Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Fuel
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with interviews with forward-thinking designers and features on green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. This episode investigates the future of automotive fuel with segments on a truck that runs on vegetable oil from a fried-chicken party; one-woman’s bio-diesel publicity campaign; and the test of an ethanol racing car at Daytona. (2007) TVPG (AL) (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Build
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with interviews with forward-thinking designers and features on green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a visionary architect works with clients to build their first “green” home; a designer demonstrates his real-life tree house made of growing tree trunks; and environmentally conscious ideas are introduced to low-income neighborhoods. (2007) TVPG (AL) (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Cities
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a real-estate developer helps turn a polluted brown field into a sustainable community; an energy innovator submerges two turbines in New York City’s East River; and a band of guerilla gardeners covertly beautifies blighted urban plots of unused land. (2007) TVPG (AL) (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Wear
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, designer Linda Loudermilk creates high-fashion clothes out of eco-friendly fabrics; a sportswear manufacturer recycles used materials for its clothes; an innovative designer and entrepreneur convince people to re-use old clothes in radically new ways. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Eat
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, an up-and-coming chef shows off his new green restaurant, where even the rooftop doubles as a produce garden; a burger restaurant uses sustainable meat and produce from farms within 100 miles; and a young entrepreneur finds treasure in another man’s trash. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Drive
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a Silicon Valley carmaker debuts an electric sports car of the future; an entrepreneur shows off his brightly colored affordable electric commuter car; and a high-school team works on their electric vehicle prior to competition in a variety of road rallies. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
and a high-school team works on their electric vehicle prior to competition in a variety of road rallies. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Furnish
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a leading furniture company explores the goal of making all new products 100% sustainable; two designers use leftover scrap wood to create recycled furniture; and a Philadelphia-based firm shows off their innovative and stylish home-product designs. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Create
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a photographer documents the biodiversity and indigenous cultures of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; an artist weaves together audiotape to make clothing, upholstery and boating sails; and a green architect creates a house from a retired 747 airplane. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Kids
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. This episode looks at how a new generation is learning about ecology as it profiles young activists who have saved portions of the Costa Rican rainforest and created an outreach program to focus community attention on plastic problems and solutions for our waterways. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Paper or Plastic?
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. This episode introduces innovators who are working to make intelligent, eco-friendly design a reality. They include a world-renowned architect, designer and ecological innovator who is guiding the United States Postal Service to eliminate toxins its packaging. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Sports
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. This episode
visits three people dedicated to keeping the planet safe for athletic pursuits: the creator of racing bikes made from bamboo; a champion skier who is raising awareness about the declining snow pack; and the distributor of skateboards made from bio-friendly materials. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Work
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. This episode visits a brewing company with a dedication to the environment and to creating an ideal working space; watches as an analyst audits a Bay Area company to show how it can reduce its environmental impact; and introduces the office of the future. (2007) TVPG (0:26)
Sundance Channel: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Pray
Addressing some of the most important issues facing humanity, this original documentary series from Sundance Channel focuses on environmental topics with features on forward-thinking designers, green products and alternative ideas that may transform our everyday lives. In this episode, a cleric inspires environmental concern with an interfaith coalition dedicated to greening places of worship; and a woman from the Appalachians uses her faith to galvanize local communities in a battle against the mining companies that are destroying homes. (2007) TVPG (0:26)