1. Start with embedding sustainability in your department’s mission.

Theatre companies that have successfully translated environmental and climate concerns into their institutional operations typically begin by committing to sustainability in their organizational values and mission.^[1] Revising the artistic and educational mission of a department is a key step towards aligning an ethical and values-based framework of a sustainability project with the governance of a department. Revising the artistic and educational mission of a department is a key step towards aligning an ethical and values-based framework of a sustainability project with the governance of a department. This is especially the case with larger theatre and performance departments, where grassroots initiatives may have a more difficult time gaining acceptance and forward momentum, and where bureaucratic systems have been identified as an impediment to change.^[2] Publicly-sharing this mission helps to commit the department to a sustainability journey. Just as important as it may be to contextualize environmental policy with global, national, local, and institutional climate and environmental agendas and carbon education goals, an intersectional approach that applies learnings from Indigenous strategic plans, and broader calls for decolonization, racial justice and disability justice must also be considered.