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Welcome to the resources section. These resources have been carefully curated in collaboration with Cultural and Creative Industry leaders from the Audio-Visual, Cultural Heritage, Performing Arts and Visual Arts sectors in Ireland.

Having already read through which impact areas are relevant to your sector, now it is time to find case studies, reasearch & reports, along with resource organisations that can help you take action.

Like any line of work there is a new vocabulary that is part of working towards planet friendlier practices. The word Sustainability has often been criticised due to the overly complicated language, and this can be a barrier to people´s learning and understanding.

We have created a glossary of sustainability terms relevant to the Creative and Cultural Industries. The definitions have been given in their simplest terms, and we hope this is a helpful page to have open while reading through this toolkit or other resources.

Green Memo for The Young Offenders

Green Memo for The Young Offenders

Audio - Visual Media Guide
Show project
Motion On Larkin Green Memo

Motion On Larkin Green Memo

Audio - Visual Media Templates
Show project
Creative Carbon Scotland

Creative Carbon Scotland

Audio - Visual Media Guide Visual Arts
Show project
Sustainable Tools in Cultural Heritage – Carbon Calculator

Sustainable Tools in Cultural Heritage – Carbon Calculator

Cultural Heritage Digital Tools
Show project
Gallery Climate Coalition

Gallery Climate Coalition

Digital Tools Visual Arts
Show project
Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change

Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change

Cultural Heritage Report
Show project
Making Impactful Music 2023 ESG Report

Making Impactful Music 2023 ESG Report

Audio - Visual Media Report
Show project
Green Mobility – A guide to environmentally sustainable mobility for performing arts

Green Mobility – A guide to environmentally sustainable mobility for performing arts

Guide Performing Arts Templates
Show project
Culture Connects Conversation: Sustainability in The Performing Arts

Culture Connects Conversation: Sustainability in The Performing Arts

Performing Arts Report
Show project
A Screen New Deal: A Route Map to Sustainable Film Production

A Screen New Deal: A Route Map to Sustainable Film Production

Audio - Visual Media Guide Report
Show project
Julie’s Bicycle – Climate Literacy Webinar

Julie’s Bicycle – Climate Literacy Webinar

Audio - Visual Media Guide
Show project
Green Arts Initiative in Ireland – Guide to Energy

Green Arts Initiative in Ireland – Guide to Energy

Guide Performing Arts
Show project
Music Industry Climate Pack

Music Industry Climate Pack

Audio - Visual Media Guide
Show project
The Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals & Events

The Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals & Events

Cultural Heritage Guide Templates
Show project
Sowing Seeds – How to make a Sustainable Short Film

Sowing Seeds – How to make a Sustainable Short Film

Case Study Cultural Heritage
Show project
Albert

Albert

Audio - Visual Media Digital Tools
Show project
Design Declares

Design Declares

Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts
Show project
The Decarbonising Together project

The Decarbonising Together project

Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts
Show project
The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts
Show project
The Waking Walls – Alan James Burns

The Waking Walls – Alan James Burns

Case Study Visual Arts
Show project
Instant Dissidence

Instant Dissidence

Case Study Performing Arts
Show project
Creative Carbon Scotland Case Studies

Creative Carbon Scotland Case Studies

Case Study Performing Arts
Show project
European Eco-Policies Report

European Eco-Policies Report

Cultural Heritage Report and Resource Organisation
Show project
The Galway International Film Festival

The Galway International Film Festival

Case Study Cultural Heritage
Show project
Broadcasting Sector Sustainable Road Map

Broadcasting Sector Sustainable Road Map

Audio - Visual Media Guides Report and Resource Organisation
Show project
Ad Net Zero Ireland

Ad Net Zero Ireland

Audio - Visual Media Report and Resource Organisation
Show project
Greening the Audiovisual Sector: Towards a New Understanding through Innovation Practices in Wales and Beyond

Greening the Audiovisual Sector: Towards a New Understanding through Innovation Practices in Wales and Beyond

Audio - Visual Media Report and Resource Organisation
Show project
Ninja Tune Record Label & Julie’s Bicycle

Ninja Tune Record Label & Julie’s Bicycle

Audio - Visual Media Case Study
Show project
Music of the Spheres World Tour – Sustainability

Music of the Spheres World Tour – Sustainability

Audio - Visual Media Case Study
Show project
Audio - Visual Media Guide

Green Memo for The Young Offenders

This series, we are committed to being more green and reducing our carbon footprint. Please take a little time to read about our plans below and do share any of your own ideas with us.

 

Image copyright: CorkBeo

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Audio - Visual Media Templates

Motion On Larkin Green Memo

An example of a green memo by Icon Films for their production of Motion on Larkin, completed as an affiliated member of BAFTA´s Albert scheme.

 

 

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Audio - Visual Media Guide Visual Arts

Creative Carbon Scotland

This site sets out the framework for environmental reporting for the arts, screen and creative sector in Scotland. Being based on the most recent technical research and legislation, this framework will continue to be updated and develop as well.

 

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Cultural Heritage Digital Tools

Sustainable Tools in Cultural Heritage – Carbon Calculator

Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage (STiCH) is a life cycle assessment (LCA) Carbon Calculator and Library of Case Studies and Information Sheets developed to help cultural heritage professionals make educated, sustainable choices to lower the environmental impact of their work.

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Digital Tools Visual Arts

Gallery Climate Coalition

An international community of arts organisations working to reduce the Art Gallery sector´s environmental impact.

