Partnering For Our Future
Sony Pictures has teamed up with numerous non-profit and other organizations dedicated to advancing environmental causes that promote and inspire more green practices in the communities where we live and work.
This small sampling of relationships demonstrates the broad range of activities and partners Sony Pictures engages with each year in our efforts to maximize sustainable practices both in our business and in our communities. Some of the groups the company supports include:
- TreePeople - For more than a decade, Sony Pictures has provided support for TreePeople through the Sony Pictures Urban Green Fund. The fund provides resources for the company's employees to become trained Citizen Foresters and to develop tree planting projects in their communities. Sony Pictures is also a sponsor of TreePeople's Parks Program, a partnership that will continue through 2013 helping expand its work in neighborhoods through the planting and caring for trees in parks. The company was a proud Tree Honoree at the organization's 2010 An Evening Under the Harvest Moon, where it was recognized for "longstanding commitment to environmental sustainability and picturing a greener world."
- Habitat for Humanity - In 2010, two projects were completed with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, including a 10-unit development consisting of five duplexes which were slated to be the first LEED certified housing development in the city of Lynwood. Additionally, one ton of matter from Sony Pictures' productions was donated to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
- Producer's Guild of America - Sony Pictures remains an active contributor to the PGA Green, which is developing tools and expanding the www.pgagreen.org and the http://www.greenproductionguide.com/ websites. The material on these sites includes an industry carbon reporting tool, best practices guide, and recommendations on green vendors.
- Conservation International - The company worked with Conservation International in the development of a 3D photography exhibit at the Biodiversity Conference in Japan, which was also shown at UNFCCC COP 16 in Cancun and at CES.
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) - NRDC advised Sony Pictures as the company transitioned to light-weight packaging across its Home Entertainment supply chain.
- Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) - The movie Bad Teacher was shot on location at three schools in Los Angeles, California. ACE, The Environmental Media Association and Sony Pictures came together to bring educational lectures to these schools and start a gardening program at two of them. The company also funded school trainings and lectures across Los Angeles.
- GRID Alternatives - Sony Pictures' employee volunteers worked with GRID Alternatives to install a 12-panel solar system on a former Habitat for Humanity home in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles.
- California State Parks - Sony Pictures' employees volunteered with the California State Parks, Los Angeles Audubon Society and interns from the Dorsey High School Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program on a park restoration project at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook located in Culver City. Over 150 employees and Dorsey High School students removed invasive plants from the hillside and helped to restore the Overlook to its natural habitat. Volunteers r emoved over 2000 cubic feet of non-native plant material from the park.
