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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.
Plugging into the Human Grid: The Overlooked Climate Solution Tech Can’t Touch ⚡🔌
Doomscrolling through endless planetary red flags can make you feel entirely isolated. But new global data shows you are far from alone in your ecological dread. This week on the pod: best-selling author Dr. Katharine Wilkinson discusses why our ultimate climate resource might just be each other.
Hawaiian Punch: Knocking Corporate Cash Out of Climate Politics 🌺
Ever wonder why ambitious climate bills get quietly choked to death before they even reach a vote? Anonymous corporate cash has a nasty habit of paralyzing local environmental policy, but a bold new legal experiment is fighting to give regular voters their voices back.
Letting the Cities Go Wild 🏙️🦊
We are wrapping up our Living City series (cue the “awwws”. Don’t worry, we’ll bring it back soon!) by stepping onto the wild side. From otter families navigating Singapore's downtown canals to London's buzzing bee sanctuaries, find out how urban rewilding is putting nature back on the municipal payroll.
The Feed Upgrade: Meet the 2026 Climate Creators to Watch 📱🌟
Your social media scroll is about to get a massive upgrade. This week, we are celebrating our favorite annual tradition by highlighting the digital visionaries making climate action go viral. Say goodbye to the doomscroll and hello to your new favorite internet heroes. Pique Action and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) have released the fifth annual Climate Creators to Watch list, spotlighting the storytellers making sustainability feel less like homework and more like something worth sharing with the group chat.
