“What wakes me up every day? Feeling a great urgency and responsibility to make the world a better place for all of our children and future generations.”
Author, Environmental Leader, Business Pioneer, Mother
For 30 years, I’ve dedicated myself to learning all I can about how to best care for our wild, living planet. The more I’ve discovered over the years, the more I realize how our health and actions are intimately intertwined with the Earth. This has led me to want to do everything in my power to understand and champion sustainable values, from what we wear, to how we teach our children, to the food we eat.
I’m particularly passionate — okay some might say obsessed! — with plant-based foods as a solution for climate change. It started when MUSE School became the first school in the country to serve a 100% plant-based lunch program! Then I wrote the book, The OMD Plan, and founded the OMD movement to inspire and support people eating at least one plant-based meal a day. Because my mission is to ensure that all children have a thriving planet to live on, OMD also works to equitably increase access to plant-based food at schools, restaurants and businesses — one bite, one meal, one menu at a time.
The OMD Plan
Change the World by Changing One Meal a Day.
In The OMD Plan, Suzy explains how we can live healthier and heal the planet, starting with swapping out at least one meat and dairy-based meal to one plant-based meal a day. Initiated at MUSE School, the first plant-based school in the country, The OMD Plan makes it possible for anyone to reverse climate change while embracing a healthier lifestyle — supported by the latest nutrition research and environmental science. This one simple step helps you lose weight, reverse chronic health concerns, improve overall well being, and slash your environmental “foodprint” in half. Featuring over 50 delicious recipes and complete with inspiring success stories, shopping lists and meal plans, The OMD Plan is an all-in-one resource for anyone who wants to take care of their body and our beautiful plant at the same time, without giving up the foods they love and enjoy. With a foreword by Dr. Dean Ornish.
The OMD Plan featured on Oprah’s Supersoul Conversations
Oprah Winfrey sits down in her vegetable garden with environmental activist, actress and author Suzy Amis Cameron. They discuss Suzy’s new book, The OMD Plan, where she asks readers to commit to one plant-based meal a day to help save the planet and improve health. Watch the conversation here.
— Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceSuzy Amis Cameron provides her readers with all manner of tips and tricks to create delicious recipes that will benefit their health and also that of the natural world.
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About Suzy Amis Cameron
A noted environmental leader, business pioneer, mom of five and grandma, Suzy Amis Cameron is committed to caring for our wild, living Earth. In her role as CEO and Founder of Inside Out LLC, she leads a global team of changemakers working at the intersection of food, fashion, media and education to find new and better ways to bring game changing solutions to market. Her ethos is built around a ‘new way’ of finding collective, designing solutions that balance life with ‘humans being’, with the intention, always, of driving imagination and thoughtful impact.
She is the author of The OMD Plan: Swap One Meal a Day to Save your Health and Save the Planet (Simon & Schuster) and the founder of the OMD Movement, an advocacy group dedicated to transforming eating habits and expanding access to climate-friendly food for all.
In 2006, she founded MUSE Global School, with her sister, Rebecca Amis. MUSE is the first school (ECE-12th grade) in the United States to be 100% solar powered, zero waste, and with a 100% organic, plant-based lunch program. Based on MUSE’s values and curriculum, MUSE Global was launched in 2018 to franchise the school worldwide. As a solution to COVID-19, Suzy founded MUSE Virtual, a holistic, K-12 online learning platform providing interactive, innovative education to students across the world.
Suzy serves on the boards of three impactful organizations. She is a board member at LIVEKINDLY, which is dedicated to fostering positive change in the world by promoting humanity and sustainability. Additionally, Suzy serves on the Mission Board for IMAGINE, where she collaborates with CEOs striving to transform their companies into sustainable business beacons. She also contributes her expertise to Carnegie Learning, an organization committed to preparing students for long-term success.
Additionally, she is co-founder of the plant-based ventures, Verdient Foods, Cameron Family Farms, Food Forest Organics and Plant Power Task Force.
In 2009, she launched Red Carpet Green Dress, a global sustainable fashion campaign showcasing environmentally responsible fashions in partnership with The Oscars. Beyond the red carpet, RCGD has also created its own fabrics and textiles.
