People's Premiere: Eco-Elements

Date 16th Mar 2009
Submitted by Leo Murray on 16 March 2009 - 12:59pm

For all the actual details of how we got the People's Premiere emissions so very very low, see here.

Here's a little photo-story of how Team Stupid brought together the different elements for this greenest of film premieres...

Recycling a banner for the solar cinema

Recycling a banner for the solar cinema

This banner had a previous life as one corner of an enormous Greenpeace banner that was hung off the Bank of England earlier this year.

Scrounging chipfat

Adam scrounging chipfat

Team Stupid scrounged a load of used chipfat from some West End restaurants, to be processed by PureFuels so we could run our van off it on the day.

Purefuels conversion from waste to useful fuel

Purefuels conversion from waste to useful fuel

Not Stupid Van

The NotStupidmobile

This splendid yellow bio-diesel van was on loan from Greenpeace for the day.

Powered by London's Chipfat

Powered by London's Chipfat

The Not Stupid Solar Cinema goes up

Team Stupid buzzing around Leicester Square on saturday

More of the same from Sunday (timelapse footage courtesy of Phil Moore)

Inside Solar Cinema construction

Inside the Not Stupid Solar Cinema during construction - massive bigups to Firefly Solar for bringing the skills, the hardware and the elbow grease

The Not Stupid Solar Cinema is finished

The Not Stupid Solar Cinema is finished

Solar array is plugged in

Solar array is plugged in

Solar array sunbathing

Solar array sunbathing

Pedal powered popcorn machine

Pedal powered popcorn machine

As pedaled by the lovely Anna Jones.

Fair trade coffee bean sacks

Fair trade coffee bean sacks screen

Fair trade coffee bean sacks screen 2

Fair trade coffee bean sacks screen 2

Rolling out the green carpet

Rolling out the green carpet

Sweeping the green carpet

Sweeping the green carpet

It was reused so needed a bit of sprucing up before being walked on by celebs.

Solar car parked up

Solar car parked up

Cambridge University's experimental solar car tries to look inconspicuous in a parking bay near the square.

Here's the video report from the eco-preparations, courtesy of Zeina Abul Hosn and Peter Armstrong:

Here's what we did with the 5000 newspapers instead, courtesy of Julia de Klerk. Thanks Julia!

Making the newspaper chairs 1

Making the newspaper chairs 1

Making the newspaper chairs 2

Making the newspaper chairs 2

The finished product

The finished product

Chairs in situ

Newspaper chairs in situ in the Solar Cinema (Photographs by karen Robinson)

Not Stupid reusable water bottles

Not Stupid reusable water bottles

See On the Green Carpet for what happened next...