We’re Going Carbon Neutral

As if Tribal Gathering wasn’t big enough for us, we made an announcement that we are all really proud of - the commitment to offer our clients the ability to go carbon neutral on future productions. Check out our press release here. Last year when we listed the goals for our company, we were committed to figuring out an economical way to lower our carbon footprint. This past year we did an incredible amount of traveling and it was weighing heavily on us.

The perfect opportunity came this past December when we met Jenna Carl from Liveneutral.org. When we first we first met her, she had just moved to the bay area and was in the process of job hunting. A few weeks later, we received an e-mail saying she was taking the Executive Director role at Live Neutral. It couldn’t have come at a better time for us. We made the decision to use Tribal Gathering in Austin our first carbon neutral production. We worked with Live Neutral to determine our footprint for all of the travel, equipment electrical draw and trucking for the show. It is such a great feeling to know we produced one of our largest ever events with a much cleaner conscience.

Going forward, we will offer each client to take their production carbon neutral. We think this is a really cool idea and something that could easily be replicated throughout our industry. While film and live event production might be among the worst carbon offenders in the country, we can all take steps to help lower this and we are excited to be heading in this new exciting new direction.

It took us a while to find the right partner, but Live Neutral is certainly that - a partner. They work with us to help determine averages that make the process incredibly painless. Within the normal time it takes us to pre-produce a project, we can accurately tell our clients how much the extra expense will be and how much carbon we will be offsetting. Live Neutral works a little differently from other offset programs using a more market driven approach which really fits with our business model. You can learn more about how they do this here.

Anytime you accomplish a goal, it is a very satisfying feeling and this was a big one for us. We will continue to develop new and innovative ways to lower our environmental footprint, and we are now discussing how we can use our collective talents as a company to make this happen.