Suzy is an Executive Producer of The Game Changers, a documentary on world-class plant-based athletes, MILKED, a documentary that exposes the whitewash of New Zealand’s multi-billion-dollar dairy industry, JUNK, which was filmed across six countries to tell the stories of people and places negatively impacted by the fashion industry along with other film projects currently being produced.
Formerly, as an actor, she was featured in more than 25 films, including The Usual Suspects and Titanic.
Initiatives
The OMD Movement is ambitious–and that’s because we believe in (and desperately need) big, exciting change. For the OMD Movement, that opportunity for change is at the intersection of food, health and the environment. From heart disease to climate change, there’s no shortage of research and science that shows us how devastating meat and dairy is for our bodies and the Earth. The OMD Movement is about resourcing individuals — with tools, encouragement and real talk — to migrate to climate-friendly, plant-based diets. The OMD Movement is also about system change — about expanding access and making a great case for schools, businesses, restaurants and communities to move towards more plant-based options. Take our OMD Pledge, download our healthy school lunch or restaurant toolkits, check out our pilot program in North Carolina, or peruse our blogs for recipes, tips, stories of food justice movers and shakers, health advice and more—all at the OMD website.
Born out of OMD, Suzy set her sights on food production—and creating delicious and convenient food to help people everywhere. Suzy initiated a seed-to-fork approach, which led to the formation of a vertically-integrated food company, from the development of seeds, the farming of ingredients, the processing of proteins and the advent of a holistic, new food company: OMD Foods.
Founded in 2006, MUSE Global School is located in Calabasas, California offering Early Childhood Education through 12th grade in-person learning. This innovative, holistic, private school was created with the mission to inspire and prepare young people to live consciously with themselves, one another, and the planet.
MUSE Virtual is inspired by MUSE School CA. MUSE School, located in Calabasas, California, is an internationally recognized, award-winning school, a high-performance learning lab that focuses on eco-literacy and serves as a beacon of sustainable living and design founded in 2006 by Suzy Amis Cameron and her husband, James Cameron. Throughout its journey over the last 15 years, the mission and innovative educational philosophy of MUSE School is now accessible to students everywhere. As a K-12 school, MUSE School drew national and worldwide recognition for its innovative approach to education, fostering graduates who become bold leaders who are engaged with the world around them.
Plant Power Task Force (PPTF) is focused on showing the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and the environment. Founded in 2014 by Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron in partnership with the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation, PPTF supported the first multi-country studies on global diets and climate change by the independent U.K.-based think tank, Chatham House: Livestock—Climate Change’s Forgotten Sector and Changing Climate, Changing Diets. PPTF also spearheaded the My Plate, My Planet initiative, representing over 200 leading environmental and health organizations, in support of the historic opportunity to link food and the environment in the 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Currently, Plant Power Task Force is supporting media and communications work to increase awareness on the impact of global meat consumption and promote plant-based food solutions to climate change. The Plant Power Task Force media library will be launched in Fall 2018.
Red Carpet Green Dress was founded in 2009 by Suzy Amis Cameron to raise awareness of the devastating impact of the fashion industry on the environment. Amis Cameron seized the moment, with the global success of the movie Avatar, created by her husband James Cameron, and chose the Academy Awards as a launch pad for Red Carpet Green Dress. For six years running, the positive fashion campaign and design contest has challenged designers and students worldwide to create an Oscar-worthy dress and tuxedo using environmentally and socially responsible fabrics. Since its inception, the winning designs have been worn by celebrities, graced the Academy Awards and been featured extensively in the international press.
Suzy’s Blog
Here’s how to live a healthy, longer life
Animal agriculture is choking the earth and making us sick. We must act now
The day my food world turned upside down
Fierce love for the planet? Step up to your plate
Protecting wildlife, one bite at a time
Why I only wear green on the red carpet
Calling all world leaders! Please help us change what is on the world’s plate
Suzy in the Press
Suzy is regularly featured in the media talking about the environment, plant-based eating, sustainable fashion, raising conscious children–and the projects and organizations that put these ideas and passions into practice.
Events
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