Climate Salon

The last two weeks have been a BLAST 🤩 Thanks to all who joined us in New York and Boston for some incredible Salons! We'll be recapping all that we learned in our upcoming newsletters, but some reflections: ⚒️ Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate pilots: It's all about scaling faster, and startups (+ their investors) are ready to make this happen. But it's still hard to find those innovative partners to get the work done -- shoutout to New York City Economic Development Corporation, Trust for Governors Island, Suffolk Construction, Bouygues Construction and other partners stepping up to answer the call alongside capital providers like Fontinalis Partners, Streetlife Ventures 🏛️ Local & state government agencies and quasi-agencies want to get creative with their support: there's a recognition that these organizations can -- and want to -- do more to support the ecosystem beyond fiscal sponsorship. How can state and local government be an enabling partner? Thanks to Jared Staley, Grace F., and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for listening! 😀 We're nothing without a strong workforce: and currently, it's hard to match the right talent, with the right jobs, and help them grow their careers in climate. Organizations like Browning the Green Space, Greentown Labs, College to Climate, Young Professionals in Energy, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship play a critical role in creating spaces and opportunities for career-building. How can we connect the community? More to come from us on this one 👀 Building hardtech companies takes time and lots of partnerships: it's why Climate Salon exists, and why we want to thank founders like the folks at florrent, Helix Earth, Sublime Systems, Atalanta Climate for joining us. These events were massive -- hundreds of folks showed up to join the conversation. We have more in store this fall; stay tuned!

Happening this week in Boston: Energy Innovation on Main Street Whether you're on a college campus, founding a startup, or leading corporate innovation, Energy Innovation on Main Street seeks to highlight the movers and shakers who act locally and see their communities as a testbed for climate impact. What solutions are working, who is working on them, and how do you get involved? At this Wednesday's Salon, we'll discuss: 💡 Innovation on college campuses with Casey Goldstein of College to Climate and Megan Lim of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 🏛️ The role of government support with Jared Staley of the City of Cambridge and Grace F. of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) 😀 Workforce development & enabling organizations with Francesca Reznik of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Kerry Bowie of Browning the Green Space ⚒️ Pilots in your neighborhood with Amy Dai of Fontinalis Partners and Joe Hastry, MSA CPA of florrent Join us! https://luma.com/8s1o01so

Not at Climate Week in NYC? Not to worry: Climate Salon is coming for you, Boston! On October 1, in partnership with College to Climate and Young Professionals in Energy Boston (YPE Boston) and sponsored by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, we're hosting our next event at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship! ⚡ Energy Innovation on Main Street: Climate Innovation in Our Communities ⚡ Whether you're on a college campus, founding a startup, or leading corporate innovation, this Salon seeks to highlight the movers and shakers who act locally and see their communities as a testbed for climate impact. What solutions are working, who is working on them, and how do you get involved? ⬇️ Join the conversation ⬇️ https://luma.com/8s1o01so

Made it to Climate Week in NYC - can’t wait to host this epic Climate Salon tomorrow morning alongside so many amazing leaders! I guess y’all want to talk about urban innovation in climate as much as I do because we are more than 4x our attendee expectations 🤯 Thanks to Suffolk Technologies and Morrison Foerster for making it possible! Georgina Campbell Flatter Alexandra Kokot Jonson Berman Steven Burke Sally Chen Lauren Wang Sonam Velani Frank Paz Gustavo B. Rawand Rasheed, PhD Becky Gallagher https://luma.com/1q5wx22r

Thrilled to be named a finalist!

Climate Week is under a month away -- and we'll be there! "Urban Playground: Climate Innovation in Our Cities" Join Climate Salon, co-hosts Suffolk Construction and Morrison Foerster to talk about the world's best climate labs: our cities. We're exploring how to turn urban cores into climate adaptation hotspots (or cool spots?). What does it take to make innovation easier for the startups, communities, investors and corporations that want to make a difference in the cities where we live and work? Come join the discussion over breakfast in NYC: Sonam Velani of Streetlife Ventures Alexandra Kokot of New York City Economic Development Corporation Frank Paz of Morrison Foerster Jonson Berman of Suffolk Technologies Lauren Wang of Trust for Governors Island Becky Gallagher of Sublime Systems Georgina Campbell Flatter of Greentown Labs Steven Burke Suffolk Construction Rawand Rasheed, PhD of Helix Earth Sally Chen of Atalanta Climate https://luma.com/1q5wx22r

Climate Salon is growing up 🐣 It brings us such joy to announce our inaugural board! 🎉 Each of these leaders has believed in and supported Climate Salon from the beginning. They care about what we're building: a community focused on discussing-- and acting on -- climate solutions. They also recognize that the fastest way to make a change is by bringing diverse stakeholder groups together to do it. Over the next few months, we'll work together to grow Climate Salon's programming, volunteer opportunities, and community giving. More to come! In the meantime, please join us in celebrating with a comment / reaction below 👏 Ben Soltoff Serena D. Francesca Reznik Britt Gardner

Proud of Climate Salon for being recognized as a nominee for this year's ACT Green Future Gala Awards! While we would be honored to have your support, there are so many amazing organizations on this list -- please cast your vote! 🎉

If you give a group of leaders lunch, 45 minutes, and a mandate to come up with a 90 day plan -- it can be done! What a brain trust on display at ClimaTech Live for our latest Climate Salon: Ideas to Action ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ Here's where we landed: 👏 Allium Engineering led by Steven Jepeal found leads on projects in Massachusetts. Turns out, it helps when you put organizations that fund community resilience projects + town sustainability committee members + engineers + consultants all together at once! 👏 francesca dominici found support to build out a sustainable AI tool that helps community members understand the impact of data center load growth. If you're working on related technology, have a knack for storytelling, like to brainstorm about impact metrics, or know how to reach key stakeholders like utilities or commissioners -- get in touch! 👏 Chiderah Okoye and Transform Power Systems' game-changing efforts to bring climate jobs to career switchers starts with visibility. Over the next 90 days, look out for updates on where to find jobseekers (if you're an employer) and who has the jobs (if you're looking)! This is just the beginning. Join the listserv and follow us on LinkedIn for more ways to volunteer in support of these goals over the next few months! If time is a constraint, donations work, too :) https://lnkd.in/ewx8drHF Thank you to Maya Peleg (Nitzberg) ClimaTech Live for giving Climate Salon this space, H.G. Chissell and Advanced Energy Group for brainstorming how to bring this concept to life, and our conversation facilitators Brendan Place of Climeaction, Moneer Azzam of Beacon Climate Innovations.