Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1

Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes13
DatesApr 17, 2007 - Jul 10, 2007
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Episodes

Fuel
Season 1Episode 160 min

Fuel

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.
Apr 17, 2007
Build
Season 1Episode 260 min

Build

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.
Apr 24, 2007
Cities
Season 1Episode 360 min

Cities

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.
May 1, 2007
Wear
Season 1Episode 460 min

Wear

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.
May 8, 2007
Eat
Season 1Episode 560 min

Eat

Featured is a green restaurant, a burger restaurant buys local meat, and an entrepreneur who finds treasure in another man's trash.
May 15, 2007
Drive
Season 1Episode 660 min

Drive

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.
May 22, 2007
Furnish
Season 1Episode 760 min

Furnish

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.
May 29, 2007
Create
Season 1Episode 860 min

Create

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.
Jun 5, 2007
Kids
Season 1Episode 960 min

Kids

Featured are young activists who are saving portions of the Costa Rican rain forest and raising awareness about plastic problems.
Jun 12, 2007
Paper or Plastic?
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Paper or Plastic?

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.
Jun 19, 2007
Sports
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Sports

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.
Jun 26, 2007
Work
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Work

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.
Jul 3, 2007
Pray
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Pray

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.
Jul 10, 2007

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