Seattle Climate Tech: Nov 3 - Nov 10

Events for founders and funders, sales leaders in the climate space, CleanTech Alliance's innovations, and a deeper dive into solarpunk--there's good stuff this week!

Nov 03, 2025

Hi Climate Community,

If you’re looking to collaborate with other founders and funders, see cutting edge innovations here in the PNW, learn about the history of coal, or just get your hands dirty in compost, we’ve gotcha covered! 🌱💪

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

Cheers,

~ Jason

💡Founders & Funders Work Session: Tues, Nov 4
🏭Bob Wyss presents ‘Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal’: Tues, Nov 4
🖥️2025 CleanTech Innovation Showcase: Wed, Nov 5
📈Getting Out of the Sales Slump: a Go-To-Market Tea Party for Climatists: Wed, Nov 5
📖Investigating Solarpunk, Part 2: Definitions, Metrics, and Structures: Wed, Nov 5
🌱Volunteer to Compost with Restaurant 2 Garden: Sat, Nov 8

Upcoming Events

📖Jessica Hernandez presents ‘Growing Papaya Trees’: Tues, Nov 11
🔌Plugged In: DER people Meet-Up: Mon, Nov 17
🖥️AI People’s Forum: Data Centers, Water, and Energy - Who Controls the Commons?: 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

This Week in Depth

💡Founders & Funders Work Session

When: Tues, Nov 4th, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101

An interactive, high-energy working session designed to bring founders and funders together around the whiteboard to collaboratively explore opportunities, challenges, and potential pathways for growth.
Purpose
Create a shared space for founders to openly present their vision, traction, and key obstacles.
Enable funders to actively engage in problem-solving, offering strategic insight, industry perspective, and pattern recognition.
Align both sides on the biggest opportunities and the most pressing risks—beyond just the pitch deck.

🏭Bob Wyss presents ‘Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal’Seattle Climate Writers Community

When: Tues, Nov 4th, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Where: Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

Explore coal’s central role in American history, from the Industrial Revolution to the reign of coal tycoons to the climate crisis.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!

🖥️2025 CleanTech Innovation Showcase

When: Wed, Nov 5th, 8:00am-5:00pm
Where: Hyatt at Olive 8, Seattle, WA

This Event Will Include: Informative Keynote on Sector Trends, Presenting Companies with Emerging Technologies, Opportunity to Tour the Innovation Pavilion, Networking | Demonstrations | Exhibitor Booths
Stay tuned on key topics impacting the cleantech landscape today, including: Carbon Management, NW Innovation Clusters, Consortia, Tech Hubs & Engines, Regional Economic Development Priorities, Entrepreneur Resources, Policy Priorities

📈Getting Out of the Sales Slump: a Go-To-Market Tea Party for Climatists

When: Wed, Nov 5th, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101

So you’ve started your climate business, and you’ve got some interest, maybe even a few sales, but the momentum seems to have stopped. What do you do? A business that provides customer value and helps to save the planet feels like it should be a no-brainer!
You could just sell harder, make more calls, and send more emails, but to get to that next level of growth an order of magnitude higher, you need good strategic marketing. In an interactive roundtable discussion over tea and cake (I hate boring PowerPoint presentations), I will walk you through how to strategically think through creating a marketing campaign.

📖Investigating Solarpunk, Part 2: Definitions, Metrics, and Structures

When: Wed, Nov 5th, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101

Following up from our first event, let’s take the next step, zeroing in more on what solarpunk is, especially compared to other movements like ‘bright green environmentalism’ or ‘ecomodernism’.
We will brainstorm what the ‘goal’ is or what good ‘metrics’ might be to achieve those goals. Finally, we will look at the different levers to change systems to achieve those goals as a way to inform how existing goals are embedded in our current system.

🌱Volunteer to Compost with Restaurant 2 Garden

When: Sat, Nov 8th, 10:30am-1:00pm
Where: Danny Woo Community Garden, 620 South Main Street, Seattle, WA 98104

Join Restaurant 2 Garden on Saturdays to compost restaurant food scraps into nutritious compost for elders of the Danny Woo Community Garden. Help and get to know our hyperlocal composting operation. We collect food scraps from restaurants in our neighborhood and process it into nutritious compost for gardeners at the Danny Woo Community Garden. With a few processing methods to create our compost, there will always be something to do, and we love sharing about how we do it!

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