From battery-powered sets to cutting red meat from craft service, how Hollywood is reducing its carbon footprint
will become the first studio to install solar power panels, developed by tech proprietor SunPower, on each of its soundstages — a total of 1.6 million megawatts of power that will offset 8% of the studio’s electricity use, the studio tells. In the first year of installation, the panels will conserve the equivalent of 1,075 metric tons of carbon dioxide, Sony says.
Sony also shot the first film to exclusively use LED bulbs to light scenes with 2012’s “Think Like a Man,” starring Gabrielle Union and Taraji P. Henson. Numerous production and sustainability executives tellthat in the years since that film, LED has been perfected and seamlessly integrated into filmmaking. The bulbs are said to be 90% more energy efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs.
“We have groups that do writers’ room and production education on where and how to include sustainable practices like characters using reusable bottles,” says Rego. “We try to place recycling signs and other visual cues anywhere we can in a scene, like on taxi tops and outdoor advertising.” “When you throw food away into a landfill, it decomposes as methane — it’s a very potent greenhouse gas that’s much stronger than carbon,” she explains. In 2017, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that 6.7% of all global greenhouse gases come from food waste.film and TV productions in 13 cities donated more than 43,000 pounds of excess food last year.
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