On August 29, 2024, The Chicago Film Office and ECOFIXR launched the first of a three-part series on sustainable filmmaking.

Green The Bid’s Summer 2024 Meeting welcomed a presentation featuring guest speakers Katie White Hartranft, VP and Account & Sustainability Director at The Martin Agency, and Jenny Reed, President & Partner at Slim Creative.

Ad industry trade associations the 4A’s, Ad Association, AICP, ANA, AOP, APA, IPA, and ISBA, have all jointly announced support for the adoption of best practices to encourage production hard drive reuse over single use. The guidance, developed by Green The Bid, Ad Net Zero and AdGreen, aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions in production and lessen the burden on natural resources implicit in excessive hard drive usage.

Green The Bid’s Spring Member Meeting featured a presentation from guest speakers from King Kong Production Vehicles and #setlife: David Rovsek, Tyler Barton, and Robert LeRoy.

Green The Bid has launched The Complete Green Service Company Production Manual. Designed in partnership with Miranda Romero, Sustainability Production Consultant for The Lift, Mexico, and with the collaboration of many service companies and networks, including Compass Rose, GPN and PSN, the Green Service Company Production Manual is a comprehensive sustainable practice resource for international production companies.

Acknowledging that sustainability looks different from market to market, the manual has been designed to support the staff, crews and vendors of international service companies in communicating and implementing their best practices at a local level, with resources designed to be translated or localized by the companies making use of them.

Green The Bid and members of AICP’s post community are excited to announce the launch of The Complete Green Post Production Manual. Built as a collaborative and living document, this comprehensive guide covers sustainable best practice for every aspect of the post process from DIT all the way through to delivery. The Manual is packed with recommendations from industry experts, resources, materials templates, and more.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Shady Amir El Khorazati, MD/EP of Cairo-based production company The Talkies about discovering his love of nature in Sinai and his enduring belief that we can influence others through our own sustainable actions.

Directors Kristyna Archer (ArtClass) and Jordan Brady (True Gent), channeled their volunteer efforts as Green The bid ambassadors to create “How Green Is Your Set,” an entertaining and informative video in which Kristyna visits Jordan’s real life set to find out the answer to this burning question. We sat down with both to find out more about this collaboration.

Jessie Nagel and Gabi Kay, two Co-Founders of Green The Bid, recently spoke with Marketing Procurement IQ about why environmental measures in production are a responsibility for us all, the origin of GTB, the women who inspire them to keep moving forward.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Claire Thompson, Head of Production at FINCH in Australia, about growing up with a love of Maori culture, her appreciation of FINCH’s other environmental work with The Lion’s Share project, and the importance of taking climate action as part of a global community.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Becky Morrison, Head Honcho at The Light production company in New York, about how sustainability has always been part of her production mission, and how everything is connected because we are all connected.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Magdalena Staneva, Petra Trendafilova, and Tihomira Temelkova of Solent Films, Bulgaria, about providing electric transport on set, making the most of resources, and the Bulgarians that inspire them to do more!

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Jaclyn Paris, Head of Development at Cosmo Street, about leading the company's green initiatives, how post storage is the invisible carbon footprint we need to focus on now, and how being a pre-med student trained her for an industry where you can also say, “What’s the nature of your emergency?”

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Victoria Harvey and Rachel Smy, Cofounders of Advertising Environmental Consultancy, Clima, about their work supporting companies in reaching net zero, the vital need for better climate crisis reporting and communications, and how we need to take action on climate as fast as we did Covid.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Eva Dvořáková Pérez, founder of BGreen, freelance producer & Commercial Department Manager at APA Czech, about growing up understanding the need for careful use of resources, and the importance of inspiring others to join the sustainable production journey.

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Anna Hewitt, Executive Producer Assistant at Madam Films, about building sustainability into your entire business and doubling down to get the job done!

Green The Bid Crew Heroes is a series that highlights individuals who bring sustainable practices to any area of the production process, and seek to inspire others to do the same. Production can’t happen without all crew-members (both on set and off), and the same is true of their support of Green The Bid.

This week Green The Bid’s Jessie Nagel spoke with Oisin O'Broin Beag, Founder of Glon Recycling & Resource Management, about protecting Ireland’s natural beauty, how to ensure a low waste set, and energy efficiency as a key factor in a sustainable future.