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CBC The Nature Of Things Visions Of The Future

CBC The Nature Of Things Visions Of The Future

1 of 5 The Suzuki Diaries Coastal Canada.

On this road trip David and Sarika travel Canada's coasts, meeting scientists,
fishers and the leaders who are trying to ensure the future of the ocean.


2 of 5 Supercar Building The Car Of The Future.

Supercar: Building the Car of the Future takes Prof. Brian Fleck on a quest to meet the engineers, designers and even students who are trying to build the car of the future. As a mechanical engineer from the University of Alberta, he can be a tough critic when he confronts solutions that he thinks are unrealistic. On the trail of the car of the future he travels from California's famous freeways to Turin, Italy, getting his hands dirty in labs, factories and even racetracks.


3 of 5 Living City A Critical Guide

Eighty per cent of Canadians live in urban regions, and unless we recognize that the health of a city, its well being, is vital to our way of life, Canada will never realize its full potential.? - Christopher Hume What's wrong with Canada's cities? What's right? Award-winning urban affairs columnist Christopher Hume takes a cross-country journey to explore the sustainability, viability and liveability of Canada's population centres. Hume, a provocative urban critic and columnist for the Toronto Star, highlights the projects and passionate people who will shape urban life in Canada in the coming decade.

4 of 5 Build Green

Do you remember the children's tale, "Three Little Pigs?" Build a strong house made out of bricks and mortar, and you'll be safe from the big, bad wolf. Build Green is here to show audiences that a house built from sticks and straw is  better protection from the elements, and it mitigates your personal impact on global climate change. 
Build Green advises making the sun, the wind, and the rain ? along with dirt, straw, and sewage ? your friends. By building a house using innovative practices and materials, you'll be doing the earth a favour too. The bonus, of course, is that green housing saves you big bucks.

5 of 5 Earth Energy

Sculptor, aviator, inventor, and filmmaker Bill Lishman documents his journey around the globe in search of earth's renewable energy. In Niagara, he discovers our rich history of hydroelectric production. His travels continue as he explores the world's largest solar collector power plant in the Mojave dessert. In Iceland, geo-thermal energy literally shoots out of the ground. And Bill is blown away in Denmark where they produce 25% of their lectricity 
with wind turbines. Today, if the rest of the world consumed at the rate Canadians do, we'd require five planets in order to sustain ourselves.