Seattle Climate Tech: July 8 - July 12

🌐 DER meet-up, 🥾 hike and network, and 🌲 PNW Climate Week!

Friends,

We have a handful of engaging events this week to get you energized for PNW Climate Week, which officially kicks off this coming Monday. Tonight, attend 🌐 Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up - Eric Moe, Djoule. On the weekend, get outside at the 🥾 PNW Climate Week Seattle Hike and Network or get crafty at 🪡 Thread Together Sewing Class.

Then use your remaining time to prepare for 🌲 PNW Climate Week! Check out the calendar here, and secure your spot at great events such as:

• 🎤 Superpollutant Action: The ‘Emergency Brake’ of Climate Change

• 🌊 Phytoplankton Climate Heroes

• ⚡️ Powering Affordability: Tackling Washington’s Rising Electricity Costs

• 🪨 Carbon Removal Day: Advancing Geologic Carbon Sequestration in the Pacific Northwest for Carbon Capture and Removal

• 🚎 King County Climate Action: Zero Emission Bus Base Tour

And much more!

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

Cheers,

~ Asha, and the Seattle Climate Tech Team

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Events This Week

• 🌐 Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up - Eric Moe, Djoule: Wed, Jul 8

• 🥾 PNW Climate Week Seattle Hike and Network: Sat, Jul 11

• 🪡 Thread Together Sewing Class: Sun, Jul 12

• 🤝 Climate Stakeholder Gathering: Networking Mixer: Sun, Jul 12 (virtual)

Upcoming Events

PNW Climate Week Greater Seattle Events

Monday, July 13th

• 💧 Water, Place, and Possibility: Watershed Leadership During Pacific Northwest Climate Week

• 💹 Becoming a Climate Angel with E8: (virtual)

• 🎊 PNW Climate Week Seattle: Opening Ceremony

• 🚜 Climate Week on the Farm: Regenerative Agriculture & Ecosystem Restoration in Practice

• 🗳️ Why the 2026 Midterms Are the Most Important Climate Action Opportunity of the Decade (virtual)

• 🧊 Sea Ice at the Center of Climate Change: (virtual)

• 💹 Future of Climate Tech Investment Panel, w. SVB & Climate Tech VCs

• 🍻 PNW Climate Week Kickoff Happy Hour, w. SVB & Climate Tech VCs

• 🏛️ Snohomish County — Moving From Climate Plans to Regional Action

• 🍺 Pints for the Planet: Climate and Water Trivia Night

• (NEW) 🎤 Passion to Practice: Women Scaling Climate Leadership

• (NEW) 🌊 Co-Developing Strategies to Protect Health While Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Duwamish Valley: Talk and Mixer

Tuesday, July 14th

• (NEW) 🌲 King County Climate Action: Biosolids Forestry Program

• 🚀 Climate Resilience Can’t Wait: Investing in our Future with E8

• 🖌️ Sunny Side Up: Designing Climate Tech MVPs with Purpose and Play (virtual)

• 📊 Beyond Reporting: Using Sustainability Data to Build Trust, Drive Decarbonization, and Win Business

• (NEW) 🧱 Decarbonizing the Seattle area Commercial Built Environment: From Regulatory Requirements to Climate Leadership

• (NEW)⚡️ From Megawatts to Gigawatts: Washington’s Clean Energy Progress and the Scale Shift Ahead

• 🎯 Survey Says... Sustainability with the Daikin Seattle Experience Center

• 🥾 Plant ID Walk

• 💹 Greening Your Finances (virtual)

• 💡 Powering Progress Summit

• 🤝 Radiant Energy: Climate Leadership & Community Across the PNW

• 🔋 Tour of Microsoft’s Battery Lab: PNW Battery Collaborative @ PNW Climate Week

• 🍎 Food Lifeline Sort & Pack Volunteer Event

• ✍️ Get Hands-On with Life-Cycle Assessments: From Environmental Hotspots to Business Opportunities

• (NEW) 🎤 Superpollutant Action: The ‘Emergency Brake’ of Climate Change

• 🏛️ From Climate Crisis to Climate Action: The Future of City Budgeting

• (NEW) ♻️ Intake to Impact: A Tour of Evergreen Goodwill’s Operation

• 💧 Green Stormwater Infrastructure CornerStone Tour

• ⚡️ The PNW Climate Stack

• ⚡️ Industrial Heat Without the Boiler

• 🍻 Nerdy Energy Bar Talk

• ♻️ Grand Opening of Reuse Commons Lake City

• 💧 Understanding climate impacts on PNW water

• 🤝 1% for the Planet Sessions: Seattle

• 🎬 Microplastics, health and fertility - Film Screening and Expert Panel

• 🗑️ Surfrider Foundation: Gas Works Park Clean Up Event

• (NEW) 🌳 Tall Tree Tour in Arboretum

Wednesday, July 15th

• 🌊 Oceans as Climate Heroes: mCDR Day

• ⚖️ ESG Hot Topics, Hard Questions, and the Lawyer’s Ethical Responsibilities

• 💹 Climate and Capital - What Actually Drives Capital Towards Climate Solutions?

• 🏘️ Arcologies: The Missing Piece in Every Climate Plan (virtual)

• (NEW) 🌊 Phytoplankton Climate Heroes

• (NEW) 🗣️ City of Seattle’s Regional Partners Forum

• 🤝 Founder Summit

• (NEW) 🌊 mCDR Day: Electrochemical systems for mCDR

• 📝 The Future of Climate Careers: Skills, Standards, and Professional Pathways + Happy Hour

• 💡Powering the Future: Capital, Infrastructure, and the New Energy Economy

• 🎊 PNW Climate Week: Building Performance & Benchmarking Trivia/ Happy Hour!

