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Pique Behind the Curtain: Food Waste 🗑️
Welcome to another edition of Pique Behind the Curtain's newsletter! This week, our series, Reinventing Tomorrow, tackles a major global issue: food waste. We meet Mori, a company innovating a sustainable solution with a surprising secret ingredient 🧑🍳
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.
AI: Fossil Fuel-Driven Doomsday Machine or Climate Superhero? 👀
The conversation around AI is swirling with controversy and confusion. Focused on robots taking our jobs, energy demand spiking emissions, or gen-AI superhero selfies, we’ve overlooked the game-changing ability of AI and Big Data to tackle big issues that directly impact our communities like climate change, hunger, wildfires, and blackouts. We just produced a five-part docuseries about Google’s data centers and AI that explores all of those topics and it left us feeling optimistic. Continue reading to find out why. 📰
