Clean Energy Calendar

Enjoy an Autumn day in the Catskills telling your climate story with founders, investors, and the people building the ecosystem.

​The Hudson Valley has quietly become one of the hottest spots in the country for climate and regenerative innovation with a dense, fast-growing community of founders and investors. This is your chance to be part of it.

​There are no badges. This isn’t a convention. It’s an experience curated conversations, site visits, and time in the places where the work is actually happening.

Founders and fund managers are invited to tell their unique raison d’etre (And have that captured by a film crew). Space is limited, so registrations will be reviewed to keep the mix right.

​$10 Ticket includes:

– Networking on the “”leaf peeping”” train ride through the Catskill Mountains

– Private tour of the Ashokan Reservoir with an expert talk on how climate change is altering the operation of the largest water system in America

– Curated networking reception with key founders and funders

Request an invitation

In collaboration with Hudson Valley Venture Hub, NY Ventures, Soundboard Ventures Fund (SBVF), Solveera Ventures, and Djola Ventures.

The Red Hook Conservation Advisory Council is hosting a nature walk. Join them and learn about Red Hook’s Natural Resource Inventory (NRI) project! This free event includes a short presentation about the NRI with Hudsonia & refreshments! Nature Photo class – 1pm – They’ll be showing people how to shoot nature and also upload photos to their NRI photos site. Nature photography – Learn tips and techniques in this workshop with Pieter Estersohn for taking great photographs of the natural world around Red Hook.

Natural history walk -1pm: Land use history – Explore the natural and land-use history of Montgomery Place in this walk with Henry Woods and learn what makes this landscape special.

Presentation on the NRI project from Hudsonia – 2 pm

Register here (registration not required)

• Stay up-to-date about Red Hook’s NRI here
• Have a photo you love? Share it with them

Help them collect data on flora and fauna in Red Hook! When walking in Red Hook over the next year, connect to the “Red Hook NRI Project” project in iNaturalist to have your captures included in our NRI data set!

Photos taken here or in Red Hook may be selected for potential publication in the NRI.

Questions about the NRI? Contact Bill Allen: livingrm@gmail.com

📣The 4TH ANNUAL GREEN JOBS PAVILION is coming back to NYC this SEPTEMBER 21-23 at @projectfarmhouse.nyc
& Green Jobs Board want to see you there! 🤓☁️🤞🏾🌎

This is Green Jobs Board flagship summit, connecting job seekers with employers actively hiring, recruiting, and wanting to connect with diverse, passionate talent!

This year – Green Jobs Board will have career coaching, panels, workshops, & an AFTERPARTY in partnership with @weareallearthgang and @eartherainstitute

Some of Green Jobs Board already confirmed partners / participating employers: @kineticcommunities @weareallearthgang @billionoyster @seel_llc @seedingsovereignty @greenmtnpower @bardgps @uscleanpower @mebltransformingfurniture @earthguardians @rooseveltinitiative @bklynnavyyard & MORE to come! 🙂

What is the true cost of hyper-scale AI to Our Climate, Our Communities, and Our Democracy?

Join MediaJustice, The Solutions Project, and the Tishman Environment & Design Center at The New School on Monday, September 21, 6–8 PM ET for a critical conversation about the rapid expansion of AI and the impacts it is already having on our communities.

They’ll bring together community leaders, climate advocates, and tech critics to ask:
→ How can philanthropy and investors support offensive organizing to disrupt “tech determinism” and advance more vibrant and sustainable futures?
→ What strategies can help communities in New York, Alabama, Michigan, and across the country remain in the decision-making seat as they confront the false promise of unchecked AI development at all costs?
→ As Big Tech rapidly expands generative AI, what impact is it having on social infrastructure, the working class, our climate, and the survival of democracy?

Featuring Paris Marx, host of Tech Won’t Save Us and author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires, alongside Andrea Pierce (Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition), Jilisa Milton (GASP), Ryan Madden (NY Renews), Steven Renderos (MediaJustice), and Clare Winterton (The Solutions Project).

Event Details:
🗓️ September 21, 2026, 6:00-8:00 PM ET
📍 Theresa Lang Community & Student Center, Arnhold Hall, Room L202, 55 West 13th St.
🔗Registration is required:
https://event.newschool.edu/costofai

Join the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative and Mid-Hudson Energy Transition at New York City Climate Week on Tuesday, September 22 from 11:45-2:30 at the Cornell Club (6 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017) for an interactive workshop exploring how communities and organizations can build more resilient, equitable futures by addressing multiple challenges at once. Through a facilitated World Café process, Dartmouth insight briefings, peer learning, and hands-on activities, participants will apply systems thinking, multi solving, and a justice lens to identify opportunities, overcome barriers, and develop practical strategies for advancing climate resilience, energy affordability, public health, economic vitality, and community well-being.