• 🔨 Furniture Repair Bank Tour & Volunteer Experience

• 🍻 Carbon Markets Happy Hour

• 💧 Building Community Water Resilience: Panel discussion and networking

• (NEW) 🤝 The Nature Long Table – with Funga and the Arbor Day Foundation

• 🍻 Happy Hour with Seattle Women and Climate Community

• 🌳 Trails and Tales: A Natural History of Pierce County Parks (virtual)

• 🎭 Climate Performance Art Variety Show

Thursday, July 16th

• 🪨 Carbon Removal Day - Cleaning Up Climate Pollution

• 💻 Ask a Chief Product Officer: Climate Tech Founder Office Hours (virtual)

• 🚎 Transportation Solutions in Washington - Now and in the Future

• 🌱 Restoration Volunteer Event

• 📝 Highest Impact, Least Waste I Kindworks Consulting, LLC

• 🔋 PNW Climate Week Site Visit: Washington Clean Energy Testbeds

• (NEW) 🎤 Q&A with Climate Pledge Arena - Success and Challenges of implementing Sustainability Initiatives and also its impact on the Community

• 🌳 Tall Tree Tour in the Arboretum

• (NEW) 📝 Leading Beyond Climate Anxiety and Grief: An Online Skills Workshop for the PNW (virtual)

• 🪵 Advancing Wood Procurement in the Public Sector

• ⚛️ Powering the PNW: Fission, Fusion, and the Future of Firm Clean Energy

• 💻 State of Climate Tech VC in the PNW 2026 Round Table - Live Podcast Recording

• (NEW) ⚡️ Gridlocked: Breaking Through Washington’s Clean Energy Bottlenecks

• 🌱 Conversations with Cyanotype: Reyn & Fire

• 🤖 AI, Robotics, and the Future of Sustainable Agriculture

• ⚡️ Energy Summit

• (NEW) ⚡️ Powering Affordability: Tackling Washington’s Rising Electricity Costs

• (NEW)💧 Resilient Communities, Smarter Water Systems & the Evolving Role of Technology

• (NEW) 🪨 Carbon Removal Day: Advancing Geologic Carbon Sequestration in the Pacific Northwest for Carbon Capture and Removal

• ⚡️Accelerating a Grid-Friendly Electric Era: how we usher in a cutting edge future without unnecessarily straining our grid infrastructure

• (NEW) 🐋 Gray Whale Strandings in the PNW: A Conversation with John Calambokidis (hosted by Surfrider Foundation)

• 🗣️ Changing the Conversation: An Introduction to Effective Climate Communication (virtual)

• 🗣️ Clean Energy - Shifting the Conversation

• 💼 Workplace of the Future: Sustainability, Talent, Corporate Culture and the New Employer Value Proposition

• 🏡 An Introduction to Rooted Northwest: Cohousing, Land & Climate Resilience (virtual)

• (NEW) 🎤 AI Data Centers, Energy, and Communities—Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

• (NEW) 🎊 CLF & LCL Carbon Trivia Mixer

• (NEW) 🍻 Seattle Green Drinks - PNW Climate Week Happy Hour

• 🩺 Climate Change and Healthcare: Is the industry meant to heal us hurting us?

• 🎥 Free Movie Screening of Earth’s Greatest Enemy

• 🍸 rooftop mixology mixer w/ climate friends (ft. Oatly)

• 🕹️ What’s Wrong with Avery? An Environmental Justice Game

Friday, July 17th

• 💻 Make a difference via Open Source projects for sustainability (virtual)

• (NEW) 🎤 PNW Climate Week Seattle: The Present and Future of WA State Climate Policy feat. Rep. Jayapal & Microsoft CSO Melanie Nakagawa

• 📚 Cross Context Collaborations for Climate Education

• (NEW) 🚎 King County Climate Action: Zero Emission Bus Base Tour

• 🗣️ Don’t Convince, Connect: Effective Climate Conversations Taster Session (virtual)

• 💹 Climate Conscious Wealth: How to Find an Advisor Who Gets It (virtual)

• 🌾 Farm to Clinic Tour: Where Sustainable Agriculture Meets Community Health

• 🏓 Net Zero, Full Send: Founder Pickleball Tournament

• 🎬 Roll Credits on Carbon

• (NEW) 🤝 Climate Young Professionals Walk & Talk

• 🎤 Climate Karaoke Presented by SNØCAP, Stifel Bank & Perkins Coie

Saturday, July 18th

• 🐳 Volunteer to Restore Salmon Habitat with Whale Scout!

• 🌱 Habitat Stewardship & Tour of Flett Outdoor Lab

• ☀️ All About Solar!

• 🏡 Rooted Northwest Open House: Tour the Land & Learn About Cohousing

Sunday, July 19th

• (NEW) 🪡 Thread Together Sewing Class

• 🛶 Paddle & Preserve the Duwamish River

• 🔥 Youth Wildfire Case Competition (virtual)

After Climate Week

• 🌳 Mindfulness Walk in Pioneer Park: Tue, Jul 21

• ⚡️ Energy Smart Eastside Heat Pump Workshop: Wed, Jul 22

• 🍎 The Future We Eat: Wed, Jul 22

• 🍻 Presidio Community Happy Hour at PNW Climate Week: Thu, Jul 23

Check out the full calendar for more events in Tacoma, Bellingham, Oregon, British Columbia and more!

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