All Episodes of Big Ideas for a Small Planet

Season 1

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  Fuel

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2007

  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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  Build

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2007

  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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  Cities

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2007

  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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  Wear

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2007

  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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  Eat

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/15/2007

  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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  Drive

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/22/2007

  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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  Furnish

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/29/2007

  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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  Create

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2007

  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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  Kids

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/12/2007

  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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  Paper or Plastic?

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/19/2007

  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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  Sports

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/26/2007

  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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  Work

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/3/2007

  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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  Pray

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/10/2007

  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