Suzy Amis Cameron receives Environmental Hero Award at Earth Day Festival

Suzy Amis Cameron received the 2019 Environmental Hero Award at the annual Earth Day Festival in Santa Barbara.

The event is organized by The Community Environmental Council.

The environmental activist and author was chosen in part for her advocacy for a plant-based diet.

Her husband, filmmaker James Cameron, presented her with the award on the main stage at Alameda Park on Saturday.

He accepted the Environmental Hero Award back in 2010.

“She is absolutely an environmental hero,” he said backstage to NewsChannel 3. “She’s got so many projects. She is so dedicated.”

Suzy Amis Cameron convinced her husband to adopt a plant-based diet after seeing a documentary called Forks Over Knives.

She also wrote a book called “Changing the World By Changing One Meal A Day,” where she explains how eating just one plant-based meal a day can make a huge impact.

“A lot of people don’t realize that every single time you sit down to eat, you as an individual can make a difference. One person changing one of their meals to a plant-based meal for one year saves 200,000 gallons of water and the carbon equivalent of driving from LA to New York,” she said.

The couple believes it’s one small way to help positively impact the environment.

“If we don’t it won’t matter if we have electric cars. It won’t matter if we have eco-clothes. It won’t matter if we are healthy if we don’t have a planet to live on,” she said.