Podcasts by e2 | PBS
e2 is an ongoing PBS documentary series that chronicles efforts to solve the world's most pressing ecological challenges. From energy consumption to design efficiency, policy to industry, the series documents the innovators whose work is reducing humans' impact on the environment. Interviews with experts, policymakers and pioneers across a variety of disciplines offer a firsthand account of the complex environmental challenges that we face, as well as the possibility that pragmatic solutions are within reach. The series is narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Each episode is supplemented by a video podcast that features new footage and unseen interview excerpts, providing further insight into the social and environmental issues that series examines. Produced by kontentreal, new episodes of e2 release on PBS member stations every Tuesday beginning September 2, 2008. Check your local listings. Major corporate support for e2 is provided by Autodesk.
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Aviation: The Limited Sky from 2008-12-30T10:00
Carbon trading is a business arrangement in which someone who produces CO2 pays a fee, which in turn is used to support a project that reduces CO2. The carbon trading market is a measurable and del...
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Aviation: The Limited Sky from 2008-12-30T10:00
Carbon trading is a business arrangement in which someone who produces CO2 pays a fee, which in turn is used to support a project that reduces CO2. The carbon trading market is a measurable and del...
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Aviation: The Limited Sky from 2008-12-30T10:00
Carbon trading is a business arrangement in which someone who produces CO2 pays a fee, which in turn is used to support a project that reduces CO2. The carbon trading market is a measurable and del...
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Portland: A Sense of Place from 2008-12-23T10:00
Portland is a city that successfully implemented a plan for transit-oriented development. Its urban planners made the public domain more appealing and accessible by emphasizing density and pedestri...
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Seoul: The Stream of Consciousness from 2008-12-16T10:00
Cities are population magnets, and soon two thirds of the world's population will be urbanized. People often move to cities for economic opportunities, and this requires that the public domain be m...
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Food Miles from 2008-12-09T10:00
Today, food travels an average of 1,500 miles from its production source to plate. Now, however, the end of cheap, abundant fuel is leading to the end of cheap food. Unpredictable fossil fuel costs...
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Paris: Velo Liberte from 2008-12-02T10:00
Paris' citywide bike-sharing plan, Velib', has been so successful that the mayor wants to create a similar system for cars. Autolib', as it would be called, could offer a reliable and affordable al...
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London: The Price of Traffic from 2008-11-25T10:00
The majority of the world's population is now urban, making cities major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In response, leaders from 40 cities met in London to tackle the challenge of making urb...
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New Orleans: Make It Right from 2008-10-07T10:00
The Make It Right Foundation - founded by celebrity activist Brad Pitt - made history in storm-ravaged New Orleans by placing 150 pink symbolic homes in the city's hardest hit neighborhood, the Low...
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New Orleans: The Water Line from 2008-09-30T10:00
The storm surge of Hurricane Katrina could have been mitigated had New Orleans' wetlands remained undeveloped. Now, citizens of the city's Lower Ninth Ward have begun the restoration of Bayou Bienv...
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The Art and Science of Renzo Piano from 2008-09-23T10:00
For architect Renzo Piano, the building site is a magical place where the art of construction takes place. He calls his office the Building Workshop, acknowledging the birthplace of his designs in ...
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Melbourne Reborn from 2008-09-16T10:00
Melbourne, Australia's Council House 2, or CH2, has set a new standard for sustainable building design. While it employs established sustainable technologies, like energy and water conservation, th...
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The Village Architect from 2008-09-09T10:00
Brian MacKay-Lyons feels that modern architecture education distances students from the tangible act of building. To provide students with more hands-on experience, he created the Ghost Architectur...
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Architecture 2030 from 2008-01-02T10:00
See architect and activist Edward Mazria's compelling presentation, which calls on buildings to be carbon neutral by the year 2030. Mazria has been speaking to leaders from the building industry an...
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Adaptive Reuse in the Netherlands from 2007-12-26T10:00
Dutch architect Frits van Dongen discusses his building, The Whale. The Whale is the centerpiece of Borneo Sporenburg, a high-density urban housing development situated on Amsterdam's eastern dock...
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Affordable Green Housing from 2007-12-19T10:00
Biophilia is a hypothesis that describes humans as emotionally connected to all other living systems. Jonathan Rose, a New York City-based real estate developer, describes how biophilia can guide b...
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Bogota: Building a Sustainable City from 2007-12-12T10:00
During his tenure as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, Enrique Penalosa was both revered and scorned for his urban planning and transportation policies. His public works projects, which largely favored th...
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Greening the Federal Government from 2007-12-05T10:00
Architect Thom Mayne describes his philosophy toward sustainability and design. Mayne, a Pritzker Prize-winner and the architect of the San Francisco Federal Building, is a maverick and a leader in...
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The Druk White Lotus School - Ladakh from 2007-11-28T10:00
The Druk White Lotus School was constructed despite challenges ranging from financing, to Ladakh, India's harsh climate and remote location. The school's founder, His Holiness The Twelfth Gyalwang ...
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Coal and Nuclear: Problem or Solution? from 2007-11-21T10:00
A process called "carbon sequestration" may one day allow the United States and other countries to burn abundant coal reserves without emitting greenhouse gases. But the technology is far from comp...
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State of Resolve from 2007-11-14T10:00
Terry Tamminen, a policy advisor to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on energy and environmental issues, helped draft much of the state's forward-thinking environmental policy. Tamminen di...
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Growing Energy from 2007-11-07T10:00
The production of ethanol and other biofuels requires many of the same resources - such as arable land - as the production of food. As the biofuel industry expands in the United States and abroad, ...
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Paving the Way from 2007-10-31T10:00
Learn how ultra-lightweight materials are playing an increasingly crucial role in automobile design as manufacturers try to design more efficient vehicles. Jon Fox-Rubin, the president and C.E.O. o...
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Energy for a Developing World from 2007-10-24T10:00
Muhammad Yunus - the founder of the Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize-winner - describes his philosophy toward poverty, and how energy access can play a major role in poverty alleviation.
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Harvesting the Wind from 2007-10-17T10:00
Learn how wind turbines are manufactured at the Suzlon Rotor Corporation in Pipestone, Minnesota, which supplies turbines to the state's rapidly expanding community-owned wind farms.
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Deeper Shades of Green from 2007-10-17T09:00
Meet maverick designer Cameron Sinclair, whose "design like you give a damn" credo was an inspiration for the e2 series.
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China: From Red to Green? from 2007-10-17T08:00
Tad Fettig, the director of the e2 series, shares his perspectives on filming in China as this sleeping giant of industry, technology and consumer demand awakens in the 21st century.
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Gray to Green from 2007-10-17T07:00
A closer look at how much energy is used and how much pollution is created by construction. The impact on our environment is staggering.
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The Green Machine from 2007-10-17T06:00
Thirty years ago in Freiburg, Germany, the "Green Movement" was born. Today the city serves as a model of environmental consciousness for architects, planners, and even politicians.
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Green for All from 2007-10-17T05:00
Learn more about the inspirational architect Sergio Palleroni, who is introducing sustainability to poor and underdeveloped communities around the world.
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