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Want a challenge? Let us pick three random cards as your sustainability challenge for your upcoming production.
Follow the tip card. Record the impact. Share your challenges and results in the comment section below.
Local
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SHOP LOCAL
Spend Budgets Locally: Choose to spend production dollars in your local area firstly.
HIRE LOCALS
Get to know your neighbors. Utilize your local workforce.
BE INCLUSIVE
Encourage audience growth. Offer Buy One Get One, & Pay What You Can nights.
GIVE LOCAL
Find local organizations can benefit from your no longer needed materials & set pieces.
SMILE AND SAY HELLO
Promote people?s health, happiness, and well being.
MAKE CONNECTIONS & GIVE BACK
Participate in community engagement, philanthropy, and volunteerism.
BE ALERT
Watch out for best practices that ensure & increase health, safety, and wellness. Be considerate.
HIGH FIVE
Value co-workers and classmates. Recognize and acknowledge effort.
SUPER CHARGE YOUR SOCIAL IMPACT
Eliminate negative social outcomes to improve the quality of life for people ? employees, students, audience members.
BE INFORMATIVE
Share theatre company sustainability efforts with students and the audience members.
Lumber
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LOAN & BORROW
Make the most of local partnerships, support each other by loaning and borrowing stock items.
SCREWS
Use screws on wood to construct, and easily deconstruct for reuse. Screw without glue when possible. Best practices choice: wood deck screws.
SALVAGE
Salvage wood materials for reuse later, and organize them for easily accessible future use.
DESIGN TO DECONSTRUCT
Plan ahead! While you design keep deconstruction in mind.
STOCK
Become familiar with your stock and consider it at the start of each new production design.
TAKE THE ECOSTAGE PLEDGE
RE-IMAGINE
Consider new ways to create scenery with new materials. Think outside the box.
REDUCE
Label lumber before storing to reduce unnecessary waste. Measure and mark the ends of lumber to indicate lengths in feet and inches.
REUSE
Consider using scenery from previous productions before building new.
RECYCLE
Cradle to Grave: know when to let something go. Maximize storage space in the shop by safely recycling materials that are no longer of value to the shop.
Lower Toxicity
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PROTECT RAINFORESTS & STOP LAUAN USE
Instead find and use alternatives, such as Revolution Ply by Patriot Timber.
BE IN THE KNOW
Read labels & MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) what you are using before you use it.
SAVE THE OZONE
Use paints with Low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC?s) = low odor = Happy Nose.
SAVE THE SPRAY
Limit use of Aerosol spray paints, use compressed air sprayers instead.
GO RECHARGEABLE
Reduce use of single use batteries. Invest in rechargeable batteries.
PVC
Silent but deadly: Polyvinyl chloride is an odorless and solid. Eliminate PVC in scene shops. Handle existing material with care & protect yourself. Seek materials that are dioxins, phthalates, and BPA free.
GO FOAMLESS
Foam does not biodegrade and is toxic. Be creative and find alternative ways to get the job done. Who doesn?t love papier-m?ch??
NEVER DOWN THE DRAIN
Don?t throw paint down the drain. Recycle it safely.
KEEP IT CLEAN
Use Earth Friendly cleaning products such as Seventh Generation and ECOS.
TAKE THE ECOSTAGE PLEDGE