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The Best Episodes of Big Ideas for a Small Planet

Every episode of Big Ideas for a Small Planet ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Big Ideas for a Small Planet!

Big Ideas for a Small Planet is an American documentary series on the Sundance Channel which focuses on environmental innovations such as alternative fuel and green building techniques. The series premiered on the iTunes Store

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    Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 1 - Fuel
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    #1 - Fuel

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 2 - Build
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    #2 - Build

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 3 - Cities
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    #3 - Cities

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 4 - Wear
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    #4 - Wear

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 5 - Eat
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    #5 - Eat

    S1:E5

    Featured is a green restaurant, a burger restaurant buys local meat, and an entrepreneur who finds treasure in another man's trash.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 6 - Drive
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    #6 - Drive

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 7 - Furnish
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    #7 - Furnish

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 8 - Create
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    #8 - Create

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 9 - Kids
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    #9 - Kids

    S1:E9

    Featured are young activists who are saving portions of the Costa Rican rain forest and raising awareness about plastic problems.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 10 - Paper or Plastic?
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    #10 - Paper or Plastic?

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 11 - Sports
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    #11 - Sports

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 12 - Work
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    #12 - Work

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 1 Episode 13 - Pray
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    #13 - Pray

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 1 - Power
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    #14 - Power

    S2:E1

    Renewable energy from sources such as the sun, manure and wind.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 2 - Decorate
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    #15 - Decorate

    S2:E2

    Environmentally conscientious furnishing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 3 - Water
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    #16 - Water

    S2:E3

    Water reserves in the 21st century.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 4 - Gen Y
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    #17 - Gen Y

    S2:E4

    Environmental and consumer decisions of the children of baby boomers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 5 - Food
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    #18 - Food

    S2:E5

    Cultivating environmentally friendly foods and wine without reducing biodiversity, depleting water supplies or causing topsoil erosion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 6 - Fashion
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    #19 - Fashion

    S2:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 7 - Recycle
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    #20 - Recycle

    S2:E7

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 8 - Grow
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    #21 - Grow

    S2:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 9 - Transport
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    #22 - Transport

    S2:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 10 - Live
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    #23 - Live

    S2:E10

    Eco-conscious construction.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 11 - Business
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    #24 - Business

    S2:E11

    Environmentally friendly business.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Big Ideas for a Small Planet Season 2 Episode 12 - Gadgets
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    #25 - Gadgets

    S2:E12

    Technology that helps the planet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Fuel" is the best rated episode of "Big Ideas for a Small Planet". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/17/2007. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Build".