🔹 Resilience Action Lab: Building an Integrated Just Transition for Our Communities
Mid-Hudson’s Energy Transition Fund Director, Rosalie Fransen, will be facilitating a discussion table at this interactive workshop bringing together municipal leaders, nonprofits, businesses, and practitioners.

Come spend the afternoon with them! 🌎

Why are energy bills so high? Who makes decisions about our energy system? And what can we do about it?

Join New York State Energy Democracy Alliance (NYEDA) during NYC Climate Week for a Climate Week Social Reception followed by Power to the People, an interactive Energy 101 workshop designed to help everyday New Yorkers better understand our energy system, why it matters, and how we can build a cleaner, more affordable, and more democratic energy future together.

Through storytelling, hands-on activities, discussion, and real-world examples, participants will explore why so many communities struggle with rising utility costs, who holds power in New York’s energy system, and what it will take to create an energy system that works for people and not for-profit utilities. Whether you’re brand new to energy issues or already organizing in your community, this workshop is designed to meet people where they are and move us from confusion and frustration toward collective action and hope.

This event is hosted by New York State Energy Democracy Alliance (NYEDA), a statewide coalition working to build an energy system that is clean, affordable, publicly accountable, and controlled by the people, not for-profit utilities. This workshop will provide the knowledge, tools, and connections needed to take action for a just, fossil fuel-free New York.

During this interactive workshop, you’ll learn:

• ⚡ Who makes decisions about New York’s energy system and who should.
• 💸 How utilities set your rates and why energy bills continue to rise.
• 🌱 The clean, reliable alternatives to fossil fuels that are already transforming communities across New York.
• 📈 Why utility rate hikes happen and how everyday New Yorkers can influence the decisions that affect their bills.
• ✊ What energy democracy means and why public participation is essential to creating an equitable energy system.
• 🗽 How you can get involved in the movement for a clean, affordable, publicly accountable, fossil fuel-free New York.

You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how our energy system works, practical strategies to help reduce energy burdens, and opportunities to organize alongside others working to build healthier, more resilient communities.

This Climate Week in New York City, your invited to an inspiring and solutions-oriented WECAN event, “Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout.”  for Amidst a growing polycrisis of geopolitical tensions and climate disasters, women leaders in all of their diversity are speaking out.

​During this event, frontline women in all of their diversity, Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and climate justice advocates will come together to explore the bold actions and solutions needed to accelerate a Just Transition and an equitable phaseout of fossil fuels. Through gender-responsive climate policy dialogue, frontline experiences, and community-led solutions, speakers will examine how to translate climate commitments into meaningful implementation while raising ambition to meet the urgency of the climate crisis on the path to COP31 and beyond.

​Discussions will highlight women’s leadership in advancing renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels, protecting and regenerating ecosystems, advocating for Rights of Nature, resourcing Indigenous-led stewardship models, dismantling false solutions, strengthening care economies, and building equitable, regenerative solutions that leave no one behind. We will also delve into what is ahead for feminist climate advocacy and goals at COP31.

​Speakers to date include:

• ​Ambassador Ilana Seid, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations, Republic of Palau

• ​Bridget Burns, Director of Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Turtle Island/USA

• ​Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/United States

• ​Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), President of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Founder of The Woven Project, Turtle Island/Canada

• ​Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, Turtle Island/USA

• ​Larissa Baldwin-Roberts (Widjabul Wiabal/Bundjalung), Co-Chair of the Indigenous People Caucus for COP31 & COP32, Co-founder and CEO of Common Threads Indigenous Peoples Organization, Australia

• ​Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador, Spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazonicas, Ecuador

• ​Sharon Lewis, Executive Director, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), Turtle Island/USA

• ​Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, Canada

• ​With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA

​More speakers to be announced!

​This is an in-person event in New York City.

​Registration is required, and seats are first come, first serve. Doors will open at 4:30 PM for early arrival.

​Learn more about WECAN’s advocacy at New York Climate Week.

​The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based, multi-faceted organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice.

​Learn more here: https://www.wecaninternational.org/

The Queens Borough President’s Office is hosting its fourth annual Climate Expo on Friday, September 25th at The New York Hall of Science! Join Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. for a Climate Expo featuring workshops on home energy and resiliency, creatures from Alley Pond, a mobile library, and so much more. Wrap up climate week with them!

RSVP is required for this event.

