed, July 16

• 📣 Employee climate advocacy dinner: how to lead action in uncertain times: Wed, July 16

• (NEW) 🍹 9Zero Meet the Founders Happy Hour — Climate Week Edition: Wed, July 16

Thursday, July 17th

• 💲 The Climate Capital Gap: Angels, Philanthropy, & the Power of Early Funding: Thu, July 17

• ⚡️Spark Northwest: Building Blocks of Energy Justice Across the Pacific Northwest: Thu, July 17

• 💎 No Credit Goes Unturned? Tracking and Verifying Nature-based Carbon: Thu, July 17

• 🧑‍💼 Climate Career Pivots Panel with Terra.do (online): Thu, July 17

• ⚡️Unlocking Transmission Buildout in the Pacific Northwest: Thu, July 17

• ⚡️Economically Decarbonizing Data Center Energy: Achieving 80%+ Clean Power with Renewables and Storage: Thu, July 17

• 🌱 Smart Watering Practices with Tilth Alliance: Thu, July 17

• 📝 Lunch and Learn: How to Prepare for California's Climate Accountability Package: Thu, July 17

• 🔋 PNW Climate Week Site Visit: Washington Clean Energy Testbeds: Thu, July 17

• (NEW)✨ Climate Changemakers Hour of Action: Thu, July 17

• 🌱 Nature-based Climate Solutions in Seattle: Thu, July 17

• 🖋️ Sustainable Redesign Lab: Reimagining Products For A Sustainable Future: Thu, July 17

• ♻️ REimagining Seattle! Reuse and Repair Panel Discussion: Thu, July 17

• (NEW) 🤝 Finding Common Ground with a Conservative Environmentalist: Thu, July 17

• ⚡️ NextGen Geothermal in the PNW: Thu, July 17

• 📸 Planet Perspectives: A Storytelling Panel on Connection and Kinship: Thu, July 17

• 🌻 Turn Anxiety into Action: Cultures of Hope in a Changing Climate: Thu, July 17

• 🔋 Battery Happy Hour Hosted by Perkins Coie: Thu, July 17

• 🧑‍💼 Coalition for Climate Careers (C3) Reception: Thu, July 17

• 🎉 Climate & Cocktails: Thu, July 17

• 💡 Climate Tech *Startup Pitch Contest & Happy Hour* - hosted by E8 Angels & Gliding Ant Ventures: Thu, July 17

• 🤖 Leaders 2050 x PNWCW: Navigating the Impact of AI on Sustainability: Thu, July 17

• 🖋️ Sustainable Design + Innovation Idea Jam Mixer Mashup: Thu, July 17

• 👖 Conscious Fashion Show & Happy Hour: Thu, July 17

Friday, July 18th

• 🎤 Mainstage ~ Climate Leadership in the Current Moment: Fri, July 18

• 🌱 Support Tilth Alliance's Pollinator Hillside: Fri, July 18

• 🏙️ Cascadia College & UW Bothell Campus Sustainability Tour: Fri, July 18

• ⚡️ Tour the UW Power Plant! (Friday Tour): Fri, July 18

• 🌱 Restore & Connect with Heron's Nest + Duwamish Longhouse: Fri, July 18

• ♻️ PNW Climate Week Site Visit: Recology Material Recycling Facility: Fri, July 18

• 💎 Meeting the Moment - How businesses can use carbon credits to take action: Fri, July 18

• ✨ Marketing Climate Solutions: Magical Tips & Tactics: Fri, July 18

• 💡 StartUp Workshop: Non-Dilutive Funding: Fri, July 18

• 💎 The Future of Carbon Markets: PNW Leadership Amidst Global Efforts to Get to Scale: Fri, July 18

• 👖 Impactathon Mini + Clothing Swap | PNW Climate Week 2025 (in Tacoma): Fri, July 18

• 🌊 Where Sea Meets Sky: Frontier Innovation: Fri, July 18

• (NEW)💡 Pitch Smarter, Grow Faster, Build Together: Fri, July 18

• 💡 Board Governance Practices That Protect Your Founding Vision: Fri, July 18

• 🏛️ Leading Locally: learn how local governments are uniting to advance climate action, and how you can get involved: Fri, July 18

• 🌲 Greenhouse Gas Removal in the PNW: Reasons for Hope: Fri, July 18

• 🖋️ Design for Life: Activating Regeneration: Fri, July 18

• (NEW) 📝 Create Interactive Ways to Engage Your Community in Climate Policy: Fri, July 18

• ♻️ PNW Climate Week: Circular Economy Happy Hour: Fri, July 18

Saturday, July 19th

• 🐟 Volunteer to Restore Salmon Habitat with Whale Scout!: Sat, July 19

• 🌱 CPTC Flett Habitat Stewardship (in Tacoma): Sat, July 19

• 🥾 Seattle Hike & Network: Sat, July 19

• 🔨 PNW Climate Week Site Visit: The Furniture Repair Bank: Sat, July 19

• 🌱 Support Rainier Beach Wetlands: Sat, July 19

• 🌱 Beacon Food Forest Work Party: Sat, July 19

• 👟 South Tacoma Climate Walk (in Tacoma): Sat, July 19

• 🏛️ Legislative Advocacy 101: Sat, July 19

• 🎲 Save the World! Climate Board Gaming at Mox Boarding House (Ballard): Sat, July 19

Sunday, July 20th

• 🛶 Paddle & Protect the Duwamish River: Sun, July 20

• 📚 Book Club: Sun, July 20

Monday, July 21st

• (NEW) 📝 Storytelling and Design for Nature-based Solutions Workshop: Mon, July 21

Tuesday, July 22nd

• 🎤 Burning Questions Answered: Peeling Back the Curtain on All Sides of Climate Strategy: Tue, July 22

• (NEW) 🍽️ Harvesting Solutions: From Food Waste to Food Justice: Tue, July 22

• (NEW) 🧑‍💻 OpenEarth Hacks: Create data visualizations for environmental conservation: Tue, July 22

• (NEW) 🎨 The Future We Make: A Climate + Art Workshop: Tue, July 22

• 🎨 Climate Week art night & dinner party: Tue, July 22

• 🎉 Happy Hour with Seattle WAC Community: Tue, July 22

Wednesday, July 23rd

• 🧑‍💼 In-Climate: Software with Terra.do (online): Wed, July 23

• 👖 Sustainability is Haute Ikigai Experience Happy Hour: Wed, July 23

• 👖 ReThinking Fashion's Footprint: The Waste Shift: Wed, July 23

• ✨ Yoga & Mindfulness Happy Hour in the Park: Wed, July 23

• 🔧 Fix-It & Learn: Community Tech Repair Workshop: Wed, July 23

• 📚 Seattle Tool Library Book Club: Wed, July 23

Thursday, July 24th

• 🤖 The Missing Variable in AI & Climate: Enabled Emissions: Thu, July 24

• 🎲 Quiz for the Climate Trivia Night (in Tacoma): Thu, July 24

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