“We make the world we live in by the stories we tell”
Louis Fox is an author, strategist, puppeteer and trained filmmaker dedicated to looking at the world as it truly is, while also envisioning it as it could be.
Since co-founding the values-based communication firm, Free Range Studios, in 1999, he’s created some of the most successful online “cause-marketing” campaigns of all time. His work for clients like Amnesty International, The Organic Trade Association, Patagonia and Greenpeace has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, CNN, FOX News, NPR, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, The Colbert Report, and Fast Company Magazine, which named him one of the 50 most influential social innovators of 2007.
As a filmmaker, he has directed and co-written over 100 short animated and live action films. His most successful projects, The Meatrix, and the on-going Story of Stuff series, have been viewed by more than 70 million people and have garnered top honors at dozens of international film and media festivals such as The Environmental Media Awards, South By Southwest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival.
Louis’ passion for exploring “the world as it could be” has led him to study Taoist philosophy, “flow” psychology, Aikido, and the design science of “permaculture”, which is the topic of his first book, Sustainable [R]evolution – Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide, that was released in March of 2014 by North Atlantic Books and Random House.
Louis lives in the North San Francisco Bay Area but stays connected to Tacotal, the eco-village he helped co-found in Costa Rica.