e2 | PBS

e2 | PBS

E2 | PBS

e2 is an ongoing PBS documentary series that chronicles efforts to solve the world's most pressing ecological challenges. From energy ...

Aviation: The Limited Sky

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 ...
12/30/08

Portland: A Sense of Place

Portland is a city that successfully implemented a plan for transit-oriented development. Its urban planners made the public domain more ...
12/23/08

Seoul: The Stream of Consciousness

Cities are population magnets, and soon two thirds of the world's population will be urbanized. People often move to cities for economic ...
12/16/08

Food Miles

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 ...
12/09/08

Paris: Velo Liberte

Paris' citywide bike-sharing plan, Velib', has been so successful that the mayor wants to create a similar system for cars. Autolib', as it ...
12/02/08

London: The Price of Traffic

The majority of the world's population is now urban, making cities major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In response, leaders from 40 ...
11/25/08

Super Use

The architects of 2012 Architecten in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, use discarded materials for their design purposes. But in order to work ...
10/14/08

New Orleans: Make It Right

The Make It Right Foundation - founded by celebrity activist Brad Pitt - made history in storm-ravaged New Orleans by placing 150 pink ...
10/07/08

New Orleans: The Water Line

The storm surge of Hurricane Katrina could have been mitigated had New Orleans' wetlands remained undeveloped. Now, citizens of the city's ...
09/30/08
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