Merch Restock & Environmental Music Prize Winner Announced
Welcome to our wintery July update. A huge thank you to everyone who donated to our EOFY appeal, if you want to get ahead this current financial year, you can make a donation here. We’ve restocked our very popular merch store, get a tee from your fav artist before they sell out. Read on for the latest climate x music news, plus the winner of the Environmental Music Prize has been announced!
NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET MERCH RESTOCK
We’ve done a small restock of our popular NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET tees – the Koala tee, classic logo tee, and iconic brat tee.
We also have a few sizes left of our custom artist designs with Missy Higgins, Jimmy Barnes, King Stingray, The Rubens, and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, get in quick before they’re gone - these ones won’t be restocked!
The NMOADP tee is a great way to wear your values and help fund our mission to decarbonise the music industry and activate climate action. Plus, Jungle Merch is committed to planting a tree for every t-shirt purchased in collaboration with TheGoodAPI.
ENVIRONMENTAL MUSIC PRIZE WINNER - RUBY RODGERS
A huge congratulations to Ruby Rodgers who has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Environmental Music Prize for her song and music video ‘Hits The Heart’. The single was written during the filming of documentary ‘Future Council’, where Ruby joined seven other children who met with some of the world’s largest polluters and most influential companies.
On the single, Ruby says “‘Hits The Heart’ is inspired by some of the most passionate, resilient young people that I’ve ever met. It came to me after spending a month with them, and seeing the raw, crippling feelings that climate anxiety causes. And to tell the truth, it broke my heart…I wrote, about and for those 7 kids and the millions of others, for myself and our stories. A call to action, a cry for help, through song.”
The Environmental Music Prize recognises and rewards music and music videos that celebrate the beauty of nature and encourage us to protect it. The AU$20,000 prize empowers talented artists to use their voice strategically - both on and off stage. Previous winners include 'If Not Now, Then When?' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (2022) and 'Stoney Creek' by Xavier Rudd (2023). Listen/watch Ruby’s prize-winning song below.
CLIMATE X MUSIC NEWS
🪵 Uncle Jim, a Plangermairreenner man from Meenamatta Country and Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ruth Langford/Tipruthanna are calling for the protection of Law in Country and of Old Growth Forests against logging in Lutruwita/Tasmania. These forests hold the stories, Songlines, cultural heritage and identity of the First Peoples of Lutruwita. Ruth has recently given evidence in court to defend a trespass charge during a protest at a logging coupe in 2025, arguing her cultural obligations are to protect the land. Stay up to date on the case here.
🖤 NAIDOC Week may have come to a close, but supporting Blak voices doesn’t stop when the week ends. As First Nations not-for-profit Common Ground says, “storytelling through song has been central to First Nations cultures for over 80,000+ years and is still a significant way of sharing story today”. We encourage you to continue engaging with First Nations music, film, and art all year-round.
🎵 The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) will be held on 8 August 2026 at the Gardens Amphitheatre George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens. For 22 years, the NIMAs have showcased the rich musical landscape of Australia from all across the country. The Awards bring together acts who are yet to make their mark on the world alongside those who have achieved international acclaim, such as Jessica Mauboy & Barkaa. Grab your tickets here.
🪩 For Earth Night 2026, EMC Australia and Mixmag Asia hosted an online conversation on climate action in electronic music, with panelists Vicky Keeler (Strawberry Fields), Halim Ardie (Club Conscious and Day Zero), Phuong Le (Wonderfruit), and artist, DJ and broadcaster Anna Lunoe. Some key takeaways were:
- the electronic music scene already cares, however current systems don’t always make it easy,
- sustainability has to be layered into the whole business operations and culture,
- artists need systems and support, not shame.
Read the full breakdown of the event here.
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