Big Ideas for a Small Planet
Season 1
2007 · 13 episodes
1. Fuel
2007-04-17 · 30m
Take a look at the automobile fuels of the future. Featured are a vegetable oil powered truck, a bio-diesel publicity campaign, and a race car that runs on ethanol.
2. Build
2007-04-24 · 30m
See ways that some in the building industry are helping the environment. Features is an architect who builds “green” homes, a designer whose tree house is made of growing tree trunks, and an environmentally conscious ideas geared to low-income neighborhoods.
3. Cities
2007-05-01 · 30m
Featured is a real-estate developer who created a community from a polluted field, an energy innovator who put underwater turbines in New York City's East River, and guerrilla gardeners who plant flowers in plots of unused urban land.
4. Wear
2007-05-08 · 30m
See how the fashion industry is turning green. Featured is a designer who uses eco-friendly fabrics to create high-fashion clothes, and a sportswear manufacturer whose products come from recycled materials.
5. Eat
2007-05-15 · 30m
Featured is a green restaurant, a burger restaurant buys local meat, and an entrepreneur who finds treasure in another man's trash.
6. Drive
2007-05-22 · 30m
Featured is an electric sports car, an affordable electric commuter car, and a high school team's electric vehicle that they use for road rallies.
7. Furnish
2007-05-29 · 30m
Featured is a furniture company that wants to make its new products 100% sustainable, and two designers who are creating furniture from leftover scrap wood.
8. Create
2007-06-05 · 30m
Featured is a photographer who documents the biodiversity and indigenous cultures, an artist who uses audio tape to make clothing, and a green architect who made a house from a retired 747 airplane.
9. Kids
2007-06-12 · 30m
Featured are young activists who are saving portions of the Costa Rican rain forest and raising awareness about plastic problems.
10. Paper or Plastic?
2007-06-19 · 30m
Featured are innovators who are working to create intelligent, eco-friendly design, including a designer who is helping the U.S. Postal Service eliminate toxins in its packaging.
11. Sports
2007-06-26 · 30m
People who are trying to keep Earth safe for athletic reasons are profiled. Included is the creator of bamboo racing bikes, a world-champion skier and the maker of bio-friendly skateboards.
12. Work
2007-07-03 · 30m
Featured is a brewing company dedicated to the environment, offices of the future, and a Bay Area company that wants to reduce its environmental impact.
13. Pray
2007-07-10 · 30m
The Reverend Fletcher Harper inspires environmental concern in the religious world with GreenFaith, an interfaith coalition dedicated to greening places of worship and taking action against polluters; Judy Bonds, director of Coal River Mountain Watch, uses her faith to galvanize local communities in the battle against the mining companies who are destroying their homes; and avid diver Don Brawley gives life to the cremated remains of the dead by including their “cremains” into a man-made reef that supports coral re-growth in the Florida Keys.
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