PLANT ONE ON ME
Plant One On Me’s mission is to bring people closer to plants by bringing plants closer to them through engaging, entertaining, and educational content. Some of the features of the channel are below and we’d love for you to help us grow by becoming a Sustaining Member too! Visit the channel here.
FLOCK
Flock covers a range of holistic topics in the Finger Lakes Community of New York, like communal living, gardening, agroforestry, permaculture, farming, construction, homesteading, handcrafting, wildcrafting, foraging and more. Visit the channel here.
PODCAST
Having launched in April 2023, Bad Seeds explores a variety of cases involving illegal plant poaching—from the US Fish and Wildlife catching obsessives stealing cacti to the Gibson Guitar lawsuit when the company purchased illegally harvested wood from Madagascar. Along with telling these stories, the show also focuses on the larger environmental impact of plant smuggling.
FILMS
I have had the pleasure of working on both sides of the camera—writing, directing, producing, hosting and narrating. Here's a selection of some of my work.
eXtinction is an environmental art short that brings together powerful storytelling and stirring imagery. It reveals that the most pressing environmental issues are not happening thousands of years from now, but are in fact happening within our lifetime — and specifically, on the timeline of one young woman’s life, from birth to death. CLAYTON HASKELL (director) takes viewers on a visually stunning journey through space and time, while SUMMER RAYNE OAKES (Producer/Writer/Actress) breathes fervent passion and emotion to the piece through her own personal story and life. eXtinction highlights ten of the most pressing environmental issues in the world and it’s up to all of us to take action. Visit the website http://extinctionfilm.tumblr.com/impact to find out how you can make a difference.
Between beauty and simplicity, Photographer John F. Cooper speaks about the creation of the Organic Portraits Project benefiting Rainforest Action Network's Protect-an-Acre Program. Featuring: Summer Rayne Oakes, Shannon Shiang. Produced by ABOVE LIVE. Directed by: Clayton Haskell.
A short film on the communion between one human and her plants.
In this short film produced by Above, Summer Rayne Oakes, Wade Davis and Oscar Dennis discuss the issues around the conservation and preservation of the Sacred Headwaters on the alpine-arctic border of British Columbia. Cinematography: Clayton Haskell. For more information on conserving the Sacred Headwaters, please visit: www.sacredheadwaters.com In a rugged knot of mountains in the remote reaches of northern British Columbia lies a stunningly beautiful valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the southern edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness, the Serengeti of Canada, are born in remarkably close proximity three of Canada's most important salmon rivers, the Stikine, Skeena and the Nass. In a long day, perhaps two, it is possible to walk through open meadows, following the tracks of grizzly, caribou and wolf, and drink from the very sources of the three rivers that inspired so many of the great cultures of the Pacific Northwest, the Gitxsan and Wet'sutwet'en, the Carrier and Sekani, the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Tahltan, Haisla and Tlinglit. Keep on for another three days and you'll reach the origins of the Finlay, headwaters of the MacKenzie, Canada's greatest river of all. - words by Wade Davis, Anthropologist and Author.
Short film produced. shot, and directed by filmmaker Clayton Haskell for ABOVE magazine, featuring the Summer Rayne Oakes bee shoot at the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, Domincan Republic. Topic conceived by Summer Rayne Oakes as an artistic awareness tool to get the word out about Colony Collapse Disorder. Music by Moby. The short film was shot on RED ONE 1781 with a set of Zeiss ZF (nikon mount) primes and a Tokina 11-16mm. This was a one man band of a crew, run and gun guerrilla production. Hope you enjoy.
COMMERCIALS
Summer Rayne Oakes, model and sustainability consultant for Aveeno's Smart Essentials collection and the Be An Active Naturals campaign.
A new commercial for the latest luxe, environmentally-conscious bedding line. Coming this April!
Giving up sugar or reducing it in our diet can be a challenge, but it's empowering coming to terms with our sweet tooth and learning effective ways to combat it. If you're seeking a healthier habit this New Year, then consider joining us for CORE7, SugarDetox.Me's 7-day guided journey through a sugar cleanse. The step-by-step program helps you understand how sugar may be affecting you and gives you the basic foundation for a healthier life. Program launches January 22 - 28th, 2016. Reserve your spot here: http://www.sugardetox.me/core7/core7-sugar-detox Thank you credits: Production: Sander van Dijk Illustration Style: Ian Sigmon Music: https://friendshippark.bandcamp.com
New commercial from Portico Home:
A look at the eco and eco by Summer Rayne Oakes collection of sunglasses and optics.
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at a photo shoot with Summer Rayne Oakes, model-activist and Payless’ environmental consultant, for zoe & zac, a new environmentally-preferable brand of shoes and accessories available exclusively at Payless.
ON SALE FROM APRIL 8, 2015-MAY 8, 2015. I've partnered with Conscious Box to hand-select 10 items for a Limited Edition Sugar Detox Survival Kit. Last year I set out on a journey to see if I could break my reliance on sugar. I always had a nagging sweet tooth and I knew it was holding me back from being the healthiest I could be. I spent close to a year studying how sugar was impacting not only my health —but the health of so many of us. When you step into a supermarket, 3 out of 4 products have added sugar — and it comes in many forms: cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, agave nectar, date sugar...the list is endless. When I learned that we have the ability to rewire our brains AND our taste buds, I began to feel empowered to make a change. What started as a personal 30-day nutritional reset from sugar soon gave way to sugardetox.me— an inspirational guide that helps take the guesswork out of the research, the recipes, risks and rewards revolving around cleansing ourselves from sugar. I hope this box is a way to help you get started on your journey towards health and well-being. WEBSITE: http://www.sugardetox.me | http://www.summerrayne.net INSTAGRAM: http://www.Instagram.com/srmanitou FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/summerrayneoakes TWITTER: http://www.Twitter.com/sroakes PINTEREST: http://www.Pinterest.com/SummerRayneLove
THE CUTTING EDGE
The Cutting Edge was a tongue-in-cheek series of sponsored content written, performed and produced in conjunction with my second company, Source4Style (now known as Le Souk).
Summer Rayne Oakes of Source4Style explores how much silk a silkworm silks in THE CUTTING EDGE: Sustainable Design News in 60 Seconds (or something like that).
Summer Rayne Oakes of Source4Style explores how to milk a spider in THE CUTTING EDGE: Sustainable Design News in 60 Seconds (or something like that).
Summer Rayne Oakes of Source4Style explores the freakiest fashion experiments in THE CUTTING EDGE: Sustainable Design News in 60 Seconds (or something like that).
Summer Rayne Oakes of Source4Style explores how brands are cutting back on their "water weight" in this episode of THE CUTTING EDGE: Sustainable Design News in 60 Seconds (or something like that). Sponsored by: Huntsman
SPEECHES
The following is a selection of some of my talks over the years. For more information on my lectures, keynotes and discussions, visit the Speaking section of my site. (Top L - R: Green Biz Forum and SAM's Club | Bottom L - R: eXtinction private film screening at Phaidon Bookstores and ABC Continuity Forum in Miami, FL).