Seattle Climate Tech: Nov 17 - Nov 24
Mindful approaches to climate work, AI apps and datacenters, and legal guidance for founders.
Hi Climateers,
In need of mindful spaces to slow down and rejuvenate?
Curious about how to use AI to build climate apps?
In search of legal basics for your start-up or company?
You’re in luck—read below!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
~ Jason
Events This Week
🔌Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up: Mon, Nov 17
🧘♀️Mindfulness Week at 9Zero - Self-Compassion: Wed, Nov 19
🖥️AI People’s Forum: Data Centers, Water, and Energy - Who Controls the Commons?: Wed, Nov 19
⚡From Idea to Application: Building a Home Electrification Impact Tool with AI: Wed, Nov 19
⚖️Legal Foundations for Climate Tech Startups with Perkins Coie: Thur, Nov 20
🧘♂️Lunch and Learn - Meditation for climate and sustainability professionals: Thur, Nov 20
✒️Seattle Climate Writers Community: Thur, Nov 20
🍻Climatebase Community Meetup: Seattle & Online (Hybrid — all welcome!!) Happy Hour [Climatebase Fellowship]: Fri, Nov 21
Upcoming Events
🍆Plant-based Community Friendsgiving: Tues, Nov 25
⚡Climate risk, energy & data infrastructure: a Washington state perspective: Tue, Dec 2
🍸Speed Networking with Out in Climate Seattle: Wed, Dec 3
This Week in Depth
🔌Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up
When: Mon, Nov 17th, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
DER Cluster Meetup - November’s Event
30 minutes - Mingling
20 minutes - Presentation by Peter Gruenbaum on Software for Battery Management Systems. See his new Heatspring course.
15 minutes - Q&A with Peter
🧘♀️Mindfulness Week at 9Zero - Self-Compassion
When: Wed, Nov 19th, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
Grab your lunch and join me for an hour of mindfulness and connection. I’ll offer a guided discussion and meditation practice exploring how Self-Compassion is a leadership superpower that resources you to influence, love, and play with discernment and generosity. Working toward climate solutions is deeply meaningful work, and... it can be frustrating, exhausting, and heartbreaking. Mindfulness practices build our resilience and create the personal resourcing to innovate, lead, and give our best.
🖥️AI People’s Forum: Data Centers, Water, and Energy - Who Controls the Commons?
When: Wed, Nov 19th, 6:00pm
Where: Prospect UCC, 1919 E Prospect St UNIT 302, Seattle, WA 98112 US
Join us for a series of community discussions exploring the real-world power and politics behind artificial intelligence (AI) - from the data centers that drain our water and energy, to the algorithms transforming work, democracy, and daily life. This isn’t a tech talk; it’s a people’s conversation about who controls the future - and how we can fight for one that serves the public good. From labor rights to climate justice, we’ll unpack the material, political, and ecological stakes of AI — and build the understanding and solidarity we’ll need to push back.
As AI expands, data centers are multiplying across Washington — drawing enormous amounts of water and energy without public oversight. Who decides how these resources are used? Who benefits, and who bears the costs?
⚡From Idea to Application: Building a Home Electrification Impact Tool with AI
When: Wed, Nov 19th, 1:30pm-2:45pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
Join us for a 75-minute workshop demonstrating how AI coding assistant Claude Code can help anyone build real web applications—no prior coding experience necessary, although some familiarity is very helpful. We’ll create an interactive calculator using the Rewiring America API that helps homeowners visualize the benefits of home electrification.
Perfect for climate advocates, policy professionals, contractors, educators, and anyone curious about modern development tools for climate solutions
⚖️Legal Foundations for Climate Tech Startups with Perkins Coie
When: Thur, Nov 20th, 11:00am-12:00pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
Getting your legal house in order is critical to building a climate tech company that can scale, attract funding, and navigate risk. This workshop with experts from leading law firm, Perkins Coie, will walk founders through the legal fundamentals needed to move from MVP to market with confidence. Whether you’re preparing for your first pilot or your first term sheet, this session will help you understand what investors, partners, and regulators expect, and how to be ready.
🧘♂️Lunch and Learn - Meditation for climate and sustainability professionals
When: Thur, Nov 20th, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
As part of a lunch and learn, Elizabeth Willmott will offer a short, guided meditation practice, as a resource to develop creativity, adaptability, and resilience. She will draw on her own longtime meditation practice, including from Zhineng Qigong (Wisdom Healing Qigong - a Chinese movement meditation), other traditions, and her own on-the-job experiences as a climate professional. All are welcome, including total beginners and long-time practitioners. She will ask participants to share their own meditation experiences optionally, to explore the potential for developing an affinity group among climate and sustainability professionals interested in meditation, mindfulness, and consciousness.
✒️Seattle Climate Writers Community
When: Thur, Nov 20th, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
We’re excited to invite you to our next Climate Writers Community session!
What to Bring:
Preferred writing tools (notebook, pens, or laptop and charger)
Your own snacks and beverages
Agenda:
Welcome, intros from co-organizers and participants
Warm-up timed writing + brief reflection
Main timed writing session(s) + reflection
Wrap up
Our community provides dedicated time and space for writing with supportive peers. Whether you’re working on climate journalism, fiction, policy writing, or personal reflection, you belong here.
🍻Climatebase Community Meetup: Seattle & Online (Hybrid — all welcome!!) Happy Hour [Climatebase Fellowship]
When: Fri, Nov 21st, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
An informal mixer to connect with fellow Climatebase Cohort in person Seattle & Online (all welcome!!)! Let’s connect, share ideas, and build community as we are wrapping up Cohort 8 (Can’t believe it, right? Me, neither!).
Join the Fun!
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The blend of mindfulness sesions with technical workshops like the AI home electrification tool is realy smart. Climate work can be exhausting so having those rejuvination spaces alongside practical skill building creates a more sustainable ecosystem. The Perkins Coie legal workshop also seems like someting every founder needs early on.