Side Angle Photography

This submission reflects this organization's contribution to the climate effort, representative of their current actions and commitments as well as the ways in which they intend to step up and collaborate with others.

Side Angle Photography's Climate Action Contribution

About Side Angle Photography's Climate Efforts

Photo Business: we do our own printing on one printer in-house; drive less than 20miles for shoots. Personal: We chose not to have children; eat very little meat or dairy; buy local; plant insect loving plants; will be purchasing electric vehicles in next 1-2 years; plan on visiting local recycling plant to better understand it; do not own pets, but volunteer at local Humane Society; reuse plastic bags and never buy single-use plastics (even at airports, which is very hard!). Etc.

Climate Action Commitments

Current Climate Actions Side Angle Photography Is Taking:

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Commit to Reducing Waste Produced on Tour

There are many simple and easy ways to decrease waste while on tour. This includes: coordinating with venues, concessionaires and catering to reduce waste at the source by using environmentally preferable serve-ware and straws; consulting with catering to to make entire service plastic-free, aiding venues and caterers in reducing non-reusable water bottle consumption; collecting and recycling guitar strings, collecting and properly disposing of used batteries.

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Commit to Eliminating Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles

Only about 23% of plastic bottles are recycled within the U.S.1 By providing hydration stations on tour, encouraging fans to bring refillable water containers, where allowed to performances, and ensuring tour buses and catering are stocked with environmentally preferable hydration options, will reduce the use of single-use plastic bottles.

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Commit to Reducing Energy and CO2 Emissions From Touring

All tours, big or small, can calculate and offset all emissions generated from a tour and acquire an offset of CO2 emissions. The majority of the CO2 emissions from touring are from fan travel. You can encourage fans to carpool and take mass transit to the shows to reduce this.

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Commit to Reducing Food Waste

Every year in the United States, approximately 31% (133 billion pounds) of the overall food supply is wasted, which impacts food security, resource conservation, and contributes to the 18% of total U.S. methane emissions that come from landfills2. Coordinate with caterers and venues to donate excess food to local shelters and food banks, where regulations allow it.

New Climate Actions Side Angle Photography Commits To Take:

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Commit to Educating Concert Attendees on the Environmental Impact of Tour

Action cannot be taken without awareness. Develop sustainability messaging for your website, social media content, or engage concert attendees on pledges to reduce CO 2 e missions, eliminate single-use plastic bottles, etc.

Areas For Collaboration

We are interested in collaborating on the following:

Local Collaboration
  • Collaborate on climate and clean energy action, and to advocate for stronger climate policy at the local level

Natural Lands
  • Encouraging states to adopt incentive programs for forest management, tree cover expansion, and soil health

Organization details

Photography business dedicated towards capturing the beauty of Earth and its inhabitants, while illuminating the degradation and difficulties our communities are experiencing at increasing rates.
Sector
Business
Location
Longmont, CO
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