Hunter Vaughan

Hunter Vaughan is the Environmental Media Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Vaughan’s most recent book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2019) offers an environmental counter-narrative to the history of mainstream film culture and explores the environmental ramifications of the recent transition to digital technologies and practices. He was a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow and is a founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press). He is currently Principal Investigator, with Pietari Kaapa, on the AHRC funded Global Green Media Network, co-PI on the Internet Society Foundation funded “Sustainability and the Subsea Telecommunication Cable Network” project, and on the Convening Team for a UNFCCC/UNESCO global net zero initiative for the film and television sector.