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those limitations don't exist. When the entire team is aligned around serving the show, reuse stops feeling like compromise and starts feeling like art. What We Try to Leave Behind Sustainability isn't just about what stays on stage, it's also about what leaves it. Whenever possible, our scrap material is donated to a local artist to incorporate into her own work or to use as a teaching resource. Materials that would otherwise be discarded find a second life through both art and education, extending their usefulness beyond our production schedule. In the context of a television season, it's an extremely small gesture. It doesn't offset everything we build, carve or throw away. But it's a reminder that design doesn't end when filming wraps. Intention can carry forward, even in modest ways. The truth is, we don't always get to be green. Television production is fast, demanding and often wasteful by necessity. There are times when schedules, story or scale simply don't allow for the most sustainable choice. But as the realities of climate change continue to shape the world around us, it feels increasingly important to at least ask better questions and make better choices when we can. A. LUPOLD COUNTY POLICE STATION. PRODUCTION STILL. B. COLORADO SPRINGS AND LUPOLD COUNTY POLICE STATION GRAPHICS BY BEATRIZ KERTI. C. INTERIOR FCI BUTLER PRISON CELL. PRODUCTION STILL. D. LUPOLD COUNTY POLICE STATION. PRODUCTION STILL. E. THE FINAL FORM OF THE POLICE STATIONS - THE VILLAIN'S LAIR. SET PHOTO. F. VILLAN'S LAIR. PRODUCTION STILL. G. FCI BUTLER PRISON LIBRARY, FORMERLY PART OF THE S18 HOSPITAL SET. PRODUCTION STILL. B A C