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Interview with Josh Mark, Director of Sustainability for FOX Broadcasting Company
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Susanna Schick.
Josh Mark is the Director of Sustainability for FOX Broadcasting Company. FOX Broadcasting is deeply committed to greening the filming industry, and is kind enough to share their wealth of knowledge with their competitors through the FOX Green Guide.
OG: What are you looking forward to the most about the conference?
Josh: I went last year, it was great! It was very inspirational, I saw what others were doing, took ideas from totally different industries, and found ways to apply it in ours. Nothing specific, but I took bits and pieces of this and that, and later found myself more easily inspired. I was recharged, and felt like I could always do more to make FOX more sustainable.
OG: I love how clear and simple the FOX Green Guide Best Practices section is. How widespread is the FOX Green Guide? What are you doing to popularize it within and outside of FOX?
Josh: A team of us developed the guide to enable our productions to have a simple resource for greening their work.We designed it for internal use, for our employees, production crews, and vendors. We don’t plan to advertise it and there’s no money involved in the guide. Initially, we discussed making it password protected, but that was too costly. Besides, we want everyone to be green, and there’s no competitive advantage to us being green, so the more people who know about the guide, the better. If everyone is greening their productions, it escalates people’s baseline commitments to sustainability, which can only be good.
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Lights, Camera, Re-Action: Entertainment and Sustainability in Los Angeles
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.
Business professionals, along with leaders in the entertainment industry and sustainability, gathered Monday for a luncheon held by the Los Angeles Business Council at the historic California Club in Downtown Los Angeles. The topic at hand: How do we sustainably grow Los Angeles’ entertainment industry?
The event kicked off with Eric Garsetti, President of the Los Angeles City Council, who highlighted the movement of jobs in the entertainment industry to other states and countries. He also discussed his fight to encourage federal and state tax breaks that he believes will promote industry growth in Los Angeles. Moderated by Gretchen Lewotsky, VP of State & Local Government Affairs & Environmental Operations at FOX, the panel included:
- Sharon Keyser, SVP Real Estate, Government & Community Relations – Paramount Pictures
- Tom Smith, SVP West Coast Real Estate – NBC Universal
- Paul Audley, President – FilmLA
- Adam Gilbert, Director Corporate Real Estate – Asset Management – Disney CORE Services
Each of the panel members pointed to separate efforts their studios had launched in the last few years. NBC Universal, with its “Green is Universal” initiative, is redesigning how it sources its’ catering on production sets, revisiting how it reuses developed sets, and greening its’ events (such as high-profile award shows). Warner Bros. built the 21,600-square-foot Stage 23, which incorporates numerous sustainable elements including its’ use of sustainable, reused, and recycled construction materials and a solar electrical system is now being installed.
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Green initiatives gets the ball rolling at Fox Studios
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Chathri Munasinghe.
Josh Mark, Executive Director, Special Event Product, Creative Services for Fox Broadcasting Company, has been responsible for “greening” special events at Fox in the past few years. Most recently he worked on greening the 2008 American Idol Finale and 2008 Teen Choice Awards – powered by B99 biodiesel. Having previously attended Opportunity Green in November 2008, he decided to share a few eco-initiatives taking place at FOX.
Under the “Green it, Mean it” mantra, Mark discussed the comprehensive recycling program, composting efforts, and reduced bottle water consumption already underway. Also striking a chord are the employee hybrid car incentive and a push towards utilizing hybrid vehicles behind-the-scenes on the FOX lot.
Opportunity Green hopes the initiatives demonstrating responsibility to the environment and society will propagate throughout the FOX organization.
