west coast to the east

Mike Lawler at ecoTheater has news of plans from Ian Garrett in Los Angeles for a 'Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts', or CSPA. It'll be committed to:

'creating a theatrical LEED standard, developing an educational curriculum for sustainable methods in the arts, maintaining an online resource guide, and holding an annual CSPA conference.'

This will compete (in the best sense) with Gideon Banner's Green Theater Initiative in New York. The GTI's website has a useful first-steps guide to greening your theatre.