Pique Behind the Curtain Vol. 15

Havard List Highlights and Methane on the Brain

Welcome back to your favorite climate newsletter, Pique Behind the Curtain, where we share the latest and greatest climate solutions. This week we highlight some of the impressive individuals from our joint #ClimateCreators22 list with Harvard Chan C-CHANGE and look ahead to a startup that will keep away your climate change blues.

Climate Creators to Watch in 2022

Last week alongside Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, we announced 16 creators making original, entertaining, and educational content that is reshaping the climate narrative and empowering people to focus on solutions that improve their health and the health of the planet.

Here is a closer look at three of the creators and the content they’re sharing to help raise awareness on climate.

Rollie Williams (Climate Town)

Rollie Williams is a Brooklyn-based comedian and video editor who was chosen for his videos in the style of a late-night comedy news show, using investigative reporting on complex climate topics that makes you laugh out loud and feel inspired to take action. Check out his channel Climate Town. 

Alaina Wood

Alaina Wood is a sustainability scientist and climate communicator based in Tennessee. Her work as a scientist primarily focuses on helping rural areas manage their waste and stormwater, and her work as a climate communicator focuses on climate solutions and debunking climate nihilism. If you're stressed about #ClimateDoom, head on over to TikTok's premier myth buster, @TheGarbageQueen. 

Kristy Drutman

Kristy Drutman is a Jewish-Filipina environmental media creator and founder of Brown Girl Green, a media platform exploring the intersections between media, diversity, and environmentalism. For content chockfull of climate solutions, check out @browngirlgreen on TikTok. 

Sneak Pique

Greenhouse gas emission news been giving you the blues? 

Bluemethane is a company capturing methane from water and turning it into biofuel before it can escape into the atmosphere and contribute to warming. Their vision is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s fresh water reservoirs - and they’re using turbine-like tech to do it.

Intrigued? Tune in next week to watch the full video.

The Future of Streets - Freethink

Cities were designed for people - but streets that make up the usual urban city are dominated by automobiles that release harmful emissions. Does a world exist in which we can take these spaces back?

Check out the video here.

Every week we share recommendations from readers about climate films and books. This week’s rec comes from Francesca Rivera.

• Braiding Sweetgrass - A 2013 nonfiction book written by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass is about the role of  Indigenous knowledge as both an alternative and complementary approach to accepted scientific methodologies. Kimmerer explores the relationship between plants and humans and how a spiritual connection to nature can help us better understand modern science.

PS. We're hiring a Director of Audience Growth - know anyone good at social media, marketing and content? Send us their way!