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Fashion’s Return Problem: Can We Break the Curse of the Endless Return? 🎃 ♻️
— Written by Ivy Sheibar Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into: The high environmental your online shopping addiction Tech platforms reviving repair, resale, and reverse logistics 3 steps to make your closet circular According to McKinsey, 25% of online apparel orders are returned.
Down Under and Fully Charged: Lessons from the World’s Wildest Power Grid ⚡🦘
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The New Climate Dictionary: Weather is Getting Weirder 🌊🌪️
— Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Action team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! An oceanic Kelvin wave is a massive, subsurface pulse of warm water that travels eastward across the Pacific Ocean, temporarily elevating sea levels along coastal shorelines by several inches to over a foot. Last week, that invisible aquatic swell rolled up to Southern California's doorstep.
Current Events: Is the Global EV Market Recharging? ⚡🚗
— Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! We’re a small team, and we make this newsletter because we genuinely love finding climate stories that make the future feel more interesting, hopeful, and possible.
Beyond AC: 3 Materials Chilling Our Cities 🧊⚡
— Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! We’re a small team, and we make this newsletter because we genuinely love finding climate stories that make the future feel more interesting, hopeful, and possible.
Sick of the Heat: Rethinking Resilience and Public Health 🌡️ 🩺
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! The Mercury Crisis 🚨 Heat stress occurs when ambient weather overwhelms the human body's internal thermostat, driving core temperatures into dangerous territory. You know the feeling: stepping outside and getting slapped by a suffocating wall of heavy air that turns simple breathing into a chore.
Where Are They Now? NextNow Innovators Turn Prototypes into High-Flying Reality ✈️
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Building Big: The Scale-Up Era 🏗️ Commercial scale-up is the industrial transition of moving lab-tested hardware into full-scale manufacturing facilities. Bridging that gap means grinding through brutal engineering bottlenecks, capital requirements, and supply chain gridlocks. Our NextNow alumni refuse to stay grounded.
Carpool, Community, and Clean Air: The 1.6 Million-Strong Movement That’s Inviting Everyone In
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Mom-Partisanship Takes Center Stage 🔴 Mom-partisanship is a nonpartisan advocacy strategy where caregivers prioritize children’s health over political polarization to force urgent environmental action.
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Defending California’s Coastal Power 🌊
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! A coastal management program is a federally backed legal framework that grants coastal states binding authority to review and reject federal projects that threaten local shorelines. Enacted under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, this national framework operates through a mechanism called federal consistency review.
Plug, Play, and Power Up: The Rise of Balcony Solar 🔌☀️
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Balcony solar is a compact kit of portable panels that attach to a railing or patio and plug directly into a standard 120-volt wall outlet.
Spotted in Copenhagen: The Family-First Blueprint for Climate Action 🚲🇩🇰
— Written by Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Family-first urban transit is the practice of designing public transportation networks so caregivers and children can travel seamlessly without needing a personal vehicle. Dragging a clunky stroller up three flights of broken concrete subway stairs in New York or London turns public transport into a brutal workout.
Red-Carding Climate Risk: The High-Stakes Business of Sports Ecology ⚽️📈
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! A climate physical risk assessment is the systematic evaluation of how extreme weather, rising temperatures, and shifting environmental patterns threaten tangible assets, operations, and financial stability.
Leveling the Playing Field: Elite Athletes Demanding Climate Reform 🏆
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Athlete climate advocacy is the strategic use of a professional sporting platform to demand systemic environmental reform rather than just promoting personal lifestyle tweaks. For decades, traditional team managers gave players a simple, rigid instruction: stick to sports.
Striking Out Emissions: Stadiums, Travel, and The Away Game Dilemma ⚾️
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! A handful of venues are proving that massive local facilities can double as serious testing grounds for regenerative land management and zero-waste logistics. The teams calling these buildings home are completely rethinking how a stadium interacts with its local environment.
