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postable cutler y for catering and craft ser vice, and encourage people to bring their own silverware kits. • Local, Local, Local. Hire local, shoot local, eat local and donate local. • Compost. The majority of the waste that we produce on set can be composted — coffee filters, cups, stirrers and paper can be turned into soil. If it's not available, contact a local hauler or waste provider and encour- age them to compost. • Assign someone to be responsible for recy- cling and composting on set. Don't have one? Hire a company like EcoSet to man- age your waste • No plastic. Challenge your crew to go plas- tic free.The costume department can use the Green Garmento Bag for dry cleaning, PAs can use reuseable bags for their runs, and craft service can consider using alter- natives for their plastic pass arounds. • Good Samaritan Law — learn about the Good Samaritan Law of 1996, which pro- tects you when you are contributing to so- ciety. So caterers don't worry if someone sues you if you choose to donate food. Selman's tips for post houses: • Get a power strip. • Have your computers go to sleep mode. • Compost your food waste. • Talk to your operations manager and ask if you can have motion detector lights put in. In terms of the film versus digital debate, while most people think digital is so much greener because you aren't using a ton of chemicals, it also comes with its own environ- mental challenges, according to Selman."With digital you need air conditioners to cool down the servers, and the computers are on for long hours, working during the rendering process and editing, etc. It's a double-edged sword and you have to pick your poison. Do you want more energy costs or chemicals? It depends on the production, and it is impor- tant that we see each production having their own obstacles and circumstances. Greening should not get in the way of the production itself and most of all, be easy." R AY N A S A S L OV E Rayna Saslove, a producer of live action www.postmagazine.com February 2010 • Post 29 C ULVER CITY, CA — As Zoic Studios continues to grow, the effort to "go green" becomes more important to us all.A year ago we formed a Green Team to study the way the studio operates top to bottom. The level of consumption and potential waste produced by a staff of 150 people is astonish- ing and we saw the opportunity to produce immediate change. Our emphasis was and is on an awareness of our collective footprint on the ecology and on the individual health of the employees. In the past, pallets of food and sodas were delivered to Zoic with each item individually packaged, then boxed and wrapped again, and then all the boxes are wrapped together. Then the pallet is wrapped to keep the order together. It was just one of the details that woke us up to the waste we inadvertently contribute to on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis. So instead of ordering small items, we switched to bulk and offer snacks in large dispensers to reduce this unnecessary packaging. Then there was the water issue. Our consumption of individual water bottles was over 2,000 per month so we purchased canteens for each staff-member and switched to a filtered water system.We also changed out all paper and plastic plates, cups and utensils in favor of re-usable kitchenware. Collectively, we're committed to a healthier lifestyle.Where we once had junk food drawers and cabi- nets that rivaled a convenience store, we now purchase fresh fruits, vegetables and healthier drinks and snacks. To find out how we could conserve energy, we brought in a con- sultant from our provider, Southern California Edison, who toured the facility and made recommendations based on his audit.Addition- ally, through technology upgrades, we were able to consolidate and save power, and our tech department reused the old technology or donated what we could not reconfigure. Other small but important details include using energy efficient bulbs and changing our standard office supply orders to get materi- als from businesses that offer "green" paper goods and eco-safe cleaning products. By Kristen Branan Head of Production Zoic Studios www.zoicstudios.com Evolving to a greener workplace continued on page 38