Along the North shore of Lake Ontario, just East of the famed CN Tower in downtown Toronto, Canada, lies the “port lands”. Toronto has been called Hollywood North for about two decades now, and a lot of shoots tend to be centered in the downtown core - which isn’t all that far from the port lands. Formerly an industrial area, it’s being turned into Filmport, a filmmaking studio complex.

Filmport president Ken Ferguson says that the filmmaking industry has a high carbon footprint and tends to be fairly wasteful with leftover materials and even food. It all tends to get tossed. The Toronto Star (link above) quotes a 2006 UCLA study that says that in Los Angeles, only the aerospace industry contributes more greenhouse gases than the film and TV industry.

Filmport has a side project called Green Screen with an agenda to make filmmaking more green conscious. They’ve received a provincial government loan of Cdn$250,000 towards that end.