The Ultimate Sporting Paradox: Saving the Games That Glue Us Together ⚽️
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Sport ecology is the study of how athletic events interact with, and are altered by, the changing natural environment. Today, this discipline is highlighting a fascinating, double-sided dilemma. On one hand, global sports transport millions of people and tons of gear across continents, creating a massive environmental footprint.
Plugging into the Human Grid: The Overlooked Climate Solution Tech Can’t Touch ⚡🔌
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Doomscrolling through a feed full of planetary red flags under the cold glare of your phone at 2:00 AM has a way of triggering a familiar, tight knot in your chest. It feels like keeping a heavy secret, leaving you entirely isolated.
Hawaiian Punch: Knocking Corporate Cash Out of Climate Politics 🌺
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Citizens United is a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that gave corporations the green light to spend unlimited, anonymous money to influence elections—unleashing a toxic flood of "dark money" that shields the identities of wealthy political donors. Before this ruling, bipartisan momentum around climate solutions was actually building.
Letting the Cities Go Wild 🏙️🦊
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! You may or may not have heard of the term “urban rewilding.” The dictionary definition is the deliberate restoration of self-regulating, native ecosystems within urban centers to allow wildlife and natural processes to reclaim paved landscapes.
The Feed Upgrade: Meet the 2026 Climate Creators to Watch š±š
ā Written by Kip Pastor Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donāt already subscribe you can do so here š subscribe here! Our Favorite Annual Tradition š Climate change touches nearly every part of our lives: the food on our plates, the air in our lungs, the energy bills in our inboxes, and the weather apps we check with increasing suspicion. But climate change is not a one-size-fits-all issue.
Stop Doomscrolling, Start Organizing: Adam Conover’s Blueprint for Power
— Written by Kip Pastor Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! We’re beyond excited to officially pull back the curtain on a new project from Pique Action: The Apocalyptic Optimist — a video podcast hosted by sociologist, climate activist scholar, and author Dr. Dana R. Fisher. This launch feels personal for us. Back in the fall of 2023, Dana R.
Losing Ground in the Turf War ⚽🌡️
— Written by Hana Leshner Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Synthetic turf might be the greatest branding coup since “clean coal.” Somewhere along the way, we collectively agreed that rolling out a giant petroleum welcome mat and calling it “grass” was a totally normal civic upgrade.
Breaking Up with the Blacktop 💔🚜
— Written by the Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! The Living City: School’s Out for Asphalt 🎒🌳 Welcome back to The Living City, our miniseries exploring hard-working, nature-based urban solutions. This week, we’re having a long-overdue talk with asphalt (and its gray cousin, concrete) about why it’s finally time to move on. What’s the big deal?
What If Buildings Behaved Like Forests? šæ
ā Written by the Pique Action Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donāt already subscribe you can do so here š subscribe here! Do you like tangible solutions that you can actually touch? Good. For the next four weeks, weāre getting out hands dirty! Welcome to The Living City, a four-part series exploring how nature isn't just decoration ā itās the most efficient, hard-working infrastructure we have.
Fresh Air & Big Ideas: LA Climate Week Recap 🌳
— Written by the Pique Action Team Climate Storytelling & Data Masterclass at Little City Farm Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! 🌴A Climate-Change of Scenery🤝 Social infrastructure is the collection of physical places and community networks that foster human connection and collective resilience.
Port of Long Beach: A Shore Bet for Clean Air ⚓⚡
— Written by Hana Leshner & the Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Welcome to the last edition of Climate Blueprints, a Pique Behind the Curtain mini-series exploring the neighborhood-level infrastructure keeping our cities livable. We’re zooming in on the Los Angeles region to see how local projects turn global goals into tangible community wins.
