Mayor Bloomberg Stars In “Broadway Goes Green”

Live Design: "Mayor Bloomberg pointed out how appropriate it was to hold Broadway’s “green awakening” on the stage of Spring Awakening as part of the city’s overall commitment to a “greener, greater New York, and to turning the Great White Way green.” The 39 Broadway theatres have engaged to help cut the city’s carbon footprint by 30% by the year 2030 as part of PlaNYC (in NYC only 20% of the problem comes from transportation, the other 80% from buildings which need to be made more energy efficient and less polluting). Theatres have begun the process by changing over 10,000 marquee and lobby lights to low-energy lamps and compact fluorescents, and recycling as much as possible, even the discarded Palybills. “Broadway’s stages fuel dreams and help fuel the city’s ecomony,” said the mayor."