Climate Collective Experiential Learning

11th Hour Racing’s LivingGallery provides a space and moment for visitors to slow down and see the hidden forms of life that keep our ecosystem healthy. Through a blend of traditional and “Living” artwork, the gallery reveals the intricate, often overlooked, connection between soil and water health. The subtle movement, sounds, and breathing of the gallery mirror the rhythms of nature. Each piece of artwork serves as a window into a hidden world where microbes, plants, and fungi are constantly at work.

The connection between soil and water health is also reflected in the partnership behind the gallery: two organizations, 11th Hour Racing and Ocean Hour Farm, each rooted in different areas of environmental stewardship, collaborating for healthy changes in the community.

Action Speaks, founded by Ingka Group, the largest retailer of IKEA and curated in collaboration with partners, will be building a 3,200-sf experiential pavilion (about the area of a tennis court) within the Climate Collective on the 2025 Campus. It will feature 20 climate solutions across how we eat, power, move, make, grow and finance, including but not limited to enhancing energy efficiency, optimizing supply chains and circularity including food systems, protecting and restoring ecosystems, and more.

Action speaks louder than words, so don’t miss out on all that they are bringing to the Climate Collective!

Join us at the kitchen table for friendly, no-pressure conversations about how climate affects our daily lives—and what CET can do about it. Whether you’re curious, concerned, or just want straight answers without the jargon, CET is here to talk with you. Bring your questions, your ideas, or just yourself. Let’s have a real conversation.

CET envisions a world that has embraced and advanced just and resilient climate solutions. They delivers practical, scalable climate solutions with no-cost consulting in the places they’re most needed—and often hardest to reach: homes, small businesses, farms, and community organizations.

Food Rescue US has provided 183M meals to those in need and avoided 541,641 tons of CO2eq emissions by filling plates not landfills. Their proprietary app empowers their over 26,000 volunteers to transfer fresh food surpluses from local businesses (primarily grocery stores and restaurants) to social service agencies serving the food insecure.

Stop by their networking zone to learn more about how to best reduce food waste!

Ocean Bottle is a B Corp certified reusable bottle brand working to address the ocean plastic crisis while supporting livelihoods in coastal communities. Their goal is to collect 7 billion waste plastic bottles by 2025.

Their award-winning reusable bottles are made from at least 65% recycled materials. They’re designed to last with a 10-year guarantee and are recyclable at end of life. For every Ocean Bottle we sell, they fund the collection of 1,000 plastic bottles from rivers and coasts in the Global South. Their plastic collectors exchange waste plastic for money and get access to healthcare and education.

Ocean 14 Capital (O14C) is a leading private equity growth firm in the blue economy. It aims to achieve market-leading returns while positively impacting marine ecosystems.  

The Blue Economy Impact Fund channels investment into start-ups working to ensure the sustainable use of ocean resources. This benefits economies, livelihoods and marine ecosystems. 

What do Homer Simpson, viral social memes, Nonna’s meatballs, and clean energy all have in common? Nuclear energy.

Take a deep dive into all aspects of the nuclear energy sector and understand how the largest single clean energy source in the U.S. is evolving to meet the moment. The Nuclear Makes It Happen activation elevates the benefits and value of nuclear energy in the world around us and encourages participants to see how nuclear energy makes “it” happen in their daily lives.

Clean energy advocates will be onsite to help break down misconceptions and hear from attendees about their experiences and perspectives on nuclear energy. Bring your creativity for hands-on activities, along with games and giveaways—and your hardest-hitting, wacky questions.

The Masungi Georeserve Foundation is working to protect biodiversity in the Philippines through conservation, education, and sustainable development. 

They created Masungi Georeserve, a conservation area over 2,000 hectares of land, to protect and restore a degraded area of rainforest in Rizal Province. Through their initiatives, they’re educating tourists on conservation and empowering Indigenous groups and young people to act as stewards of nature.  

Inspired by nature, CompPair develops healable and sustainable composite material solutions that extend product lifespans and support a circular economy. Their technology benefits manufacturers, end-users, and the planet by making composites more durable, repairable, and resource efficient.

HealTech™ is a breakthrough regenerative resin system that enables composite structures to heal damage on-site in just one minute—up to 60+ times—without changing shape or weight. It improves crack resistance, maintains structural integrity after multiple repairs, and is fully compatible with existing manufacturing processes. 

Mastercard is a global technology and payments company. They launched the Priceless Planet Coalition to bring together people and businesses to fund the restoration of 100 million trees.  

So far, they’ve funded 19 forest restoration projects on six continents. These are helping capture carbon, improving biodiversity and benefiting the local community. Through the Coalition, they are raising awareness of climate change, encouraging donations and inspiring people to act. 

Nordic SeaFarm is the largest seaweed farmer in Sweden. They cultivate seaweed for food, biomaterials, fertiliser and animal feed.

They have developed an innovative cultivation method that enables large-scale production of high-quality seaweed at a low cost directly in the sea. In their hatchery, they create spores from seaweed mother plants that we seed onto spools. These are then deployed in the ocean, off the west coast of Sweden.

The Javits Center’s Sustainability Activation is an interactive display that will tell their sustainability story.
 
It will allow guests to explore areas that interest them and will include a timeline representing their accomplishments and continued sustainability journey, visuals representing how their work fits into the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and sections dedicated to how their partners support this work.

SSAB is transforming the future of steel. Based on the HYBRIT® technology, which replaces coal in the iron ore reduction process with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen, SSAB aims to be the first steel company in the world to bring fossil-free steel to the market and largely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from our own operations in around 2030.

Together with our partners and customers, SSAB aims to create a fossil-free value chain, from the mine to the end-product. The result will be the world’s first fossil-free steelmaking technology, with virtually no carbon footprint.

Have you ever wondered what it takes for a wildfire to make it to the news? At Impact Ventures they utilize data to play, learn, and predict such various risks of fires.

PyroPath is an interactive, audience-adapted platform that empowers viewers to understand the science of wildfires through hands-on simulations, real-world data, and predictive modeling.

Stop by Impact Venture’s space at the Climate Collective to pick up your ‘Wildfire perennial plant’ and to play a game of guessing the next fire’s path, and maybe capture some residual carbon.

Stop by this networking zone to learn more about Vela's decarbonised, 100% wind-powered, transatlantic freight service. This next-generation shipping solution offers up to 99% lower carbon emissions and faster lead times than traditional sea freight while offering high-end service for product integrity and traceability at air freight standards. Long term, VELA aims at operating the world’s largest fleet of sailing cargo vessels!