So Mulch Potential: Turning Your Yard Into an Ocean Hero 🪴🌊
— Written by the Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Welcome back to The Climate Blueprint, a Pique Behind the Curtain mini-series, where we look at the neighborhood-level infrastructure keeping our cities livable. We're zooming in on the Los Angeles region in the lead-up to LA Climate Week (April 8-15) to see how local projects are turning global goals into tangible community wins.
The Canopy Project: Branching Out for Shade Equity in the City of Angels ğğ
â Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donât already subscribe you can do so here ğ subscribe here! ğ±ğ Welcome back to The Climate Blueprint, a Pique Behind the Curtain mini-series where we look at the neighborhood-level infrastructure keeping our cities livable.
Alley-Oop! Turning L.A.’s Dead Weight into a Neighborhood Sponge 🧽🌿
— Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Team Photo by Trust for Public Land Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Welcome back to Climate Blueprints, our special Pique Behind the Curtain mini-series zooming in on local projects building resilience to climate change in the Los Angeles region in the lead up to lead up to LA Climate Week.
Climate Blueprints: Los Angeles đșïžđ±
â Written by Hana Leshner & The Pique Team Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donât already subscribe you can do so here đ subscribe here! Introducing: đïž Climate Blueprints đ±đ Welcome to the first installment of our special Pique Behind the Curtain mini-series, Climate Blueprints, where we zoom in on the local solutions that are a force for climate adaptationâor building resilience to climate change impacts.
Piques and Valleys: 2025 Wrap-Up and a State of the Union
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! 2025: Our Best Year Yet By many metrics, this was Pique’s best year yet. We worked with and employed 56 people, sponsored seven events, grew our partners, told instrumental stories, and started producing our first feature documentary with climate leaders like Dr. Dana Fisher (check out her TED Talk) and Dr. Katharine Hayhoe.
Give Better, Waste Less: A Gifting Season You Can Feel Good About
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Good Gifts Come in Small Packages, but the Best Ones Are Package-Free The excitement of holiday gifting often comes with an unfortunate side effect: a massive surge in trash. In fact, household waste in the U.S. generally increases 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, roughly one million extra tons.
Weathering the Cost: Our Best Bets Against the Climate Insurance Crisis 💵
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Rates Are Going Through the Roof 💰 Home insurance rates in the U.S. are rising even faster than inflation. And for years, we've seen the link between rising costs and climate change become more and more clear.
Dam, That’s Good News: The Klamath Runs Free 🛶
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! The Great Dam Debate Dams have depleted fisheries and degraded river ecosystems on nearly all of our nation's rivers. They've destroyed aquatic habitats, disrupted natural river ecosystems, altered water flow, temperature and quality. They've also driven extinction for several species of fish.
COP, Drop, and Roll: Your Guide to COP 30 and Winning the Narrative š
ā Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Matthew TenBruggencate on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donāt already subscribe you can do so here š subscribe here! Decoding The COP Jargon š£ļø COP is officially in full swing. And with abstract negotiations and political drama brewing in the background, it can be hard to get to the heart of the matter, and understand what to hope for as the week goes on.
COP-Out: Africa Shines, America Splits, Brazil Playing Both Sides
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Saj Shafique on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! America the No-Show ❌ The 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, is just around the corner, and things are already tense on the global stage. Perhaps most notably this week, the Trump Administration announced that no senior U.S. officials will attend the summit.
The Root of the Matter: Mangrove-Planting Drones are Supercharging Restoration 🌱
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Why are Mangroves so Important? Mangroves are coastal wetlands of salt-tolerant trees, with. They're also particularly good at storing carbon (and one of the world's most vital carbon sinks) which helps fight back against climate change.
California’s Fungi-Powered Wildfire Recovery: That’s What I’m Toxin About!
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Marina Esterlein on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Bioremediation: What is it?🍄 Bioremediation is nature’s version of cleanup crew work. It’s the process of using living organisms (like plants, fungi, and microbes) to remove or neutralize pollutants from a contaminated site, such as soil, water, or air.
