2009 Green Day LDI

GREEN Day: Greening in the Entertainment Industry Thursday, November 19, 2009 – Room# N322 Join LDI in going GREEN! A full day dedicated to what the industry is doing—and can do—to reduce its carbon footprint and be environmentally smart! A special full-day conference organized in conjunction with Showman Fabricators, as LDI “goes green.” Sessions open [...]

2009 Green Day

GREEN Day: Greening in the Entertainment Industry Thursday, November 19, 2009 Join LDI in going GREEN! A full day dedicated to what the industry is doing—and can do—to reduce its carbon footprint and be environmentally smart! A special full-day conference organized in conjunction with Showman Fabricators, as LDI “goes green.” Sessions open to all LDI full-conference [...]

AFLA’s 2009 Design Green Call for Entries and Scholarship

From the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles: As Renzo Piano suggests, sustainability is the 21st century order for architecture and the built environment-and when exceptional design is seamlessly integrated with new high performance standards for conservation and sustainable building practices are implemented, innovative and sophisticated solutions are the result. This evolution of form is coming [...]

Kresge Foundation Folds Green Building Initiative into Env’t Program

The Kresge Foundation has announced that it will be folding its Green Building Initiative into its existing Environment Program. Whether this was due to a downturn in funding, management consolidation, or a feeling that their efforts were being duplicated by other foundations is unknown. However, funds will remain available for theaters seeking to rebuild or [...]

Go Owls

The place where I learned my firsts about sustainability AND production in an artistic setting, Rice Univeristy, is building a new LEED certified residential Hall. While Duncan hall will never have the same history as the ol’ Will Rice College, I’m excited to see Rice on this path! View the original article from the Rice [...]

Thank Heavens for Local Law 86

This Post was originally posted to Mike Lawler’s ecoTheaer blog on July 19, 2007. We are reposting it here to share this ecoTheater classic with new readers while MIke continues to regain his health. You can read his blog about his ongoing battle with cancer, The “C” Word, by clicking here. In New York City there is [...]