Leverage the digital world

Establish an online collaborative workspace for each production:

Use for all aspects of preproduction, production, and postproduction

Features can include online meetings, file sharing, streaming, interactive post sessions, etc.

Reduce travel, paper, courier services, and high-value time for activities like script, location planning, circulation of call sheets, viewing dailies, editing sessions, approvals, etc.

Use digital acquisition, communication, and archiving:

Capture images in digital media instead of film negative to reduce the use of chemicals, film base, and storage of film elements.

Recycle and reuse digital acquisition stock and postproduction drives after content is transferred to asset management.

Share assets digitally. Where not possible, minimize energy/carbon impact pf transportation, use recycled/recyclable packaging.

Use Vertatique's practices for green computing and e-devices.

Implement sustainable stage and set practices

Encourage/reward suppliers to adopt meaningful sustainability programs.

Use rental houses for props and wardrobe to eliminate unnecessary purchases and disposal. Donate purchased props and wardrobe to humanitarian non-profits.

Avoid using toxic materials and tropical woods (e.g. Lauan board) to build sets. Reuse salvageable materials and set pieces on other productions and/or donate materials to housing non-profits.

Implement sustainable location practices

Use as many local directors, production companies, and crew as possible.

Encourage/reward crew to use public transportation to travel to location/studio/post house. Provide car pools or bus transportation from a public transportation hub to location/facility.

Seek out local service providers with meaningful sustainability programs.

Work with caterers and craft services that use locally or organically grown produce and donate leftover food to local food banks or charity kitchens.

Reduce the use of paper, Styrofoam, and other disposables by encouraging/rewarding crew to bring their own mugs/cups/bottles. Replace plastic water bottles with a 5-gallon water dispenser and individual soda cans with 2-liter bottles.

Provide for recycling on each location.

Utilize as much energy efficient lighting equipment as possible.

Use as many hybrid and alternate fuel vehicles as possible.

Encourage/reward “take only pictures, leave only footprints” practices at outdoor locations.

Use energy from renewable sources where you can; consider carbon offsets where you cannot.