Boston Climate Tech: Jan 30- Feb 13, 2023
MITEC Early bird tickets, Mini-Symposium on Environmental Justice & Energy Sustainability, Greentown Labs EnergyBar & more.
Hi all!
This is the Boston Climate Tech newsletter. This newsletter is a digest of community-submitted in-person climate tech events in the Greater Boston area coming up in the next two weeks or so.
Slow Fashion: Mending for Sustainability - MIT Events: 1/30 Mon
Environmental Sensing and Opportunistic Air Quality Monitoring: Coding Workshop - MIT Events: 1/31 Tue
Mini-Symposium on Environmental Justice & Energy Sustainability: 1/31 Tue
EnergyBar: Celebrating a Decade of Impact Tickets, Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite: 2/2 Thu
BlueSweel Demo Day - Cohort III : HOSTED BY SEAAHEAD AND THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM : 2/9 Thu
As always, for the full calendar, check out https://airtable.cool/shrfu1ovRrNCh7SGy . To submit events, use this form
Announcements
Finally two special announcements for this issue
1. Starting this issue we will doing a trial of linking to the weekly essays by our friends running the NY Climate tech/SF climate tech newsletters. Here's their essay this week on hitting a trillion dollars in global investment in energy transition
2. Special callout notice regarding the MIT Energy Conference (MITEC) happening April 11th and 12th. Since 2006 the MITEC has been a staple of the Boston cleantech/climatetech scene. Here’s a word from co-organizer Anne Liu:
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Early-bird tickets for The MIT Energy Conference 2023 are available! MIT Energy Conference annually gathers around 1,000 industry professionals, policy makers and scholars to discuss and challenge the status quo in the energy field. This year, we face a pressing global energy crisis, spurred by the economic rebound from the pandemic and the War in Ukraine. We will bring together experts across the three key fields of technology, finance, and global policy to discuss critical solutions that will shape the future of the energy landscape, particularly during this time of uncertainty and hardship. To learn more about the MIT Energy Conference and purchase tickets, please click here.
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Cheers,
Slow Fashion: Mending for Sustainability - MIT Events
🕑 Start time
1/30/2023 Mon 12:00 PM
🕓 End time
1/30/2023 Mon 12:00 PM
📍Location
MIT E19-202
📍Address
40 Ames StCambridge, MA 02142
📝 Notes
Fast fashion is one of the leading offenders of environmental pollution, human rights abuses, and overconsumption. Unlike many looming challenges, we as the consumers have the power to divest by choosing responsible clothing and making it last longer.
Join us for an empowering hour where we build not only your mending know-how, but also a common ground of sustainable fashion.
This event is open to the entire MIT community, but space is limited to 30 attendees. Lunch will be served (note dietary restrictions on the sign up form). Please register in advance and indicate any dietary needs by emailing [email protected].
🔗 Registration link
https://calendar.mit.edu/event/slow_fashion_mending_for_sustainability
Environmental Sensing and Opportunistic Air Quality Monitoring: Coding Workshop - MIT Events
🕑 Start time
1/31/2023 Tue 1:00 PM
🕓 End time
1/31/2023 Tue 4:00 PM
📍Location
MIT Building 9-217
📍Address
Samuel Tak, Lee building105 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02142
📝 Notes
In this workshop, participants will engage with, learn from, and understand patterns in environmental data, using the results and data from MIT’s City Scanner, a low-cost sensing platform that has been deployed in several cities including Cambridge and NYC. The activity centers around a workshop and coding activity focusing on providing an overview of environmental data collection and analysis, including plotting trends, detecting pollution hotspots, and producing air quality maps. The workshop will begin with a background lecture providing an overview of the science of environmental sensing, common measurement techniques, and key pollutants to track. Students will then begin to work on an interactive Python coding exercise. No previous knowledge is required, all are welcome
🔗 Registration link
Mini-Symposium on Environmental Justice & Energy Sustainability
🕑 Start time
1/31/2023 Tue 1:00 PM
🕓 End time
1/31/2023 Tue 4:00 PM
📍Location
Stata center Room 32-141
📍Address
32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
📝 Notes
Decarbonization in electricity generation is advancing at a rapid pace. However, there is a growing recognition that this rapid transition has wider consequences, motivating the need to consider existing and emerging challenges such as environmental justice, mining impacts, "Not In My Backyard" oppositions to siting of carbon-free energy facilities, and others. Clearly, a broader global perspective as well as social dimensions are essential to tackling climate change as well as to improving the equity of energy generation. Our goal is to increase the awareness about environmental justice issues among the MIT students/community and to seed research/development for tackling these issues.
This symposium is supported by the MIT Climate Nucleus’ new Independent Activities Program (IAP) 2023 funding opportunity, ‘The Imperative of Justice,’ which aims to support climate justice and just transition work across the Institute.
Haruko Wainwright, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Michael Howland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sili Deng, Department of Mechanical Engineering
David Hsu, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Anne White, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Speakers
Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning
MIT
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
U. Mass. Amherst
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy
University of Notre Dame
Director of Upward Bound Program
University of Alaska
🔗 Registration link
https://sites.google.com/mit.edu/symposium-ej-es/?pli=1
EnergyBar: Celebrating a Decade of Impact Tickets, Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite
🕑 Start time
2/2/2023 Thu 8:30 PM
🕓 End time
2/2/2023 Thu 10:30 PM
📍Location
Greentown Labs Somerville
📍Address
444 Somerville Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02143 United States
📝 Notes
EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' signature networking event devoted to connecting partners and investors to our community of climatetech entrepreneurs, so it's only right that we dedicate our first EnergyBar of 2023 to the incredible tenure of Greentown's first employee, Emily Reichert, as she steps down as CEO after ten years leading our organization.
Join us on Thursday, February 2 to celebrate a decade of impact together as a team, community, and ecosystem and cheers to all that the future holds for Greentown!
🔗 Registration link
BlueSweel Demo Day - Cohort III : HOSTED BY SEAAHEAD AND THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
🕑 Start time
2/9/2023 Thu 5:30 PM
🕓 End time
2/9/2023 Thu 9:00 PM
📍Location
Simons Theatre at New England Aquarium
📍Address
1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110
📝 Notes
SeaAhead and the New England Aquarium are proud to present BlueSwell's six graduating bluetech startups charting the course for ocean impact in their emerging industries.
Fathom - Berkeley Marine Robotics - Current Lab - Ocean Data Network - Radmantis - Aloft Systems
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
5:30PM – 9:00PM EST
SIMONS THEATRE AT NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
🔗 Registration link