Stage exclusive: Going green could save theatres £8m
An exclusive article published in today's Stage magazine reveals some motivating stats that we have been working on over the last few months. Julie's Bicycle can now reveal that savings worth £35 million can be made by the theatre, music and visual arts sectors if each sector reduces their energy use by 25% over the next four years.
Many of these savings can be achieved at little or no cost - through behavioural change within organisations and investments with short payback periods.
The £35 million savings figure for the combined creative industries is based on an estimated energy spend of £370 million in theatre, music and visual arts between 2012 and 2015. This is the equivalent of 2.1 million tonnes of CO2. This presumes that for every tonne of CO2 saved, the business will save £200.
Read the full Stage article here, and watch this space from more on these statistics from JB soon.
