Comcast: Sustainability Takes Flight in Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’
The team wanted to make the film as environmentally sustainable as possible, both behind the scenes and on screen, and that’s just what they did.
These efforts and more earned Nope a Gold Seal from the Environmental Media Association, which recognizes behind the scenes sustainability initiatives.
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Vegnews.com: Billie Eilish and Mom Maggie Baird to Receive Environmental Award for Vegan Work
This fall, the Environmental Media Association will honor mother-daughter duo Maggie Baird and Billie Eilish for their vegan advocacy as it applies to mitigating the climate crisis.
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Yahoo!: Billie Eilish and Mother Maggie Baird to Be Honored at EMA Awards for Environmental Efforts
The duo will receive the EMA Missions in Music Award at the Oct. 8 event "for their incredible work as role models for sustainable behaviors.”
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Billboard: Billie Eilish & Mom Maggie Baird to Be Honored at EMA Awards for Environmental Efforts
The duo will receive the EMA Missions in Music Award at the Oct. 8 event "for their incredible work as role models for sustainable behaviors.”
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Variety: Billie Eilish and Her Mother Maggie Baird to Be Honored at Environmental Media Association Awards
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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THR: Billie Eilish & Mother Maggie Baird, and EMA Board Member Nikki Reed to Be Honored at EMA Awards
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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Ethos: They Brought Sustainability to Social Media. Now, Gen Z Is Coming for Hollywood.
“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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Eden Magazine: The 5th Annual IMPACT Summit
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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Greenmatters.com: Why Horror Director Eli Roth Is Protesting a Florida Shark Hunting Tournament
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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GH: '9-1-1: Lone Star' Fans Are Melting After Seeing Ronen Rubinstein’s Instagram in the Ocean
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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Voices: Why America actually has reason to be cheerful about this July 4
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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aol.com: What Clean Fashion Says About Supreme Court EPA Ruling
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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parents.com: Lance Bass Says Parents May Want To Slap Him for Saying That Raising Twins Has Been Easier Than He Thought
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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nbcuniversal.com: Behind-the-Scenes Sustainability for ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’
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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WWD: Can Influencers Flip Climate Change’s Unglamorous View?
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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THR: Eli Roth, Fran Drescher and More Urge Hollywood to Prioritize Environmental Issues at Hollywood Reporter/EMA Sustainability Event
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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The Hollywood Reporter’s Sustainability Issue: Creating Hollywood’s Greener Future
"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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THR: Cannes Puts a Bigger Spotlight on Sustainability
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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Newsweek: Congress Must Keep Pushing for Bold Federal Climate Legislation | Opinion
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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THR: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed Norton Advocate for CA Solar Incentives
A new proposal from the California Public Utilities Commission would add a monthly fee for rooftop solar customers if approved.
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