2025 SUMMIT ACTION HUB

Did you know that by switching 1,000 meals to Plant-Based by Default, you save 1,600 kg CO2eq — an amount of pollution equivalent to driving an average passenger vehicle 4,140 miles?! Imagine the impact if you’re doing that every single day.

Join hundreds of companies and organizations — from film protections to private corporations — who have adopted climate-smart food service.

Rare’s Entertainment Lab supports the entertainment industry to reflect the realities of our changing climate and highlight the sustainability solutions all around us. The Lab conducts a series of research efforts on audience impact, effective frameworks, climate placements, and more. Their portfolio of research projects covers the entire spectrum of climate placement: from studies that measure the impact of climate-forward film and TV content to more targeted research studying how subtle, background-placement of climate-friendly actions (e.g. plant-based diets or solar panels) can influence audience norms and behavior adoption at home.

Check out the Music Sustainability Alliance’s website, become a member, and/or sign up for their newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things music x sustainability.

Subscribe to this newsletter to get connected with a global and local network of media professionals using storytelling to spark social and environmental impact. The Scene brings you regular updates on organizations and creatives who are using their talents and platforms to create the change they want to see — from climate action to cultural innovation. Sign up to receive resources, event invites, and actionable ways to amplify your impact through narrative storytelling.

Earth Pass is a text-based platform that promotes sustainable living by amplifying earth-friendly brands. Subscribe to text and email to gain access to weekly earth-friendly deals, exclusive events, and a community of fellow planet loving people.

written and directed by GenXX members and allies to promote a healthy environment

Join the Jackson Wild Collective and attend the Jackson Wild Summit for workshops, awards, cutting-edge tools, and bold conversations that will fuel your work and your impact.

Become a Carbonauts Ambassador; start or join a Green Team at your place of work; and/or encourage your organization to run a Carbonauts sustainability workshop.

Did you know that by switching 1,000 meals to Plant-Based by Default, you save 1,600 kg CO2eq — an amount of pollution equivalent to driving an average passenger vehicle 4,140 miles?! Imagine the impact if you’re doing that every single day.

Join hundreds of companies and organizations — from film protections to private corporations — who have adopted climate-smart food service.

This foundational certification is worker-centered for a wide range of individuals across the entertainment industry – from executives to operations crew, tentpole producers to music engineers, art directors to live event personnel, and many more.

Sign the Rebuild LA SAFE petition to support a Safe, Affordable, Fast, and Electric rebuild of our communities in Altadena and Palisades.

Learn more about how ‘natural’ methane gas is actually hot for the planet and toxic for your health

Follow @intersectionalenvironmentalist on Instagram and Substack to learn more about how to ensure your advocacy is intersectional and inclusive.

Torched trains a critical eye on the civic investments and policy decisions that Los Angeles is making in preparation for its megaevent-hosting era, including the 2026 World Cup, the 2027 Super Bowl, and most notably, the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor--an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review). ​

The Ballona Wetlands Land Trust is a grassroots community organization.. Our mission is to facilitate the creation of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve into a world-class wildlife refuge and public park.

Check out this research database created by the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance in partnership with USC Public Exchange and the Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project (MIP). You can find all the latest research from the last 3-5 years exploring evidence and trends around audience demand, sustainability business levers, and the social and economic impacts of climate-related narratives.

Taking place September 19–22, 2025, the Climate Film Festival (CFF) is the largest festival of its kind in New York City, supported by the Guardian US and featuring a jury of 15 industry leaders in climate.

Join a coalition of actors, writers, directors, producers, content creators, and more in the entertainment industry committed to modeling the systemic change needed to solve the plastic pollution crisis, both on- and off-screen. If you are an active, working member of the entertainment industry show your commitment to Flip the Script on Plastics by signing the pledge.

The DGA Pro-Tips webpage is a resource open to the public that provides practical recommendations across all stages of production to enable directors and their teams to adopt environmentally sustainable best practices seamlessly into their workflows.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition and Earth Angel have teamed up to ask filmmakers to create original horror short films, up to five minutes long, that highlight the terrors of plastic pollution and its toxic effects to our bodies, our children, our pets, and our planet, while also helping to show real solutions to this real-life menace. Submissions open on July 1, 2025, and the top 5 winners will be announced Halloween 2025.

When we change the story, we change everything. Photographers Without Borders offers a variety of in-person and online courses for filmmakers, photographers, and other visual storytellers on best practices for ethical storytelling. Sign up and receive your certificate today!

Take Action on your short, indie or student film by using the PEACHY tool to make your film sustainably. You can also access signage and other resources to make your project more sustainable.

Access mentors, community events, databases and resources to help your business thrive.

Climate Designers is the global hub for designers across industries committed to using creative skills for climate action. Check out the Climate Designer Resource Library and find a Climate Designer Chapter in your city!

Every other week we host IRL events for you to meet like-minded friends and make a local impact.

Concert travel is the biggest source of live music’s carbon emissions and the biggest opportunity for collective action by the fans and the industry. Read REVERB's first-of-its kind Concert Travel Study, share the findings, and join the push for low-carbon travel options across live entertainment.

This website was designed to provide a platform for comparing the methane claims and actions of the oil and gas industry.

When film and TV leave care out of the picture, those who provide and depend on it feel invisible and alone. Putting more care on screen can change that.

In An Abolitionist’s Handbook, New York Times bestselling author, artist, and activist Patrisse Cullors charts a framework for how everyday artists, activists, and organizers can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives, and real-life anecdotes from Cullors, An Abolitionist’s Handbook asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision. Readers will learn the 12 steps to change yourself and the world.

Illegally Yours is a heartwarming, comical look at how this struggling Ecuadorian immigrant family bonded together to navigate Rafa's school life, his parents' work lives, and their shared secret life as undocumented Americans, determined to make the best of their always turbulent and sometimes dangerous American existence.

Sunrise is building a movement of young people across race and class to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. We will force the government to end the reign of fossil fuel elites, invest in Black, brown and working class communities, and create millions of good union jobs. We’re on a mission to put everyday people back in charge and build a world that works for all of us, now and for generations to come.