Pique Behind the Curtain Vol. 10

Mitigating Wildfires

Welcome to our tenth edition of Pique Behind the Curtain. All of us at Pique Action are wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. Take some time to relax, spend time with loved ones, and maybe even give someone the gift of positive climate storytelling by passing on our newsletter. We’re off next week, so if you’re missing us, check out the best episodes from 2021 here. And don’t worry, we’ll be right back at it in January. 

Perimeter Solutions: Preventing Wildfires from Spreading

Not all climate technologies are focused on reducing carbon emissions. Some are focused on climate adaptation. This week we take a look at Perimeter Solutions, which has developed fire prevention and retardant products to slow down the destruction of wildfires. It’s a key tool for firefighters on the frontlines.

How big of a problem have wildfires become? In 2020 the US experienced:

🔥   58,950 wildfires 🌲  10.1 million acres burned 💰  $19.8 billion in wildfire damages

Led by CEO Edward Goldberg, Perimeter Solutions creates products that are safe and environmentally friendly, providing protection to forests all year long.

Watch the film here.

In the last 10 weeks, we’ve released micro-documentaries on 10 different companies that are developing game-changing climate solutions. Here are 3 episodes that we think you’ll enjoy:

Cydee: Lighting the Dark

Monika Jha saw the social effects of energy poverty up close: the lack of reliable street lighting made it unsafe to go out at night, theft was abundant & emissions were high.

So, she invented a new lighting concept that saves cost & reduces energy.

Watch here.

Formo: Real Cheese, Without the Cow

Formo is a cellular agriculture startup that develops cultivated, animal-free dairy products through precision fermentation.

Through this innovative scientific approach, Formo is ensuring that the future of food is sustainable, scalable and tasty. 

Watch here.

Nitricity: Decarbonizing Fertilizer

We need nitrogen fertilizer in order to feed billions of people, but the current process contributes roughly 6% of annual GHG emissions.

Nitricity has a solution - produce fertilizer from just air, water & renewable electricity.

Watch here.

The Ocean Cleanup Project - Now This

The Ocean Cleanup Project is an ambitious mission to clean up the world’s biggest pile of ocean trash. Here’s how they’ve made progress in 2021. 

Every week we share recommendations from readers about climate films and documentaries to watch. This week’s rec comes from Victoria Park:

• Fantastic Fungi - This visually entrancing documentary takes us on a time-lapse journey to explore the mysterious world of the Kingdom fungi and its implications for medicine, health, and the sustainability and regeneration of our planet. We linked the trailer here, but you can watch the full film on Netflix.

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