While many stars make no secret of championing their environmental efforts, the film and television industry as a whole has lagged behind and still maintains a massive carbon footprint. And while many production companies are working hard to reduce waste and energy consumption at their studios and offices, the biggest waste tends to take place on location. Film and TV producer Judith James writes about the excesses in Traction, an online publication for women in Hollywood:
Consider how much fuel we use. Generators, night shoots, ‘distant locations,’ trucks per shoot, idling trucks, moving cranes, moving everything, people, wardrobe, grip equipment, out to the set and back, move locations, fly crews and helicopters.
In 2007 major studios, including Fox, Disney, Paramount, NBC, and CBS redirected 20,862 tons of studio sets and other solid waste that would have gone to landfills, and instead reused and recycled the materials, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. This combined reduction of waste eliminated
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In today’s segment of “What’s Going On in the City Andy Lives in,” we find ourselves in Chicago, Illinois, where Mayor Richard Daley (and yes, it is illegal to be Mayor of Chicago and not be named Daley) is spearheading an initiative to make the city one of the greenest in the country. 
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Individual, community and corporate efforts to better the environment are necessary and effective, but solutions for our environmental and energy crises have to come from systematic changes in our political system too. Want to know what’s going on behind the closed doors of those mysterious white buildings? Check out the week in green politics, and see for yourself:
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Want to “Ëœtake a bite’ out of climate change? Start with what’s on the end of your fork, says 
Eighteen states sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday for failing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles. The suit comes one year after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision outlining that the EPA had the power to limit said emissions under the Clean Air Act. In addition to these 18 states, 3 cities and 11 environmental organizations have also signed onto the suit.