From Lighting & Sound America Online, November 11, 2008:
As a continuation of its green initiative, Apollo Design Technology Inc announced at the recent LDI exhibition in Las Vegas its complete process switch to laser technology for all gobo production. Starting with steel gobos in 2007, laser technology is now being used to produce Apollo glass gobos. […]

Excerpted from Lighting & Sound America Online, October 30, 2008:
New York City Councilman Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., chairman of the New York City Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Intergroup Relations, hosted a hearing this week at The New Victory Theater on 42nd Street to examine the green initiatives of cultural organizations. Cora Cahan, president of […]

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GTI and founder Gideon Banner are profiled in a feature this month’s issue of Stage Directions in “Green Support”, an article by Mike Lawler (author of the excellent Ecotheater blog).  The article can be viewed here.
Articles about GTI also appeared on the environmental news sites Grist.org (article viewable here) and Treehugger.com (article viewable here).
    
 

A MAJOR entry to the Princeton campus and community is being redesigned as a 21st-century portal with the door lodged firmly open.
At an open house for the community Wednesday, Sept. 17, Steven Holl Architects unveiled concepts for the initial academic buildings in the new arts and transit neighborhood. In addition, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & […]

Excerpted from Lighting & Sound America Online, August 13, 2008:
Production Design Associates (PDA) will launch a new division called PDA Green Light.
PDA Green Light is meant to provide affordable event production while delivering eco-friendly practices for the benefit of the community and the overall environment, the company says. It will utilize production equipment and transportation that […]

[Excerpted from “The Long Center for the Performing Arts” by Richard Cadena in PLSN, May 9, 2008.]
To the uninitiated, an elevator ride in Austin’s newly-opened Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts might give the wrong impression. The green and orange metal skin that lines the interior of the elevator is […]

Santa Monica College will unveil its new Performing Arts Center on September 20 with a gala opening featuring chanteuse Barbara Cook.  The Center is comprised of the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, a 499-seat theater, and the Edye Second Space, a 99-seat black box.  Although it does not appear that the College aimed for a […]

Mike Lawler, the author of the above article in this month’s issue of American Theatre magazine, asks, “Have our theatre artists carried [a] sense of ecological consideration with them into the green rooms, through the wings and onto the stages — or has it been left at home with the farmer’s-market-procured organic broccoli and the fuel-efficient […]

Asserting that, “As we launch headlong into the 21st century, sustainability is going to become a major issue for our industry,” then president Steven L. Peters of the International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM) announced the formation of a Sustainability Task Force late last year.  As Jeff Blosser, executive direction of the Oregon Convention Center, […]