We make it easy being green
About us
We didn’t get into TV to trash the planet – we’re creatives at heart who want to show the world in all its gore and glory. Somehow though we’ve found ourselves in a field that scientists estimate contributes as much to climate change as the airline industry.
Few of us also entered the screen industries to make money – but whether we like it or not, margins are tight, and time even tighter. Improving our environmental street cred tends to be put on the back-burner.
Cut the Carbon was started by experienced TV professionals used to finding solutions to tricky problems. We want to help the industry square what we do with what we love.
Who we are
Alethea Lindsay
MSc Env Mgmt (Open)
FOUNDER
Alethea Lindsay’s work in TV and sustainability started 25 years ago when she cut her teeth on the world’s longest-running environmental show, 50/50.
She’s the creator of Wild Ones, Wild Trips and Wille Wêreld, three environmental series helping children to learn from and about nature.
She applied the Sabido-style educational methodology to Loxion Lyric, a drama series for young adults, to subversively teach financials skills.
She has worked as a producer/director/exec in drama, factual, wildlife and children’s TV, and as an offline editor, mostly in factual, in the UK TV industry.
She’s taught participatory video skills and lectured on archive workflows.
She’s been on the jury for the Emmy Awards, and the Sunchild Wildlife Film festival.
Associated awards include BaKaForum
International Proposal Prize, DuPont Award for Journalism and Goldener Kompas.
She holds an MSc in Environmental Management from the Open University,
a BA in Drama and Journalism and is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).
