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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

The Pollen Predicament 🌳

One of the best ways to help fight climate change is to talk about it, which is why we're excited to announce our 2024 Climate Creators to Watch with Pique Action. The 17 creators on this list are using social media to make original, entertaining, and educational content that’s reshaping the climate narrative, combatting misinformation, and empowering people to focus on solutions that improve their health and the health of the planet through climate actions.

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

Announcing the Climate Creators to Watch in 2024

One of the best ways to help fight climate change is to talk about it, which is why we're excited to announce our 2024 Climate Creators to Watch with Pique Action. The 17 creators on this list are using social media to make original, entertaining, and educational content that’s reshaping the climate narrative, combatting misinformation, and empowering people to focus on solutions that improve their health and the health of the planet through climate actions.

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

Axios First Look

A new YouTube show focused on climate solutions aims to take viewers on a comedic tour of the options available to mitigate human-caused climate change.

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

PIQUE ACTION DEBUTS UNF*CKING THE PLANET, A NEW CLIMATE COMEDY SHOW

Climate change isn’t funny. But we made this show anyway. UnF*cking the Planet is a new YouTube series produced by Pique Action that brings a sharp perspective to the climate conversation. Directed by Real Time with Bill Maher writer Adam Felber and hosted by popular TikTok sensation Hazel Thayer, the six-episode season satirically cuts through the BS and offers tangible solutions…and maybe even a dose of confidence in a better future.

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Tyler Steinhardt Tyler Steinhardt

Announcing the Climate Creators to Watch in 2023

One of the best ways to help fight climate change is to talk about it, which is why we're excited to announce our 2023 Climate Creators to Watch with Pique Action. The 17 creators on this list are using social media to make original, entertaining, and educational content that’s reshaping the climate narrative, combatting misinformation, and empowering people to focus on solutions that improve their health and the health of the planet through climate actions.

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

Adweek: Fighting Climate Doom With Solutions-Focused (and Science-Backed) Inspirational TikToks

Pique Action offers an alternative to two extremes within climate-related discourse, both of which can lead to inaction: the feelings of anxious, helpless nihilism inadvertently triggered by climate coverage aiming to scare people into action (aka climate doom), and the comfortable apathy that results from exaggerating the possibilities of technology to reverse climate change (aka “hopium”). “We’re all tired of seeing polar bears float out to sea, and melting glaciers, and flooding and fires - and it’s not galvanizing anyone,” Pastor said. “We believe that telling human stories of innovation and solutions can help change the overall narrative.”

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

Pathfinder: Uplifting Climate Stories

Pathfinder is a new newsletter uplifting good climate stories written by our resident sustainability scientist, Alaina Wood. Using her experience as a science communicator in both business and bureaucracy, Alaina is compiling the most important weekly stories in climate.

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Shayna Berglas Shayna Berglas

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS MEDIA COMPANY PIQUE ACTION RAISES $1 MILLION

Climate solutions media company Pique Action today announced the close of a $1 million pre-seed fundraising round. Pique aims to change the conversation around climate by producing and distributing content that elevates solutions and drives action. The fundraise was led by the global climate venture capital firm Amasia, with participation from Baruch Future Ventures and Fairbridge Park.

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Tyler Steinhardt Tyler Steinhardt

Pique Action and EARTHDAY.ORG Announce a Partnership for Earth Day

Pique Action and EARTHDAY.ORG are announcing a strategic partnership as part of the ‘Invest In Our Planet’ theme for Earth Day 2022. EARTHDAY.ORG will share clips from Pique Action’s premiere series, NextNow. These micro-documentaries highlight different climate challenges and how innovative organizations are working to solve them.

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Tyler Steinhardt Tyler Steinhardt

Announcing 16 Climate Creators to Watch in 2022

A wave of climate change educators and communicators are using social media to combat misinformation and inspire action. Pique Action and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have teamed up to release their list of 16 Climate Content Creators to Watch in 2022.

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