Sick of the Heat: Rethinking Resilience and Public Health 🌡️ 🩺
Extreme heat is no longer just a summer inconvenience; it is an escalating public health emergency that overpowers human biology. Discover three financial and policy solutions protecting human health on the frontlines of a warming world.
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Where Are They Now? NextNow Innovators Turn Prototypes into High-Flying Reality ✈️
Moving climate technology out of the lab and onto factory floors requires raw grit and massive capital. This week, six NextNow alumni prove that scaling up is actively reshaping our skies, batteries, and home renovations. From historic electric flights to climate-smart butcher blocks sitting on hardware store shelves, here is how some of our favorite pioneers are breaking ground.
Carpool, Community, and Clean Air: The 1.6 Million-Strong Movement That’s Inviting Everyone In
When federal environmental guardrails buckle, everyday parents step up to take the wheel. Former magazine editor Dominique Browning built an army of 1.6 million caregivers who serve as the spark for a broader, cross-sector coalition fighting toxic emissions, unpermitted diesel pollution, and dirty industrial projects. Read on to discover how "mom-partisanship" turns fierce protective instinct into a wider, inclusive community movement driving lasting victories.
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Defending California’s Coastal Power 🌊
Federal regulators want to strip California's legal authority to block offshore oil drilling along our shorelines. Pique team members joined a packed room of activists, state leaders, and local elders in Santa Monica to testify against this federal land grab. Read on to learn how our coastal protections work, why they face an existential threat, and how you can submit public comments before August 22.
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Climate Week Won’t Save Us. That’s Why We're Going. 🗽
Climate policy is moving backward in some places. Climate impacts are moving forward everywhere. And somehow, a lot of climate solutions are accelerating anyway. So what exactly are we hoping to accomplish by parachuting into New York for a week?
Sick of the Heat: Rethinking Resilience and Public Health 🌡️ 🩺
Extreme heat is no longer just a summer inconvenience; it is an escalating public health emergency that overpowers human biology. Discover three financial and policy solutions protecting human health on the frontlines of a warming world.
Where Are They Now? NextNow Innovators Turn Prototypes into High-Flying Reality ✈️
Moving climate technology out of the lab and onto factory floors requires raw grit and massive capital. This week, six NextNow alumni prove that scaling up is actively reshaping our skies, batteries, and home renovations. From historic electric flights to climate-smart butcher blocks sitting on hardware store shelves, here is how some of our favorite pioneers are breaking ground.
Carpool, Community, and Clean Air: The 1.6 Million-Strong Movement That’s Inviting Everyone In
When federal environmental guardrails buckle, everyday parents step up to take the wheel. Former magazine editor Dominique Browning built an army of 1.6 million caregivers who serve as the spark for a broader, cross-sector coalition fighting toxic emissions, unpermitted diesel pollution, and dirty industrial projects. Read on to discover how "mom-partisanship" turns fierce protective instinct into a wider, inclusive community movement driving lasting victories.
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Defending California’s Coastal Power 🌊
Federal regulators want to strip California's legal authority to block offshore oil drilling along our shorelines. Pique team members joined a packed room of activists, state leaders, and local elders in Santa Monica to testify against this federal land grab. Read on to learn how our coastal protections work, why they face an existential threat, and how you can submit public comments before August 22.
Plug, Play, and Power Up: The Rise of Balcony Solar 🔌☀️
For decades, home solar was reserved for homeowners with thousands to spare. Now, plug-and-play balcony solar kits let renters harvest sunlight right from their patio sockets. Here’s how tiny micro-inverters and new legislative wins are empowering apartment dwellers to cut summer cooling bills.
Spotted in Copenhagen: The Family-First Blueprint for Climate Action 🚲🇩🇰
When Pique Action’s Hana Leshner spent three days exploring Copenhagen with her family, she discovered a city where low-carbon living feels completely effortless. From stroller-friendly subways to upcycled bakery pasta, Denmark proves climate infrastructure succeeds when it puts everyday human needs first.
Red-Carding Climate Risk: The High-Stakes Business of Sports Ecology ⚽️📈
A landmark new climate report reveals that the 2026 World Cup could be the last of its kind in North America. We dive into the financial threat of rising temperatures on sports business, explore the staggering findings of the Pitches in Peril report, and explain why saving our favorite games requires playing both offense and defense against climate change.
Leveling the Playing Field: Elite Athletes Demanding Climate Reform 🏆
Wildfires and extreme weather are rewriting the rules of modern sports. We explore a Major League pitcher throwing heat at emissions, winter Olympians refusing to let their sports melt away, and surfers drawing a line in the sand against offshore drilling.
Striking Out Emissions: Stadiums, Travel, and The Away Game Dilemma ⚾️
Professional sports are shifting from performative greening to real environmental action. We explore stadiums knocking sustainability out of the park, examine the heavy carbon footprint of fan travel, and share a playbook for kicking fossil fuel sponsors off the field. Think of this edition as the antidote to World Cup emissions.
The Ultimate Sporting Paradox: Saving the Games That Glue Us Together ⚽️
With the World Cup in full swing, global soccer dominates screens across the planet. Yet sports find themselves locked in a complicated double-header, acting as both major carbon polluters and vulnerable targets of extreme weather. For the next week’s we’ll be looking at Climate and Sports, exploring why preserving the vital social glue of athletics means rewriting our sports impact playbook.