Interview with John Edson of Lunar Design, who discusses his firm, thoughts on sustainable product development, and how designers fit into the picture with holistic strategies that benefit the brand and all stakeholders.
Duration : 0:5:2
Just how do you milk a goat (properly) in a family homestead environment? A quick “how to” from the folks at Blue Rock Station – a sustainable homestead where Annie & Jay Warmke live in the Earthship they built, trying to demonstrate how to live lightly on the earth.
Duration : 0:6:9
While it’s great to think green when building your home, it’s also important to be green aware about the everyday products you bring into it. BGTV’s Kevin Contreras visits with Sloan Barnett of Shaklee, a global leader in natural food products and household cleaners, to learn how to make better choices and find healthier alternatives to common household goods. Shaklee offers a whole range of personal health and wellness products, steeped in preserving environmental integrity and capitalizing on the latest in scientific research. Join Kevin and Sloan and discover some great tips and some of the best products on the market today.
Duration : 0:2:34
In this program, we’ll explore the exciting race underway to design greener products of all sorts. You can work toward a green career as a furniture maker, interior designer, industrial engineer, or product designer within a myriad of businesses. This is a contest that will reward those who can envision or help create the “greener mousetraps” of tomorrow.
Jobs profiled in this program include:
Architect, Interior Designer, Consultant, and Landscape Designer
21 minutes, color.
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Duration : 0:2:36
This is the fifth in a series of video podcasts from the new PBS series e2 design. The podcasts take you beyond the issues explored in each episode and deeper into the world of sustainable design. In this episode, director Tad Fettig discusses what it was like to film in China, and how it impacted his views on the future of green architecture.
Duration : 0:4:31
The Ohio State University is going green! A number of green initiatives are already underway in many campus departments and college units today. One of the initiatives is green computing. As described in the video, green computing will help the university use less energy and reduce costs. Each student, faculty and staff can help the university make a difference by implementing these green initiatives while on campus. Many of these energy-reducing and cost-saving initiatives can also be implemented at home. By all working together, we can help make Ohio State scarlet, gray and green!
Duration : 0:1:21
An explosion in green building is underway, with cleverly engineered libraries, office buildings, even public housing projects popping up across the Bay Area, and championed as much by landlords trying to cut energy and water costs as by environmental groups.
Duration : 0:11:36
Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople’s six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1″ in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.
Duration : 0:15:22
“Host Kahi Lee takes the Koo family living room to a whole new level and gives it a complete Green makeover according to their needs and goals.
Green Done Right presented by Scott Naturals is a web series focusing on making sustainable-living, budget-conscious design choices.”
Duration : 0:4:36