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Cultural Heritage Report

Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change

This report shows how cultural heritage resilience is part of climate change adaptation and how cultural heritage is part of the European Green Deal.

 

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Audio - Visual Media Report

Making Impactful Music 2023 ESG Report

Warner Music Groups ESG Report is a good example of ESG Reporting with the Creative and Cultural Industries, particularly for large organisations.

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Guide Performing Arts Templates

Green Mobility – A guide to environmentally sustainable mobility for performing arts

The Green Mobility Guide offers practical recommendations for professionals across the performing arts, gives case studies and resources, and includes the Julie’s Bicycle ‘IG tool’ for tracking carbon emissions while on tour.

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Performing Arts Report

Culture Connects Conversation: Sustainability in The Performing Arts

British Council Ireland, in partnership with University College Dublin (UCD) and Queens University Belfast (QUB) hosted this Culture Connects conversation with policymakers, practitioners and producers in the performing arts, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, in order to connect cultural professionals on this issue and provide a space for a frank discussion on concerns, hopes and actions in this space.

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Audio - Visual Media Guide Report

A Screen New Deal: A Route Map to Sustainable Film Production

The film production industry requires systemic change to become sustainable. This report sets out a route map to achieve this goal. This report has been produced as a collaboration between albert, the BFI and Arup between November 2019 and July 2020.

 

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Audio - Visual Media Guide

Julie’s Bicycle – Climate Literacy Webinar

As part of the BFI Sustainable Screen Programme funded by the National Lottery, Julie’s Bicycle delivered a Climate Literacy webinar for anyone working in the screen sector. It focused on those involved in activity ‘beyond production’ – from cinemas, festivals and screen archives, to education and skills development, sector support and promotion.

 

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Guide Performing Arts

Green Arts Initiative in Ireland – Guide to Energy

Understanding and recording your energy use is the first step to reducing energy consumption in your building. Knowing how to read your meters and how to understand your bills will help you to see how your activities affect your energy use.

This guide aims to help you to understand how much energy your organisation is using to light and heat your building and offices and which fuels produce the highest carbon emissions.

 

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Audio - Visual Media Guide

Music Industry Climate Pack

Music Declares Emergency was created by music industry
professionals and artists in 2019 to place music at the heart
of the conversation and action in relation to the climate and
ecological emergency.

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Cultural Heritage Guide Templates

The Guide to Plastic-Free Festivals & Events

The Guide To Plastic-Free Festivals and Events, developed by Native Events, provides comprehensive strategies to eliminate plastic usage and reduce the environmental impact of the arts and cultural events sectors.

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Case Study Cultural Heritage

Sowing Seeds – How to make a Sustainable Short Film

Sowing Seeds is a documentary about an Irish pilot project in the sustainable filming of the short, The Last Harvest.

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Audio - Visual Media Digital Tools

Albert

A carbon calculator and carbon action plan for productions to track impact and reduce negative environmental impacts.

 

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Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts

Design Declares

Design Declares is a growing group of designers, design studios, agencies and institutions who declaring a climate and ecological emergency. As part of the global declaration movement, they commit to harnessing the tools of their industry to reimagine, rebuild and heal our world.

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Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts

The Decarbonising Together project

Decarbonising Together invited five communities from the Limerick City to examine how meaningful climate action can become part of their day-to-day lives.

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Report and Resource Organisation Visual Arts

The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

A catalogue for arts and cultural practitioners of information and guidance for integrating sustainability into their work. Relevant categories: Exhibition, Film, Graphic Design, Performance, International Certifications.

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Case Study Visual Arts

The Waking Walls – Alan James Burns

A collaborative theatrical artwork by AlanJames Burns using age-old methods of coping with loss to reframe environmental grief as a unifying experience to process climate disruption.

 

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Case Study Performing Arts

Instant Dissidence

Rita Marcalo is the Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence, a dance company based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. For each Instant Dissidence project participants become ‘artivists’, enacting the power of connecting art and social consciousness.

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Case Study Performing Arts

Creative Carbon Scotland Case Studies

Examples of artists and arts organisations in the UK who have adopted sustainable practices, lowered their carbon footprint and engaged in community action and advocacy.

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Cultural Heritage Report and Resource Organisation

European Eco-Policies Report

A reference document to guide policies on eco-design for sustainable creative and cultural industries in Europe.

 

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Case Study Cultural Heritage

The Galway International Film Festival

View the climate action and sustainability festival plan for the world-renowned Galway Film Fleadh in 2025

 

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Audio - Visual Media Guides Report and Resource Organisation

Broadcasting Sector Sustainable Road Map

Setting out the vision for a sustainable broadcasting sector in Ireland and a plan of how to get there.

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Audio - Visual Media Report and Resource Organisation

Ad Net Zero Ireland

A collection of organisations and trade bodies in the marketing and advertising industry in Ireland committed to supporting people to build a more sustainable future.

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Audio - Visual Media Report and Resource Organisation

Greening the Audiovisual Sector: Towards a New Understanding through Innovation Practices in Wales and Beyond

An academic paper on environmental sustainability in the audiovisual sector in Wales through the lens of green innovation.

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Audio - Visual Media Case Study

Ninja Tune Record Label & Julie’s Bicycle

The Ninja Tune Record label has carried through this progressive vision to its operations, working to develop a sustainability strategy and broader advocacy work.

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Audio - Visual Media Case Study

Music of the Spheres World Tour – Sustainability

Coldplay´s sustainability ambitions and practices for a low carbon tour, which pledged to cut emissions by 50% compared to their 2016-17 world tour.

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