Chicago Reader: From The Bear to The Blues Brothers, Chicago is an entertainment industry town that generates an annual $700 million in economic impact across 50 wards and sustains approximately 20,000 jobs. But along with the success of jobs, money, and production comes a heaping amount of environmental waste.
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Seeing people work on sustainability initiatives such as these and ensure that they can be practically and economically implemented is fantastic to see and hear about, especially in that this is an expansion of ideas in a new environment, thus broadening these initiatives and bringing them to industries that haven’t previously been considering them. Further, the article more expansively discussing the financial considerations behind these initiatives is reassuring as it fights preconceived notions that sustainability is a fiscally bad choice. While having many upfront costs to implement, the discussion surrounding their use and implementation shows that these systems can actually be cheaper if used appropriately and under the right conditions. As technology continues to advance and production continues to get bigger and bigger with this technology, ensuring that there are individuals who are looking towards making this work sustainable to continue far into the future is great to read about.
This article was packed with information, from all of the problems within the entertainment industry to the ways they’re working to combat these issues. What I found craziest was how the entertainment industry in LA wastes more than aerospace manufacturing, clothing production, or the hotel industry. It was relieving to hear about all the ways film groups are working to help this issue, from food waste to construction waste. Especially fuel waste. I feel like that’s something that’s so often used, therefore being a topic that’s often overlooked/forgotten about. The way that there’s an initiative to develop more efficient batteries and power products really gives me hope for the future of entertainment, and it honestly opens up (what could be) a subsector of environmental problems, focusing solely on the entertainment industry and adapting products to those needs that combat issues beyond waste and pollution. This goes into fitting the needs of production, which can get tricky since there’s so many needs to fill.
This is why i love chicago!!! I feel like since we not only as a whole society but also generally just as an industry (film and entertainment industry) are so deep into late stage capitalism and are always trying to constantly produce and pump out distraction, we focus on making things quick, cheap, and not to last. This causes not only an unsustainable work ethic and work culture but also just general habits for the environment. Before reading this article i actually did not know that mach about how specifically unsustainable the film industry is other than just the assumption that it was. (anything mass produced isnt sustainable) but i didnt know how specifically how film sets produce 72 tons of food waste and that devolving film is extremely bad for the environment. Seventy freaking two tons is crazy!! I think its awesome to strive for a zero waste set. It is very ambitious, but it is definitely doable.
I’m glad to hear that the film industry in Chicago is taking steps towards more sustainable practices, you would think that film industry has nothing to do with pollution but in actuality all industries play into pollution just by varying degrees so it’s up to all of them to reduce their waste for a cleaner planet. It’s worth the money spent to make production more sustainable and I think it shows good intentions as well, allocating budget funds shows your committed to sustainability instead of you just saying that you are and calling it a day. I like that the article points out that the changes that need to happen will take time, the industry will take years most likely decades to fully change, but I’m glad some of the most important changes are happening first. I do hope we can move away from diesel soon though as that will probably contribute a lot
This is very heartening to see action being taken in the fast-paced film industry to at least try and reduce the footprint of film production and sets. Beautiful stories are being put on for the audience at home, and yet behind the camera there is trash and diesel being piled and burnt just offsite to produce the movie. With entertainment in America producing just around five percent of the Gross domestic product of the United States, it is time to start reducing the load on our environment. Seeing large scale battery trailers, food donations, and LED lights taking on otherwise wasteful practices is very exciting. This shift being taking place where there is not as much attention to emissions or people pushing for eco initiatives is what needs to happen or we are going to burnt out of home and planet. We need to expand and include these initiatives further in larger projects.
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