‘take one invisible gas…” - the visual arts & environmental sustainability

GALA,Van Eyck, Catherine Langabeer, Director of Arts, Julie’s Bicycle

1 Julie’s Bicycle We make environmental sustainability intrinsic to the business, art and ethics of the creative industries

2 Taking change to scale

Albany Alexandra Almeida Analogue Anne Minors Performance Consultants Arcola Arts Agenda Artsadmin Association of British Theatre Technicians BAC Bambu Brasiliero Barbican Arts Centre Big Brum Blast Theory Blind Summit Theatre Boat Ballet BPI Theatre Cast Bar Bush Cachella Cape Fareell Cardboard Citizens Chapter Arts Centre Charcoal Blue Chats Palace Cheek By Jowl Chisenhale Dance Space Circus Space Cirque du Soleil Comedy Theatre Company of Angels Complicite Cryptic Dance City Dogstar Theatre Company Donmar Dream Think Speak East Angles Theatre Company Playhouse Embassy Theatre Central School of Speech and Drama English National Opera English Touring Theatre Federation of Scottish Theatre Ferneham Hall Festivals Edinburgh Fevered Sleep Forced Entertainment Forrest Forge Theatre Company Fortune Frantic Assembly Fuel Theatre Gate Gielgud Kings Glyndebourne Grand Opera House Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre Hampstead Hawarth Tompkins Architects Headlong Theatre Highlander Hoipoloi Improbable Independent Theatre Council Productions Kabosh Kali Theatre Lemn Sissay Library Theatre LIFT Little Angel Live Theatre Empire Liverpool Everyman Bubble Theatre Company London Theatre Consortium Lyceum Lyric Hammersmith International Festival Michael Clark Company Miranda National Theatre National Theatre of Scotland National Theatre Wales Nederlander New Art Club New International Encounter New Perspectives New Theatre Noel Cowrd Northern Broadsides Northern Nottingham Playhouse Oh What a Lovely War Old Vic Playhouse Oxfordshire Theatre Company Paddington Development Trust Paines Plough Paule Constable People's Romeo Phoenix Pilot Theatre PLASA Playhouse Polka Theatre Prince Edward Prince Of Wales Princess Theatre and Breezes Cafe Bar Proto- type Theatre Quarantine Rambert Rasa Productions Reckless Sleepers Red Shift Regents Park Open Air Theatre RGA Consultants Richard DeDomenici Rifco Arts Royal Court Royal Shakespeare Company Sadler's Wells Sage Gateshead Savoy Scenery Salvage Seven Stories Shared Experience Sherman Cymru Signal to Noise Society of London Sound and Fury Southbank Centre and Floral Hall Station House Opera Stellar Quines Theatre Company Stephen Mottram’s Animata Stoke Regent Stoke Victoria Empire Susan and Darren Tara Arts Tara Studio Terrapin Puppet Theatre School The Adelphi The Albany The Drill Hall The Duke Of 's Theatre The Fifth Estate The Future is Unwritten The Minack Theatre The Opera Group The Red Room The Sage Gateshead The Theatre Absolute Theatre Alibi Theatre Royal Theatre Royal Plymouth Theatre Royal Stratford East Theatrical Management Association Third Angel Tipping Point Toynbee Studios Trafalgar Studios Travelling Light Theatre Tricycle UK Arts International Unicorn Uninvited Guests Victoria Apollo Volcano White Light Woking Theatre Wyndhams 3 Sustainability

4 5 Planetary boundaries

6 GALA What does it mean to make environmental sustainability an essential part of art practice? What is the role of the arts and sustainability? What responsibility should it take?

7 Does it matter?

8 9 London’s Visual Arts 2009 Carbon Footprint: 220,442 T CO2e Power of the artistic response It is in art that society finds its long horizons, sweep of ages...with climate change the far-seers are a requisite. Jay Griffith, 2010

Angela Palmer, Ghost Forest, 2009 12 13 14 The scientists need help…

Prof Julia Slingo, the Met Office's chief scientist: “Decadal forecasts provide essential information about natural variability and how it will evolve in the next few years in the context of a globally warming world, but they do not tell us anything about long- term climate sensitivity (i.e. how much the planet will warm for a specified increase in radiative forcing related to greenhouse gases). There is no evidence that current estimates of climate sensitivity produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre have changed.”

15 Jim Hansen – retiring to campaign & communicate

“the deniers want the public to be confused. They raise these minor issues and then we forget about what the main story is.”

16 17 Making the invisible visible

Source: Carbon Visuals Purple is the new black

19 Classic strategies…

20 Bringing it home: “The Gift”

21 Or?

22 Where do we go from here? • Profound transformation • We need the arts to say AND do: joining the artistic, ethical and practical

23 The practical response

Pragmatic and responsive to a changing context: • Policy frameworks seeking to put a price on environmental harm and properly value resources • Increasing extremes in weather and insurance costs • Rising energy and waste disposal costs • Rising commodity prices • Increasing demand from NGOs, audiences, consumers for transparency and accountability

24 Core environmental impact areas

• Energy • Water • Waste • Mobility

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Guiding principles ✳ Commit ✳ Understand ✳ Improve ✳ Communicate

Practical solutions

Top Tips IG Tools carbon calculators Research & Guides

Cross-industry Campaigns

Benchmarks

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Energy for buildings

• Electricity and gas use for offices, galleries, studios, residencies • We identified savings of £685,000 with 86 venues between 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 • Extrapolated to the entire UK sector: £10m of savings • Huge potential, uneven progress: we analysed 12 similar sized venues sharing data: one venue increased CO2e by 8%, another decreased by 16% • Manchester Art Gallery and starting to engage audiences and visitors

28 Glyndebourne Opera House

29 Energy for events

• Generators for temporary power • 60% of generators we monitored at 8 events were double the capacity required • One festival saved 20% on its fuel bill by implementing efficiency measures • Frieze Art Fair has run on 100% WVO biodiesel

30 Water

• By 2030 global water demand is predicted to increase dramatically to a level 40% above current supply. • Theatre Royal Plymouth: water saving measures (urinal control and percussion taps) saved 2,300 tonnes of water and £10,000 • Puma including water in its “true costs”

31 Waste

• Start at the beginning not the end • If “outsourced emissions” are taken into account, EU emissions have risen not decreased • Minimising waste from the outset by focusing on end- use at the procurement stage • London Theatre Consortium and a group of cultural organisations in Manchester are both exploring shared storage facilities

32 Mobility

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