Climatetech Advisors
I created the brand Climatetech Advisors in early 2020. I had been watching the climatetech space since intentionally trying to grow it with the Impossible Labs brand starting in 2016. I relocated from California to my home state of New York in 2019 to bring climatetech from the west to the east. I was energized in the months before COVID hit the USA to create a brand that would exist entirely to increase interest in and visibility of the field of climatetech, which I defined as “products and services that are climate solutions by design.”
The logo was designed with designer Jerone Hsu, and depicts a merge between a human technology, the wheelchair wheel, and a natural technology, coral. The coral was chosen for its role as an ecosystem engineer, reflecting the aspiration of the brand. In the words of advisor David Cagan, Climatetech Advisors represents a tree that others gather around for shade and for sustenance.
From 2020-2021, I worked with the following organizations, on an entirely pro-bono basis, and sent over 30 newsletters to 100 subscribers:
Scale for Climatetech Accelerator, NYC, as mentor for ElectroActive Technologies (food waste to hydrogen)
Bethesda Green Accelerator, Maryland, as mentor for Paradigm One (reusable take out food containers)
AirMiners, as community participant, and organizer for the first AirMiners conference in 2020 as well as the first award ceremony, the “Carby’s”
TUSHY (hellotushy.com) - advised on sustainability strategy and carbon offsets purchase
NYC Parks Department Sustainable Facilities Group, Emerging Tech Team - an internship for budding environmental workers in high school, college, and beyond
JestGreen, a future community kiosk start-up based out of Brooklyn NY
CyanSage, a compostable textiles start-up
East River Park ACTION, a citizen advocacy group resisting the destruction of a 50-acre park in Lower Manhattan for a bad flood control plan
