Bright Ideas: Inside Africa’s Solar Revolution💡
A few weeks ago, The World Bank, African Development Bank and dozens of leaders from across Africa gathered to discuss bringing electricity to 300 million people across the continent. The plan, a whopping $35 billion investment called Mission 300, is geared toward building local solar sites (like minigrids) in rural, developing areas. It’s the biggest burst of electricity spending in Africa’s history, and a huge commitment to clean energy. Keep reading to hear how solar can jumpstart developing societies, and change hundreds of millions of lives! And if you learn something or enjoy the newsletter, please share with a friend.
Changing the Fertilizer Game 🚜
Welcome to another edition of PBTC’s newsletter! This week, we’re getting our hands dirty with another episode of Reinventing Tomorrow. Set in the heart of sustainable agriculture, Nitricity is a fertilizer company revolutionizing how we grow food. Keep reading to hear how this innovative climate solution is making growing greener! 🧑🌾
Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️
Welcome back to Pique Behind The Curtain! This week, we’re highlighting an episode from Reinventing Tomorrow to check out Kubik – a company turning recycled plastic waste into homes and community centers. Based in Ethiopia, Kubik is making building practices more sustainable, fighting for affordable housing, creating dignified jobs, AND cutting back on plastic waste... all at once. Keep reading to hear more! 🚧
Pique Behind the Curtain: Empowering Girls and Building a Greener Future📚
Welcome back to PBTC! This week, we're thrilled to share a story of hope and empowerment from Season 2 of our video series, Reinventing Tomorrow: CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education)! CAMFED gives young women in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa the opportunity to get into classrooms and further inspire their communities. Keep reading to hear how CAMFED is empowering our future leaders. 👩🏿🏫
When the Wildfire Hits Home: A Pique Perspective
What can we say that hasn’t been said? For starters, Pique Action is a Los Angeles-based company, and we’re grateful to report that our team is safe. Our kids are back to school and, for us, there are semblances of normalcy. Read on for our unique thoughts on navigating this climate disaster, how to help, and what's ahead.
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Up in the Air: The Future of the E.P.A. ☁️
The EPA is the government agency tasked with protecting our clean air and water. And despite a decades-long track record of protecting us from environmental threats, the EPA is facing serious threats of its own. Keep reading to learn more about what the agency actually does, how it impacts your health, and how state and local efforts can pick up some of the slack left by the feds.
Bright Ideas: Inside Africa’s Solar Revolution💡
A few weeks ago, The World Bank, African Development Bank and dozens of leaders from across Africa gathered to discuss bringing electricity to 300 million people across the continent. The plan, a whopping $35 billion investment called Mission 300, is geared toward building local solar sites (like minigrids) in rural, developing areas. It’s the biggest burst of electricity spending in Africa’s history, and a huge commitment to clean energy. Keep reading to hear how solar can jumpstart developing societies, and change hundreds of millions of lives! And if you learn something or enjoy the newsletter, please share with a friend.
Changing the Fertilizer Game 🚜
Welcome to another edition of PBTC’s newsletter! This week, we’re getting our hands dirty with another episode of Reinventing Tomorrow. Set in the heart of sustainable agriculture, Nitricity is a fertilizer company revolutionizing how we grow food. Keep reading to hear how this innovative climate solution is making growing greener! 🧑🌾
Building a more sustainable future one Kubik at a time 🏗️
Welcome back to Pique Behind The Curtain! This week, we’re highlighting an episode from Reinventing Tomorrow to check out Kubik – a company turning recycled plastic waste into homes and community centers. Based in Ethiopia, Kubik is making building practices more sustainable, fighting for affordable housing, creating dignified jobs, AND cutting back on plastic waste... all at once. Keep reading to hear more! 🚧
Pique Behind the Curtain: Empowering Girls and Building a Greener Future📚
Welcome back to PBTC! This week, we're thrilled to share a story of hope and empowerment from Season 2 of our video series, Reinventing Tomorrow: CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education)! CAMFED gives young women in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa the opportunity to get into classrooms and further inspire their communities. Keep reading to hear how CAMFED is empowering our future leaders. 👩🏿🏫
When the Wildfire Hits Home: A Pique Perspective
What can we say that hasn’t been said? For starters, Pique Action is a Los Angeles-based company, and we’re grateful to report that our team is safe. Our kids are back to school and, for us, there are semblances of normalcy. Read on for our unique thoughts on navigating this climate disaster, how to help, and what's ahead.
Let’s Go Full Circle! Increasing a Circular Economy🌀
Circularity, a buzz word or the solution to the billions of tons of plastic waste swallowing our planet? We need a transformative approach to help solve this, enter: molecular recycling. This is what Rey Banatao and his team at Google’s X - The Moonshot Factory are working on. The final episode of Where the Internet Lives is out now! Keep reading to hear about how data and AI are helping to drive a more circular economy 🌀
Gobbling Up an Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving 🌎 🦃
Thanksgiving’s around the corner, despite it still feeling like summer in most of the country. With this holiday coming up, we wanted to unpack how much this food-based celebration impacts the environment. Turkey and Thanksgiving are synonymous for most of us, so, how much turkey do Americans eat on this day? Let's find out.
How Can We Decarbonize the Food System? 🐄 🌱 🍳
90 billion pounds of food is wasted every year and 44 million people in the U.S. don’t know where their next meal is coming from. 4 billion people worldwide rely on nitrogen fertilizer made with fossil fuels. Today we’re highlighting two orgs, Switch Bioworks and Feeding America, fighting to decarbonize the food space and reroute food to the people who need it most. Keep reading to hear about Episode 1 of Reinventing Tomorrow and Episode 3 of Where the Internet Lives.
Your Vote, Our Planet: Power Up Climate Impact at the Polls🗳️
Newsflash: Voting is how you can make the most climate impact. This election is extremely critical for the climate movement and every vote counts. The results of this election could help fund more initiatives to decarbonize the planet and help during the green energy transition. Today we focus on local elections because they can truly move the needle, especially matter when pushing for decarbonization. Keep reading to meet a few climate champions running this Fall + how your vote actually matters.
Wildfires are Inevitable🌲
But wildfire disasters don’t have to be. For generations, fire was known as a natural part of the ecosystem and helpful for species regulations– this changed when we tried to control it. As we enter a period of accelerated climate change, every year we see new record-breaking wildfires devastating many U.S. states. We are facing the consequences of our own actions. Watch Episode 1 of Where the Internet Lives with Research Forester Mark Finney at Missoula Fire Sciences Lab to see how we can move toward a future where fire is part of a resilient ecosystem instead of a destructive force.