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Environment
A series of programs about environmental quality - not the usual fluff or preaching, but concise, solid looks. Air quality (sources, duration, how cleaned, downwind, health effects). Peak water - quality and quantity (growth despite limits, hazards of desalizination, cost of extraction and moving, used & effective recycling, regional, states, national, international) - sustainability of use, limitations and constraints, denial. Solid waste & recycling (denial, effectiveness, Germany vs. US, schools, cities, states, countries). Population (the taboo the media does not touch and does not approach objectively), including successes and failures, population pressures (economics, food, transportation, quality of life), long term perspective. Food (agriculture based on oil and long distance transport) and growing shortages or surpluses. Transportation - how the US is 100 years behind Europe; the coming demise of "warehouses on wheels" (trucks) in light of Peak Oil, airplane air quality impacts, and more.