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Welcome to PGA Green! Want to recycle that prop? Need ideas on how to wean your crew off bottled water? You’ve come to the right place. The world is changing and the entertainment industry is getting greener. We’d like to make it a little easier (and a little more fun) by giving PGA members and non-members alike access to some useful tips, a searchable green vendor list, like minds and more. Poke around and tell us what you think.
woodA three-inch D-ring binder costs about fifteen smackaroos these days. Ten years ago they cost even more; about $30 each, if I recall.  In 2001 I wrapped an MTV production after 5 seasons and 170 episodes. It was a scripted daily show, and over the years we had accumulated a giant storage unit full of electronics, office supplies, random props, countless tapes and about 350 D-ring binders of various sizes. That’s a lot of binders.

When it came time to clean out storage it was pretty easy to find homes for the electronics. But even though those binders were worth about $10,000 retail, I couldn’t find a home for them. Not even for free.

Naomi Watts in FAIR GAMEIn the new movie Fair Game, undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) is exposed when her name is leaked to the media in a politically motivated vendetta. While investigating the claim of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Valerie’s diplomat husband Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) publishes an editorial in the New York Times, sparking political fallout and controversy forever linked to George W. Bush’s administration.

Controversy makes for great headlines and great movie plots, but controversy over reducing, reusing and recycling our waste in film/television production is a silly battle. Producer Mari Jo Winkler has been spearheading sustainability and the greening of the sets on all of her films for the past six years.


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