Jonah Sachs

CEO, Free Range 

Jonah Sachs recognizes that true impact can be made by changing our consumer identities rather than just our shopping habits. As CEO and cofounder of Free Range, he is an internationally recognized storyteller, designer, and entrepreneur. Free Range is a media company that consults with social good projects to help them rebrand and retell their own core stories. Sachs has worked on viral videos like The Meatrix, focused on issues surrounding factory farming, and The Story of Stuff series, focused on the negative effects of global consumerism.

Sachs is the author of Winning the Story Wars. His interactive work has been honored with 'Best Of' awards three times at the South By Southwest interactive festival. FastCompany named him one of the 50 most influential social innovators.

Recordings

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Climate Cartoons

July 9, 2014
What’s so funny about climate change? Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’...
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Story Wars

July 10, 2012
What's more powerful in shaping human perceptions--facts or stories? Where does the truth lie, and how will we know it?