The feature doc A Sea Change is now in postproduction. Look at their website to follow the many Green Code Actions they are putting in place to make a more sustainable production and see also the demo of this very important film.

http://www.aseachange.net

You can also watch a short clip of Ben Kalinas, one of the producers of the film presenting their work at our Green Code sessions at Silverdocs in 2007:

http://www.aseachange.net/2008/08/silverdocs-2007.html

Watch also a brief presentation of the Green Code by Marie-France Côté, one of the co-founder of the project during this session:

http://www.aseachange.net/2008/08/marie-france-co.html

Congratulations also to Silverdocs for pursuing their green efforts, and you can learn more about what they are doing here:

http://silverdocs.com/about/green-initiative/

What are you doing – or not doing – to go green?

Two internationally-recognized academic centers at American University, the Center for Social Media (CSM) and the Center for Environmental Filmmaking (CEF), have joined forces to write The Documentary Filmmaker’sCode of Best Practices in Green Filmmaking. The Code is an initiative of the Future of Public Media Project Funded by the Ford Foundation. It is the first comprehensive green code for filmmakers to be backed by scientific review and academic analysis and it will help the Green Code Project's research too since we will share our work on that.

As a part of the research, CSM and CEF are conducting a confidential survey to help establish a baseline of what documentary filmmakers are doing – and not doing to go green. Please take a minute to complete the survey. Your honest and candid answers are most appreciated.

To respond to the survey please go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=X1JR0H_2bJIIG2WS_2fse1_2fnRA_3d_3d

Dear Greencoders,

Great news! The Green Code Project is now officially part of the1% for the planet project. This global movement connects companies that are ready to give 1% of their sales to non-profits like us. Their motto: keep earth in business. So if you are a company, you can donate money through them, and they make sure that the ultimate beneficiary is earth. This is a very good way to ensure that you make your part in sustaining our world while helping raise the bar of corporate responsability around you. This will enhance our global position and help us maintain our future progresses in the world of green medias. For more information, you can visit their website:

http://onepercentfortheplanet.org/

or contact us directly at:
connect@greencodeproject.org

The Green Code will present a session at the Summer Institute of Film and Television (SIFT) from the Canadian Screen Training Center (CSTC). We look forward to give practical tools to these Canadians students who are already working in the industry. Hopefully, they will bring these tools back home and plant some more greenmedia seeds.

Friday May 30th
12h10 - 12h50
Heritage College Auditorium
325 Cité des Jeunes Blvd.
Ottawa (Canada)

The workshop will teach how to do our productions in a more sustainable way environmentally and socially, thus getting at the edge of the future environmental requests by acting as a leader. We will learn about the opportunities and economics advantages of being green and go through a production budget to explore the many choices offered right at the start of a project. From closing our computer at night to lobby big industry suppliers like Sony to go green, there is much we can do.

If we needed more proofs about climate change and our need to act collectively, this article should motivate us to go even further in our environmental fight; time is of the essence. Our industry has the opportunity to act as a leader and be a model for a smaller footprint.

Dave Adam, The Guardian environmental correspondent share his analysis here.

World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years, says US report.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/13/carbonemissions.climat...

Hello Greencoders (and future ones),

I am an administrator of this website, and we added a lot of new features recently, a first web-step to establish a Green Media open-source community that can be connected through this project, and be very much alive. Ideas and research need to be exchanged and shared, and we want to bring them together. Exactly the point of the new community-based interactive fantastic features:

- subscribe to our News RSS feed

- go exchange ideas and start topics on our Green Forum

...and, if you are subscribed as a Greencoder,we strongly advice to:

- use our new downloadable logo and our email signature

- start your own Greencoder blog! Share your thoughts and challenges, what you do and what you dream about, anything, it's yours

From now on, you can also see who are the latest Greencoders who subscribed and who's online while you're there...

But, we know that even with all that, we are nothing without the sacred magic of your participation, it's the St-Graal of the project, and there can't be no Green Media Conspiration without you...

ok, looking forward to that!

marie-france

Hot Docs 2008 was again a big success, and we want to congratulate the whole team for taking the lead on their green initiatives. Great ideas like the tickets/ballots for vote, and the recycling of the delegate bags they give back to community (oh, and does anyone has any great original green ideas for delegate bags? if so, send them on our green forum). And many more that we will publish soon, so we can get inspired by their creativity. Bravo!

look at their greencoder page here:

www.greencodeproject.org/actions/hotdocs

And thanks to the people who attended our micro-meeting session, many interesting facts and questions were raised there and will help us pursue our work.

The Grierson Trust and the Sheffield Doc/Fest continue to innovate and promote the advancement of a green conscience in the film industry by pursuing year two of their Green Awards. The recipient of the Award in 2007 was the eye-opening documentary with Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth".

The films submitted need to comply to these rules: a single documentary, or an episode from a strand or a series exploring environmental issues or that has made a contribution to the climate change debate. The category is also open to documentaries that have been produced in an environmentally friendly way and adhere to the Green Code Guidelines.

The Green Code is proud to collaborate with them, and don't forget to submit your films!

For a look at all the details:

http://www.griersontrust.org/shef_categories.htm

The best moment to think about doing your production green is right at the start. We will hold a micro-meeting at North America most important documentary festival in Toronto, Hot Docs, to teach you how to make your production "greener", what are the economic impacts of it, and share with us your own alternatives, to help us build this extensive green production guide.

When: Thursday, April 24th, from 1:30 – 2:30 PM.

Where: Rogers Industry Centre (Victoria College), 93 Charles Street West, First Floor (room 115)

If you can't attend, this guide will be available on the website soon.

for more infos: http://www.hotdocs.ca/index.php/popup/event/micro_meeting_green_code/

You've been shooting at the great wall of China? Your basement (or office!) is full of magnificient beauty shots or fantastic unused interviews? Why not share and recycle all of that, lessening at the same time other production footprint?

So go upload your films! Open Source Cinema is recycling footage to create promotional films for the Green Code Project. Over the next year they will be gathering footage which will be edited on OSC, and the resulting films will appear before Green Code Project certified films.

opensourcecinema.org