Billie Eilish and her mother Maggie Baird will be honored at this year’s EMA Awards, the Environmental Media Association announced on Monday.
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“EMA has a long history of working with dynamic young generations of talent,” Debbie Levin, EMA CEO tells Ethos via email. She says this new generation of young people is armed with more facts and more resources than any generation before them. “Gen Z is the most powerful demographic to influence the youth on a global level,” she says.
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EMA is a movement powered by celebrity role modeling, campaign work, social media messaging, year-round programs, and large scale annual events: EMA Awards/Honors Gala and EMA IMPACT Summit. EMA’s Mission is to provide a unified voice for our planet through entertainment, storytelling, and education.
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Having directed horror films including Cabin Fever and Hostel, Eli Roth is no stranger to bloody, terrifying scenes. But when it comes to real life horror, Roth has absolutely no patience — especially in regards to shark fishing. That’s why he directed the documentary Fin last year, and why he is promoting a campaign to shut down an upcoming shark killing tournament in Jupiter, Florida.
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In honor of World Oceans Day, which happened on June 8, Ronen shared an Instagram video of himself casually swimming off the coast of Camogli, Italy. Donning a pair of dark square shades and a silver chain, the Israeli-American actor gave his followers a 360-degree view of his peaceful time in the ocean before quickly dunking his head into the water. As it turns out, it had been a little bit since he took that stunning trip but he didn't miss the opportunity to relive it with his followers.
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The nation, along with what some people’s idea of what it should stand for, has had it pretty bad for some time now…What is utterly inspiring, though, is the way that people have responded at a grassroots level to these seemingly overwhelming challenges.
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A foremost proponent for environmental justice in media communications, the Environmental Media Association’s chief executive officer Debbie Levin told WWD that the decision can’t upend the ultimate power of conscious citizens.
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Entrepreneur and former *NSYNC member Lance Bass says he has a whole new perspective on life since welcoming twins—a boy named Alexander James and a girl named Violet Betty—via surrogacy with husband Michael Turchin in October 2021. Looking back at the days leading up to becoming a dad, he wishes he could tell his pre-parenthood self, "Don't freak out."
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The 2022 Focus Feature film, Downton Abbey: A New Era, embraced a host of environmental practices, including using renewable diesel in generators and vehicles, contacting vendors and suppliers to ensure they had sustainability practices in place, and using sustainable plywood for set walls. These combined measures earned the film a Gold Seal from the Environmental Media Association.
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Climate change doesn’t always make headlines the way other news does. As with public health issues like COVID-19 and abortion, Americans are often more concerned with the celebrity — be it the Heard-Depp trial, Elon Musk or President Joe Biden — topics that all tracked higher on May consumer survey data from NewsWhip and Axios.
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Pictures for the Planet event, presented by Walmart at the Environmental Media Association Impact Summit, also featured the first-ever live recording of Phil Rosenthal and David Wild's 'Naked Lunch' podcast, with guest Wolfgang Puck.
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"It’s not too late to write our own story and have a true impact on the environment — but we need to take action now," writes THR editorial director Nekesa Mumbi Moody.
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Debbie Levin has been the CEO of EMA, which links entertainment and the environmental communities with the hopes of bringing sustainability, since 2000. Levin notes that “there was no one” in the studio system designated to “greening” film sets back then. Now, each major studio has in-house departments dedicated to sustainable production.
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We are living through extremely turbulent times. The transformational change that many of us are calling for—such as a greener, cleaner future, protections from a worsening climate crisis, investments in public health and access to good-paying jobs—remain out of reach for too many Americans.
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A new proposal from the California Public Utilities Commission would add a monthly fee for rooftop solar customers if approved.
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A handful of stars got all dressed up for a night of entertainment with a focus on environmental messaging, as they attended the Environmental Media Association awards gala in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.
Held at Gearbox LA, the award show thrown by the non-profit celebrates works of art in television, film, and documentary categories that use the 'power of storytelling to call for environmental justice, climate action, and sustainability.'
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A handful of stars got all dressed up for a night of entertainment with a focus on environmental messaging, as they attended the Environmental Media Association awards gala in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.
Held at Gearbox LA, the award show thrown by the non-profit celebrates works of art in television, film, and documentary categories that use the 'power of storytelling to call for environmental justice, climate action, and sustainability.'
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Saturday night’s Environmental Media Association Awards gala celebrated this year’s film and TV that helped move the sustainability conversation forward with environmental storylines and activism behind the scenes.
Held at Gearbox L.A. and hosted by Jeff Goldblum, the show awarded prizes to Ted Lasso, No Sudden Move and Full Frontal With Samantha Bee for their contributions. Ed Begley Jr. was also honored with the EMA Lifetime Achievement Award; stylist Karla Welch and entrepreneur Sasha Markova, who together founded The Period Company, received the EMA Innovator Award; nonprofit Hip Hop Caucus got the EMA Global Justice Award and climate activist (and former presidential candidate) Tom Steyer received the EMA Ongoing Commitment Award.
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H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award is back after a Covid-19-related pause. Now in its sixth year, the fashion innovation challenge is accepting applications beginning Aug. 25.
Though previous iterations of the initiative included somewhat ambiguous guidelines related to positive global change, this year’s program has a laser-sharp focus that organizers say will help teams create an innovation that could have a major impact on the world. H&M Foundation is calling specifically for game-changing solutions that address one or several global areas: land, water, oceans, climate and biodiversity.
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Jeff Goldblum has signed on to host the 2021 Environmental Media Association(EMA) Awards gala, which will celebrate a new slate of television and film titles that address climate change, sustainability and other environmental topics.
The EMA Awards Gala will return for an in-person ceremony on Saturday, October 16 at Gearbox LA. EMA has also revealed that it will honor Ed Begley Jr. with its Lifetime Achievement Award, Hip Hop Caucus its Global Justice Award, Tom Steyer the Ongoing Commitment Award and Karla Welch and Sasha Markova the Innovator Award.
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