Clara
George

Project: Developing a green plan for the Vancouver film industry

Clara George is a Vancouver based television producer, sustainable production advocate and change-maker. Over her 25-year career, Clara has won an Emmy Award and PGA Award for “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”; an NCAAP Award for “Sounder”; and a Women Image Awards for “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”. Clara has been an advocate of changing the way we produce film and television, promoting and practicing Sustainable Production. In 2018, Clara was chosen as one of the first Reel Green Ambassadors by Creative BC and was honoured as a Sustainable Champion at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Sustainable Production Forum.

PROJECT

Clara pledges to bring sustainability to the forefront of the film and television industry. Vancouver is the 3rd largest production centre in North America. Individually, each show employs thousands of people and spends millions of dollars – collectively, we are the largest industry in Vancouver. Any and all changes that we can put into practice on one show can be multiplied by the 100s of productions shot in Vancouver each year, creating an immediate and significant reduction of the city’s carbon footprint. Through C40's Women4Climate Mentorship Program, Clara will be working with Vancouver city planners and policy makers to set-up better, sustainable systems that will allow productions to lower their impact. Specifically, opening up clean energy power sources to the industry to reduce the use of diesel generators while filming. Her goal is to make Vancouver the most sustainable production centre in the world and help create a blueprint that all filming centres can follow.

Adriane Carr

Councillor - City of Vancouver

Councillor Adriane Carr was re-elected in 2018 for her third term on Vancouver City Council. Born in Vancouver in 1952, Councillor Carr earned a master's degree from UBC in urban geography, working under David Ley and Walter Hardwick. She focused her thesis on the role of citizen groups in building community spirit and shaping development in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano. Councillor Carr taught for 12 years at Vancouver's Langara College, served on the Langara Faculty Association Board and, for several years, chaired the department of interdisciplinary studies. In 1989, she left teaching to join the executive team at Western Canada Wilderness Committee, a group founded by her husband, helping it grow into one of Canada's largest membership-based conservation groups, and taking on a lead role in helping resolve one of the biggest environmental issues of the 1990s: protecting the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound. Councillor Carr is a well-known leader in Green politics. In 1983 she co-founded the BC Green Party, North America's first Green Party, and in 1984 co-founded the Green Party of Vancouver. From 2000–2006, she led the BC Green Party, became the first Green leader in Canada to be included in televised leaders' debates and helped the party garner 12% of the province-wide vote - at that time one of the highest levels of voter support of any Green Party in the world. From 2006-2014, after co-chairing the successful campaign to elect Elizabeth May as leader of the Green Party of Canada, she served as May's deputy leader, and ran for federal office in Vancouver Centre in 2008 and 2011. For several years she co-chaired the Canadian Women Voters’ Congress non-partisan Women’s Campaign School.

Councillor Carr was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 2011 and then re-elected in 2014 and 2018, both times at the top of the polls. She is the Chair of the city’s Standing Committee on Policy and Strategy Priorities, a Director of Metro Vancouver and Chair of Metro Vancouver’s Climate Action Committee.

Through Women4Climate, Councillor Adriane Carr is most excited to mentor women leaders in bold new climate action and collaborate with women locally and globally to turn around our planet’s climate crisis.

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