Rooting for Change: Empowering Women Farmers to Grow Global Food Security š½
ā Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Anindito Mukherjee, courtesy Project Dandelion Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donāt already subscribe you can do so here š subscribe here! A Global Paradox š Smallholder farmers are the backbone of global food production, providing around one-third of the world's food and nearly 70% of Africa's supply.
The Virtual Power Plant Revolution: Watt's All the Fuss About? ğ
â Written by Hana Leshner Photo: Csaba Gyulavári on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donât already subscribe you can do so here ğ subscribe here! Thereâs a power plant in your neighborhood As our aging grid groans under the stress of extreme weather, the solution to keeping the lights on might be hiding in plain sightâin our homes, driveways, and businesses.
Crude Awakening: The Last Straw
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Plastic: Not Just Floating in the Ocean 🏭️ When most of us think about the environmental detriment of plastic, we picture ocean birds choked with bags, whales with bellies full of debris, or the garbage patch that’s twice the size of Texas. And yes, with a decomposition timeline in the hundreds of years, plastic is terrible wherever it is.
Your Imports Just Got Hotter: The Climate Impact of Tariffs
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Supply Change: A Mixed Climate Bag 🚢 At first glance, Trump’s tariffs might seem disconnected from climate policy. But in reality, they create a massive ripple of impact on emissions, energy infrastructure, and manufacturing – all key pieces of our climate targets.
Success Baguettes Success: Paris’s Ride Toward Healthier Living
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Paris was once known for dirty, congested boulevards and smoggy air. But over the past few years, the city has undergone a remarkable transformation into an unlikely utopia for cyclists.
Climate Impacts Aren’t Colorblind
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo by Thomas Wilson on Pexels Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! A Long History of Disparities📚️ Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the US. Unfortunately, racism, racist practices and systems, and oppression of marginalized communities did not end on June 19,1865.
Hollywood Climate Summit 2025
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! About the Summit🎞️ Culture is one of the biggest drivers of change. If you want to shift behavior, adoption, and decisions, start with culture and content.
Built to Last: The Demand for Climate-Smart Infrastructure 🏗️
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! The Age of Extremes ⛈️ Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it’s happening now. Fires are burning faster and more frequently, floods are swelling higher, and hurricanes are striking harder, leaving a lasting toll on our infrastructure and communities.
Judgement Day for Big Polluters: A Landmark Win for Climate Litigation ⚖️
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo: Markus Krisetya on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! The Case for Accountability 📖 On July 23rd, the International Court of Justice ruled that countries have a legal responsibility, under international law, for their carbon emissions and contributions to climate change.
Climate Artivism: Paint the Picture, Power the Movement
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Art Imitates Life 🖼️ Having spent the week celebrating film as a powerful tool for optimism in the climate movement, we were reminded just how important art is to our mission (and all missions, for that matter).
Feeling The Heat? Read This Summer Survival Guide 📖
— Written by Lyle Jarvis Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! This Summer’s Heat is No Fluke 🌇 Extreme heat is on the rise, and this summer is proof. Cities across the U.S. are breaking records and sweating through dangerous, prolonged heat waves.
Roam Sweet Roam: The Promise of Wildlife Corridors đ
â Written by Lyle Jarvis Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you donât already subscribe you can do so here đ subscribe here! The Worldâs Largest Wildlife Corridor đïž The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing has been more than a decade in the making. In the 2010s, evidence began to pile up that California's mountain lions and other species were suffering from genetic isolation, and experts began making more and more pleas to find a solution.
Dispatches from Climate Week NYC
— Written by Pique Action Do you enjoy our weekly newsletter? Please forward to a friend! If you don’t already subscribe you can do so here 👉 subscribe here! Dispatches from Climate Week NYC Something I learned: ReefGen is creating small, economical underwater robots to repopulate coral reefs, seagrasses, and restore the oceans. 🤖 Spotted: President Mary Robinson continues to lead by example and with love, urgency, and humanity.
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