| January 5th, 2012 | April 30 – May 1, 2012
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A blended conference dedicated to providing tangible, practical strategies to implementing greener theater practices, ensuring theaters remain a vital part of our community.
Early bird discount through December 31 Discounts for members of MTA, TCG, and CSPA Register now Sponsor the SIT
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| December 5th, 2011 | The 17th UN negotiations to try and limit the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions and potentially catastrophic climate change began on 28th November, in Durban South Africa. Since the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1995, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC have been meeting annually to assess progress in dealing
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| July 30th, 2011 | Arcola Theatre, in association with the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, is connected with Growing Communities, an organisation that deals with the distribution of local grown produce. Growing Communities is a social business which runs community-led box schemes which can be collected from various pick-up points in Hackney, and is all local, fresh vegetables! As with
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| May 29th, 2011 | We are working with Julies Bicycle to monitor our carbon emissions using their Industry Green Tool, which involves entering figures for our consumption of electricity, water, and consumables as well as figures on staff and audience travel in to their website on a monthly basis. April was the first month in out new building
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| February 26th, 2011 | Sustainability embodies many facets; entwined in the common strands of energy and water efficiency and cutting carbon emissions sits food. As a nation a lot of the food we consume is non-seasonal and has to be imported. This has a tremendous impact on the environment through transportation pollution from increased food miles. We could easily
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| July 4th, 2010 | Reprinted from The Guardian: “Green Dreams: How Can Theatre Cut Its Carbon Emissions?” by Chris Wilkinson, June 29, 2010
As the financial climate gets ever chillier, much has been said about the need for theatre companies to band together if they are to survive the coming cuts. So it is good to see
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| May 16th, 2010 |
Rem Koolhaass architectural practice OMA has created an audacious design for an Europe-wide power network tapping into the different regions various renewable energy capabilities. Commissioned by the European Climate Foundation, the proposal claims it would cut carbon emissions in Europe by 80% by 2050. OMAs proposal also cheekily redraws the map of Europe
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| January 10th, 2010 | A Comparative Look at Worldwide Cultural Policies for Green Events
by Sam Goldblatt
as published in the CSPA Quaterly/Fall 2009
In the Fall of 2008, London and New York, the two greatest theatre cities of the western world, simultaneously announced campaigns for reducing the negative environmental impacts of the respective theatre industries in the
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| October 25th, 2009 | A new song has been recorded by some of the biggest stars of music and film to support a global climate change campaign. The project is part of the tck tck tck campaign, which is raising awareness of the need to combat rising carbon emissions levels. This is particularly vital in
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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