NBCUniversal Takes Home 59 Environmental Media Association Green Seals, Most-Ever in Company History
October 31, 2022
NBCUniversal had another record-setting year at the 2022 Environmental Media Awards – an annual celebration of sustainable production and environmental messaging in the media, hosted by the Environmental Media Association.
EMA Green and Gold Seals were awarded to 59 NBCUniversal television and feature film productions – the most awarded to NBCUniversal to date, up from 46 in 2021. The EMA Green Seal program recognizes progress in sustainable production practices, including fuel reduction, reuse and recycling, sustainable building materials, LED lighting, food donations and more.
In addition to sustainable production accolades, NBCUniversal took home the award for reality television with The End Is Nye: The Volcano Paradox from Universal Television Alternative Studio and UCP, divisions of Universal Studio Group, and Fuzzy Door. The show, which recently premiered on Peacock, is structured as a six-part docuseries, with Seth MacFarlane serving as executive producer.
Other NBCUniversal nominees recognized for environmental messaging included Jurassic World Dominion, Saturday Night Live, and Home Sweet Home.
Below is the complete list of the NBCUniversal 2022 EMA Green and Gold Seal recipients. These productions were avid participants in the NBCUniversal Sustainable Production Program, an initiative launched in 2009 that is dedicated to reducing the environmental impact on film and television productions.
- Universal Pictures: Bros, Cocaine Bear, Fast X*, Oppenheimer, Renfield*, She Said*, Shooting Stars*, Strays, Ticket to Paradise*, Violent Night
- Focus Features: Polite Society*, Tár*
- Universal Television: American Auto, Bel-Air, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Blockbuster*, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med*, Chicago P.D.*, The Equalizer, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Girls5eva, Grand Crew, Hacks*, Harlem, Kenan, Killing It, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Law & Order, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Little America*, Loot, The Calling, Mr. Mayor*, Never Have I Ever*, New Amsterdam, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin*, Untitled. Shea Serrano Project, Rutherford Falls*, Saturday Night Live, Schmigadoon!*, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Young Rock
- Universal Content Productions: Angelyne, Candy, Chucky*, The Girl from Plainville*, Joe vs. Carole*, One of Us Is Lying*, Queer as Folk, Resident Alien*, The Resort
- Universal Television Alternative Studio: The End is Nye*, That’s My Jam
- NBCUniversal Syndication Studios: Access Hollywood, The Kelly Clarkson Show
*EMA Gold Seal winners, a higher tiered recognition
