RETHINK: GREEN was a huge success! It was THE green event this season, a fundraiser to help spread the Green Ambassador program to schools nationwide. David de Rothschild, Lisa Ling, Ed Begley Jr., and The Buried Life Boys were all in attendance. Read press about the event from LA Examiner here.
I did the title design for the videos projected during the awards show, which honored notable environmental leaders such as Mark Gold (Heal the Bay), Jim Moriarty (Surfrider Foundation), Matt Petersen (Global Green), and many others.
Below are sketches of the titles.
The titles were also etched onto glass bottles that served as the Green Ambassador Award.
I am so happy to have been a part of this event. The teens are a real inspiration. Most of them are the first in their families to go to college. Jordan Howard and Rudy Sanchez, who I’ve worked with many times on local advocacy campaigns, are passionate and inspired speakers. This program has given them a platform for leadership and environmental stewardship, honoring the idea that each individual “be the change.”
I visited Environmental Charter High School for the first time when we shot the video. It was brimming with creativity and life. Every corner you turn, inspirational murals line the hallways. Colorful projects fill the classrooms. The campus is lined with gardens dubbed “live vending machines” — you can pick off a tomato for lunch — and a living stream winds through through the school. Imagine having a babbling brook fill in your thoughts between algebra and world history! This may be a given in some rural schools, but to find this in concretized Los Angeles is truly neat. I know this atmosphere motivates and nurtures achievement. I felt it just as a one-day visitor.
Follow Environmental Charter High School and see how these teens grow to be tomorrow’s agents of change.
Thanks to everyone who worked on RETHINK: GREEN, and a special thanks to Juli Schulz of Agents99 for bringing me on board.
CREDITS / Title Design and Production: Katherine Nguyen / Script: Lindsey Jurca, Jordan Howard, Rudy Sanchez / Video and Editing: Mark Bella