Join HVSFW for a weekend at Stone Ridge Orchard celebrating slow fashion makers of the Hudson Valley and beyond. Discover your new favorite sustainable designer at HVSFW fourth annual Organic Runway show on Friday, September 25th. The runway show will feature a collective of hyperlocal sustainable designers with time to mix and mingle afterwards.

VIP Week[end] tix: $100; GA Week[end]: $35; Student Week[end]: $28; GA Organic Runway only: $25; Student Organic Runway GA only: $20; GA Slow Fashion Fair only: $15 For tickets visit: https://www.hvsfw.org/weekend

Slow Fashion Fair Workshops:

• Natural Tie Dye with NY Sea Grant
• Sewing 101 classes with Creative Threads
• No-Sew Apron with Eco Art Play
• Drop-in Stencil Printing with Blank Canvas
• Needle Felting 101 with Hudson Valley Textile Project

Join at 4pm for an all ages Fashion Show to showcase the day’s creations!

-Free admission for children 10 and under.

-Stone Ridge Orchard is a working farm with natural irregular terrain, appropriate footwear is recommended.

Your invited to the launch of a collective climate action coalition, comprised of climate-focused orgs in NYC. hosted by NYC2030 District and the coalition partners: GridRewards, SolarOne, Logical Buildings, Resilient Red Hook, PowerMarket, Soulful Synergy, PSYCA, Clean + Healthy NY, & RETI Center.

Claim this free coupon for admission to this event here

About the Event:
Show up, learn, complete an action or a few, earn some prizes, make some friends, and watch the sunset over the water with a view of the Statue of Liberty.

Enjoy music, drinks, impact, and direct, measurable civic engagement. Thank you to the drink sponsors Yerba Madre, Ten to One Rum, & Il Dottore Gin.

Every New Yorker who walks in will have the option to take at least one concrete step with the partner orgs that cuts emissions, in alignment with the 2030 goals. The 2030 Districts Network’s goals are to reduce emissions in the entire built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero emissions by 2040. We will be announcing the action that each partner organization is offering in more detail in the lead-up to the event, so stay tuned! The actions include sign up for demand response, enroll in community solar, join a green energy workforce development training program, learn about household energy efficiency, purchase green renewable energy credits, volunteer for an emergency preparedness plan rollout in your neighborhood, alert your legislator your interest in current bills that aim to limit toxins in NY, & commit to some other type of climate action you want to take and agree to share once you do.

Be involved for one day where we take thousands of micro-actions to make one collective impact that we can all share with our networks.

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is coming to you!

We are pleased to invite you to a contractor breakfast hosted by NYSERDA to share updates on our new upstate energy efficiency program for multifamily buildings, AMP Up, and hear directly from you about how we can better support your work. Join us for a morning of good food, honest conversation, and a chance to shape how this program grows in your region.

Are you a building owner or property manager looking to improve your properties’ energy performance and lower costs for you and your residents?

NYSERDA is hitting the road to connect with multifamily property owners and managers across the state, and we’re coming to Newburgh. We’d love to have you join NYSERDA for an informal afternoon session to learn about AMP Up and talk through what it could mean for your portfolio, now or in the future.

Every summer, approximately 500 New Yorkers die prematurely due to extreme heat. As a changing climate leads to hotter summers, this problem will only be exacerbated. But about 10% of NYC residents don’t have air conditioning in their home. To address this problem, in 2025 the New York City Council passed the Cool Homes for All Act, requiring landlords to provide cooling systems for tenants at their request. In this panel, we will discuss how to address concerns about public health, affordability, and technical feasibility as the city plans to implement the law.

This event is in-person only and is open to the general public. Advanced registration is required. Register HERE.

PROGRAM

PANELISTS:

Jennifer Leone, Assistant Commissioner, Chief Sustainability Officer, New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development 

Lincoln Restler, New York City Council Member, Sponsor of Cool Homes for All Act 

Caleb Smith, New York City Policy Manager, WE ACT for Environmental Justice

MODERATOR: Christine Billy, Executive Director, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, NYU School of Law

CLE: New York CLE credit for the event is pending. If approved, the credit will be appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. 

REGISTRATION:

Advanced registration is required. REGISTER HERE.

This event is sponsored by the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at NYU School of Law.

The Manhattan Clean Energy Hub is hosting Energy Smart Workshops for tenants to learn more about energy saving tips you can use at home. Participants will receive a FREE home energy kit with $92 worth of energy efficiency materials, including LED light bulbs, a window insulation kit, and more! Pick up times will be shared as well as a drop off option during the meeting.

