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On March 2nd, when Jimmy Fallon takes the reins of “Late Night” from Conan O’Brien, he will have one of the first studios on television that is completely green.

Fallon told the New York Post, “Everything is recycled…We are building everything with recycled metals and using all green lighting. We are starting (construction) from scratch so it is NBC’s policy that we make everything from the ground up entirely green. Everything.”

Model shows green set design of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Fallon’s “Late Night” will be in the history Studio 6B, where “The Tonight Show” was taped until 1972. “I wrote up a three page Word document and gave it to the set designer,” Fallon laughs. “The craziest stuff I asked for - believe it or not, I got. I even got the Roots (as a house band).”

The new “Late Night” set will seat an audience of about 275 people, and feature trap doors in the audience for guests to rise out of, bleachers behind musical guests so fans can sit on stage during live performances, and have multiple flat screen TVs.

Fallon, younger and more tech-orientated than all other late night hosts, has said he wants to have a computer at his hosting desk so he can play movie clips and “Skype different people” during the show. “Our show is going to be a lot more tech-oriented. I’m into gadgetry. We’ll treat a video game premiere like a movie premiere. My generation grew up with computers. It is kind of second nature to us.”

To see and hear more on the new Late Night set, check out the video below.