Green Production Helping the Bottom Line

For most facets of American life, a person can opt to go green – yet film sets, although starting to make the shift towards sustainability, are only in their beginning stages of green production regardless of the costs savings.

In every entertainment budget there is a line item for waste, but not for sorted waste management that accounts for compostable materials and recycling. Budgets don't account for crew members who assess production plans and prevent waste. Yet using less materials, reusing more, and repurposing used materials costs less money than purchasing new resources.

Eco-Friendly Transportation

When you have big plans and are considering various ways to travel, you don't want to take the decision lightly. Whether it's a corporate gathering or get together with family and friends, the importance of getting from one point to the next remains the same. This is especially true if you're somebody who is compassionate about leading a greener lifestyle! Think about it. You come up with a list of great destinations, but your own vehicle just doesn't rise to the level you need.

What should be your criteria when looking into a way to travel? Have you only considered price? What about the impact your trip is going to have on the environment?

Sacramento Airport's Environmentally Sustainable Terminal B

UC Davis Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester

The UC Davis Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester turns food waste into renewable biogas. The facility can handle 50 tons of organic waste per day. A three-stage thermophilic anaerobic digestion system is used with a total working volume of 450,000 gallons. The facility has four California Air Resources Board approved 200 kW microturbines and a 125 kW Rankine-cycle engine-generator for converting waste heat from the microturbines into additional electricity. Approximately 690 kW of the electrical generation capacity is provided by biogas generated at the facility with an additional 235 kW of capacity from landfill gas.

UC Davis Solar Farm

UC Davis solar farm. The 16.3 megawatt SunPower solar power plant generates 14 percent of UC Davis' electricity, reducing the university's carbon footprint by 9 percent. The largest solar power farm on a university campus in the nation sits on 62 acres on the south end of campus.

Electric bus at SEJ conference

Zero emissions electric bus parked outside of Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Sacramento. Chinese electric bus and electric truck maker BYD Auto is planning a major expansion in California. The Lancaster manufacturing plant will grow to 37,000 square metres, increase its employees from 300 to 1,000, and turn out 1,000 vehicles a year.

Santa Monica Bike Share

The Los Angeles region is behind other cities when it comes to bike sharing, but the City of Angels is starting to catch up, with Metro's downtown bike sharing program and Santa Monica's Breeze bike sharing scheme. Long Beach also has a bike sharing program called Long Beach Bike Share.