Quick takeaways from the Climate Tech Meetup - Seattle - 5/17/23

Particle Zoo.

That's what 10,000 scientists from the Large Hadron Collider called it.

Right after they smashed a bunch of atoms together at near light speed with a giant crazy 17 mile magnet.

What happens when you pack a room of Seattle climate tech professionals and watch them collide?

A few things I picked up:

1. Seattle is popping! We stand among the top 6 climate tech cities.
2. Roughly 60% of people are unfamiliar with Project Drawdown. Let's boost that.
3. Did you know that publicly traded companies are going to be required by the SEC to disclose what they are doing to stop polluting so we can meet the Paris Accord? Some already do, like Google, Amazon, Exxon, and others. But the filings are kind of weird and hard to read. So, a group of talented students from the UW Foster School of business ran some natural language processing and ranked them. We need more of that!
4. I asked a few job seekers "what are the top 10 climate tech companies that you want to work for? They weren't sure because there are a lot, and it's hard to know how good they are. It's also hard to know what solution to focus on.

My aim is to change that!

Cool things to check out:

• SeattleClimate.tech - they organized it.
• 360 Social Ventures - their mission is to support entrepreneurs who are traditionally not supported. (They call it equity these days).
• CleanTech Alliance - upcoming CleanTech Innovation Showcase on June 22, 2023 (next month!)
• The Environmental Innovation Challenge - UW Foster School of Business. Already happened this year, but they'll give your big idea a little money next time, and they always need new volunteer judges.
• The Clean Energy Institute - (another UW thing, they're everywhere!)
• NoWhere Foods serves tasty mocktails made from feel good ingredients.If you're obsessed with AI tools like everybody these days, you can find them all at Futurepedia.
• I'm told AIPRM will change your life by crafting the perfect ChatGPT prompt.

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