2011 Green Day

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In its third year, LDI’s Green Day ’11 will bring the challenges and options for making the entertainment industry more sustainable into focus. Learn from a wide variety of working professionals who are bringing greener practices into their projects in a give-and-take
forum over two days.

Thursday, October 27

G01 • Getting to Carbon Zero: The Holy Grail of Sustainability
9:00am–10:30am, Room S320E
The goals of sustainability encompass many areas including resource use, health and safety, energy dependency, environmental quality and other areas, arguably the most critical challenge is our ability to reduce and eliminate the CO2 emissions associated with entertainment in all forms. Are Carbon Zero productions possible? Today? Tomorrow?

This session will focus on the following: Available (and useful) Carbon Calculators and how to best use them • Breaking carbon impact down to components of production • Venues / Facilities • Audience Impact • Scenery • Lighting / Sound / Projection • Looking at Carbon Case Studies for specific projects and sectors to draw some rules of thumb • Understanding Carbon Offsets as a way to get to Carbon Zero. • Other Carbon reducing strategies for venues and facilities

Panelists: Charlie Deull, co-chairman of The Broadway Green Alliance; Sian Alexander, associate director, Julie’s Bicycle; Katie Oman, LEED AP, Fisher Dachs Associates; Robert Usdin, LEED AP, president, Showman Fabricators

G02 • Green(er) Lighting Techniques
11:00am–12:30pm, Room S320E
Today’s solutions and fundamentals to lighting productions in a more environmentally friendly way: • How to achieve greener lighting • What to ask for when buying / specifying / using equipment to help productions be greener • Power Consumption and efficacy • RoHS • Packaging • Manufacturing Techniques • Manufacturing Location / Proximity to job site • HVAC impact *Impact on systems design • Recyclability • Obsolescence • Specific products that are currently on the market to support the goals with side-by-side comparisons of available equipment.

Panelists: Curtis Kasefang, Theatre Consultants Collaborative, LLC; Steven Cullipher, LEED AP, systems division manager, Barbizon Lighting Company; Mark London, Lighting Design Group

G03 • Green(er) Lighting Products Round-up
1:30pm–3:00pm, Room S320E
As in previous years, manufacturers will be invited in to the session to showcase their specific products and to do a shoot off of their available fixtures that offer greener solutions. Manufacturer representatives and industry professionals will be invited to join a discussion of how to have easily comparable manufacturing specs to aid users in making greener choices. Currently, there are no industry standards and this session aims to identify what standards would be beneficial to users and realistic for manufacturers to institute.

Panelists: Curtis Kasefang, Theatre Consultants Collaborative, LLC; Steven Cullipher, LEED AP, systems division manager, Barbizon Lighting Company; Bryan Raven, managing director, White Light Ltd

G04 • The Greener Facility: Going Beyond LEED
3:30pm-5:00pm, Room S320E
LEED is a great starting point for designing and building some of the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly entertainment facilities in current use. But, there is much more to operating a LEED facility responsibly besides accumulating points and credits. This session will look at several facilities (both LEED and non-LEED) and look at the best practices that each have included in their daily operations to be as environmentally responsible as
possible.

Panelists: Katie Oman, LEED AP, Fisher Dachs Associates; Denis Blout, Arup; Matt Welandar, Theatre Projects; John Shorb, Opsis Architecture.

Friday, October 28

G05 • Green Theatre Initiatives Around The World
11:00am-12:30pm, Room S320E
The road to sustainability in the entertainment industry is just beginning in many ways. Fortunately, there are many great sources of knowledge that are available to tap into in both the US and Europe. This session will explore the common approaches and differences between groups such as Julie’s Bicycle, the Broadway Green Alliance, and The Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts as well as others.

Panelists: Charlie Deull, co-chairman, Broadway Green Alliance; Sian Alexander, associate director, Julie’s Bicycle; Ian Garrett, executive director, Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts; James McKernan, professor, Department of Theatre, York University; and Kenn Watt, coordinator, Broadway Green Alliance.

G06 • Intro to Sustainability: A Primer for Those Newly Interested
1:30pm-3:00pm, Room S320E
This session is geared to those in the professional and academic worlds who need basic information on sustainability in the entertainment industry and the broad strokes including: Why the push towards greening in production and facilities • The major parts to consider in being greener • Simple steps towards greening your
operation • Available resources to help you delve deeper

Panelists: Ellen E. Jones, assistant professor, Bemidji State University; Paul Brunner, technical director, Indiana University Theatre & Drama; James McKernan, Department of Theatre, York University

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