Máximo Mazzocco is a Pangeist and a socio-environmental entrepeneur with more than 15 years of experience working in the sustainability world. He is the founder and CEO of EcoNews, the socio-environmental media outlet with more organic in the Spanish-speaking world (Q1 2025: 160 million organic views across all platforms) and he is the founder and managing director of Eco House Global, an Action for Sustainability youth-led non profit organization specialized in education, politics, communication, consultancy and ecological restoration. Born in Argentina, has projects in Latin America and other regions. From 2016 to 2020, its “Agents of Change” volunteer program made EHG one of the youth-led movements with the highest amount of volunteers in Latin America (a project then replicated by dozens of partner organizations). Countless stories, experiences, attempts, laughs, embraces, and seeds that transcend the individual and flourish in the collective. Till 2021, EHG operated more than 40 programs, several of them recognized internationally. Currently, the organization is focused on socio-environmental education and ecological restoration proyects.

Declared Pangeist, he was a UNDP Youth Global Leader -now UNDP G17 Alumni- and he is an Active Member of Kay Pacha’s Order, a group dedicated to initiating, accelerating, and/or managing impact-driven initiatives. In 2019, he was declared as an “Outstanding Personality” by the Buenos Aires City and as an “Outstanding Young Man” by JCI International. Author of “Apuntes de un ambientalista: hacia una filosofía para la sostenibilidad” (Penguin Random House), best-seller of the category, he is a Youth Climate Justice Fund Steering Committee Member (1st Cohort) & New Zero World Youth Council Member (1st Cohort). P.E.A. Award 2024 winner for “tireless and inspiring environmental efforts”. Youth Delegate in COP25, Pre-COP & COP26, COP27, COP28, Stockholm +50, UN Climate Summit NY 2019 and the historical Escazú COP1. Coordinator in Youth4Climate 2021 (Y4C), member of the organizing committee in Y4C 2022 and co-organizer of RCOY LAC 2021, RCOY LAT 2022 & 2023. Nonpartisan socio-environmental advisor to dozens of politicians, entrepreneurs, CSO, business leaders. SDG Promoter with active presence in the mainstream media. Creator and co-creator of several youth initiatives, organizations, programs, campaigns and networks. Fellow of the Climate Justice – Just Transition (CJ-JT) Donor Collaborative 2023 (1st Cohort). Primer mover in developing the School Network for Sustainable Development, the Environmental Library, Datasa.org (SocioEnvironmental Database), the SocioEnvironmental University, among other notable initiatives for spanish speakers. Recognized as one of the 100 Latinos most committed to Climate Action in 2021 & 2022 (Sachama). Creative Director with extense experience in socio-environmental campaigns.

Activist of animal and biodiversity rights since 17 years old, his academic studies include environmental science, business administration, philosophy and climate change. During 2020-21 he experienced a heavy oncological process, which he considers “the most enriching adventure of his life”. International conferencist in more than 500 events during the past years, he have shared panels with high level authorities from all around the world. Writer and director of “Buscando a las toninas”, an independent environmental documentary with great repercussion in 2019-2020, nationally awarded. Jury in more than 30 national and international competitions on various topics related to sustainability. His love for animals led him to follow a plant-based diet since more than 10 years.

It is important to note that all the work he has done for, with and from Eco House Global has been on a volunteer basis. During 2018, 2019 and 2020 he lived at the organization’s headquarters with the aim of being available 24 hours a day to help. There, beyond the daily work with hundreds of volunteers, he interacted with more than 500 international guest-volunteers, who stayed in the historic house of Arévalo 1557, located in the well-known neighborhood of Palermo, Bs. As., Argentina.

From 2007 to 2022, his personal mission was 1) to bring the socio-environmental agenda to the forefront of political, public, and private spheres, making it a cross-cutting priority capable of transforming culture, values, and the ways we inhabit the world; and 2) to connect thousands of people around this agenda in order to consolidate a self-sustaining, autonomous, and plural movement capable of staying alive over time. Thereby, he directly participated in the approval of more than 40 socio-environmental laws in Argentina (including national, provincial and municipal), actively intervened to generate more than 20 Youth Councils in organizations and companies with a global impact, organized digital communication campaigns with millions of users reached, and worked across education, nonpartisan politics, consulting, civil society, the international agenda, grassroots action, entrepreneurship, social movements, youth, science, and sports. Since 2022, engaged in reflection, deconstruction, and the regeneration of meaning to move toward new paths.

In short, he works to make the well-being of humans and all life forms a guiding force in how we exist together.

Máximo Mazzocco is a Pangeist and a socio-environmental entrepeneur with more than 15 years of experience working in the sustainability world. He is Founder of EcoNews and Eco House Global. Also, he is an Active Member of Kay Pacha’s Order, a Steering Committee Member of the Youth Climate Justice Fund and a UNDP G17 Alumni (United Nations Development Program). Besides that, he is a nonpartisan socio-environmental advisor to dozens of politicians, entrepreneurs, CSO, business leaders, and co-creator of several initiatives and networks.