kontentreal
e2:
the economies of being environmentally conscious
e2
design
season two episode summaries
releasing
November 30, 2007 on PBS
Chapter
1: The Druk White Lotus School — Ladakh
Ladakh,
India is one of the most remote regions on earth. Beset with religious,
political and cultural strife, it is also one of the most tumultuous.
Enter the Druk White Lotus School, which intends to equip Ladakhi
children for living in the modern world while simultaneously embracing
Buddhist traditions. Commissioned by His Holiness The Twelfth Gyalwang
Drukpa and designed by Arup architect Jonathan Rose, the school features
sustainable technologies that suit the altitude and landscape, as well as
Ladakh's cultural climate.
Chapter
2: Greening the Federal Government
Government
buildings are not historically associated with sustainability or exquisite
design. But the U.S. General Services AdministrationÕs (GSA) Design
Excellence program is changing that perception. The program
commissioned Pritzker Prize-winning Architect Thom Mayne to design the San
Francisco Federal Building, a structure that aims to be the prototype for
tomorrow's workplace.
Chapter
3: Bogot‡: Building a Sustainable City
Enrique
Pe–alosa, the former mayor of Bogot‡, Colombia, transformed one of the world's
most chaotic cities into a model of civic-minded and sustainable urban
planning. He reformed public transportation, added greenways, built
mega-libraries and created the longest stretch of bike-only lanes in the
world. But along the way, he met tremendous opposition from the very
people he was attempting to help.
Chapter
4: Affordable Green Housing
New
York City is known for its diversity, but that quality isnÕt always reflected
in its public housing developments, which often ignore the social and cultural
characteristics of the communities who live in them. This episode follows
third generation-developer Jonathan Rose through Irvington, Harlem and the
Bronx — communities where Rose is putting sustainability within reach of
public housing residents.
Chapter
5: Adaptive Reuse in the Netherlands
Dutch
planners tap into their innate design sensibility and the industrial landscape
to create a sustainable development in AmsterdamÕs abandoned dockyards, Borneo
Sporenburg. Offering an alternative to the trappings of suburban sprawl,
the development maximizes space while maintaining privacy, and uses the vast
waterways as core landscape design elements.
Chapter
6: Architecture 2030
Buildings
are responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United
States. Can a collaborative effort — government leaders,
architects, regulatory agencies and building suppliers — avert a climate
crisis through policy change and education? Architect-turned-activist Ed
Mazria may have the answer. His Architecture 2030 organization is
galvanizing commitment to a carbon-neutral building sector by the year 2030.