www.meetingsnet.com: It can be hard to talk to stakeholders and suppliers about sustainability when the terms are confusing or poorly defined. Here is a handy primer explaining 14 of the most common sustainability terms to help you have more productive conversations in the future.
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With so many environmental buzzwords being thrown around in today consumer culture it was lovely to have an article that broke down all of the common "green" terms i see as a consumer on a daily basis. Theater is an industry known for not being very green even with concepts like more eco friendly theater on the rise. As we as a theatrical industry continue to care about our environment individuals need to look critically at what they are buying and what the fancy buzzwords companies use actually mean. Something i learned reading through these articles was the difference between carbon neutral and net zero emissions in reality. Although carbon neutral as a teen explains exactly what the goal is which is have 0 net carbon emissions I often associate carbon neutral products with products that have little to no negative environmental impacts because that is how they are marketed. In reality Carbon neutral products still have other harmful byproducts that need to be kept in mind.
This was a good refresher and also taught me a few new terms! It is so important these days to ALWAYS be acting with our environment in mind. I was reminded of this on Tuesday. I had picked out a sweater with an American flag on it to go vote, but as soon as I stepped outside– I was met with the harsh reality that it was 80 degrees. I think sustainability is especially such an important topic in the theatre. We tend to be a use and then dump kind of industry, which must be very harmful on the environment seeing as a lot of woods and plastics are used. While there are obviously much more, exponentially more, harmful areas of work and life– I wonder how the theatre industry can help assist in the mission for a cooler climate and better world. And now I have a word for this: upstream solutions!
When I clicked on this article, I was worried that I was not going to know a good portion of the terms in here. I would like to say that I am conscious about sustainability and the effects that climate change has made and continues to make, but I also am not really actively thinking about it. This problem has shown itself in the TD3 project about how to make theatre be a greener place, and it is something that I have thought fairly little about in my time in theatre. While I did recognize most of these terms, it was nice to have a refresher on what certain terms really meant and also get clarification on terms that I have heard passed around but never took the time to research myself, like "sector 1/2/3." It was good to read this article and see where the gaps in my understanding of some of these terms are, but I was happy to see that maybe I'm not as far behind as I initially worried about being.
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