Please join NYSERDA on Thursday, October 8 at 10:00 a.m. ET for an offshore wind webinar as part of NYSERDA’s Learning from the Experts series. This webinar is the second in a five-part series on offshore construction. Experts from Ventolines will provide a deep dive into the offshore construction and installation processes that bring a project from permitted design to operational wind farm.

Visit wind.ny.gov for information about the other webinars in the Offshore Construction mini-series.

Learning from the Experts is an educational webinar series hosted by NYSERDA’s Offshore Wind Team, featuring independent experts speaking on key offshore wind topics, including wind farm technologies, development practices, regulatory processes, and research initiatives. Visit NYSERDA’s Learning from the Experts webpage for more information on the webinar series.

We hope you will join NYSDERA!

Best,
NYSERDA’s Offshore Wind Team

Presented by the New York League of Conservation Voters, The New York Climate Exchange, Renewable Energy Long Island, Sustainable Westchester, and Sustainable Hudson Valley

New York’s energy future is being built in communities across the state. Come join local leaders, policymakers, fire safety professionals, labor representatives, public health and environmental justice advocates, clean energy experts, and community stakeholders for a regional summit on the future of solar energy and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in New York.

Yes in My Backyard will bring together leaders from across sectors to explore how solar and battery storage can help New York meet its growing energy needs while strengthening reliability, affordability, public health, community resilience, and environmental justice.

Through expert panels and conversations, the Summit will highlight successful projects, emerging best practices, and the policies, partnerships, and investments needed to expand clean energy responsibly and affordably across New York.

Featured Conversations

Fire Safety & Design
Where a battery energy storage project is located and how it is designed are important parts of developing a safe facility. This panel will discuss why BESS projects are sited where they are, and take a closer look at the fire safety measures built into modern facilities. Fire safety and industry experts will discuss how BESS facilities are designed to prevent, detect, and respond to potential hazards, as well as the safety standards and testing requirements these systems must meet.

Environmental Justice & Public Health
The clean energy transition presents an opportunity to build healthier, more resilient communities while addressing longstanding environmental inequities. Panelists will examine how battery storage and solar energy can improve public health, support cleaner air, and strengthen community resilience. The discussion will explore the role of BESS in enabling more renewable energy, supporting critical facilities such as hospitals and community health centers during outages, and ensuring that communities that have historically experienced the greatest environmental burdens can share in the benefits of the clean energy transition.

Jobs & Career Pathways
The growth of battery energy storage is creating new opportunities for workers across New York, from construction and electrical trades to engineering, operations, and other skilled professions. Labor leaders, workforce experts, and industry representatives will highlight the career pathways and workforce investments needed to support the industry’s growth, including union apprenticeships and training programs. The conversation will explore opportunities for students and workers to build family-sustaining careers while strengthening local economies and preparing New York’s next generation of clean energy professionals.

Innovations for Scale
Solar and battery energy storage are transforming New York’s energy landscape and creating new opportunities to build a more reliable and resilient grid. Hear from leaders involved in the energy transition at scales from community to industry.  Panelists will share key strategies for modernizing the grid to scale up renewables and storage, building public support with a narrative of choice and responsibility, and enacting local codes to guide BESS development.

Registration is coming soon—stay tuned and be sure to RSVP early, as space will be limited!

Support your students and your practice in preparing for the new New York Inspires climate education mandate through engaging, developmentally appropriate teaching that brings sustainability and climate science into the elementary classroom.

Designed for K-4 educators (with discounted pricing available for Environmental Education CoSer districts), this interactive session explores how climate education can be embedded into existing curriculum across subject areas, not as an add-on, but as a natural extension of powerful teaching and learning.

Participants will build foundational knowledge of climate change causes, impacts, and solutions while exploring standards-aligned, ready-to-use resources connected to New York State Education Department learning standards. Through collaboration, interdisciplinary thinking, and individual application, educators will identify entry points for weaving climate education into current units of study in literacy, science, social studies, and beyond.

Grounded in inquiry, place-based learning, and real-world relevance, this session also highlights community partnerships and outdoor learning opportunities beyond classroom walls. Participants will engage in dialogue that supports shifts in instructional practice, drawing on colleague expertise while adapting ideas for their own classroom contexts.

Leave with practical strategies, inspiring resources, and a vision for empowering young learners as curious scientists, thoughtful problem-solvers, and future-ready stewards of the world around them. Climate education in elementary classrooms is not only about meeting a mandate, it’s about helping children imagine and shape a more sustainable future.

Special discounted pricing is available for Environmental Education CoSer subscribers. This includes educators from Wallkill, Kingston, Saugerties, Ellenville, and New Paltz.

Minimum Enrollment:
Courses require at least 15 participants.