Code Green TV Show
by TreeHugger on 12. 3.04
We've been telling you about various US celebrities with eco-TV plans (Cameron Diaz, Angela Lindvall, Danny Seo) for a couple of weeks, but everything's looking pretty preliminary. Not so for Canadian producers Ric Beairsto and Daniel Leipnik, who start filming Code Green this month. The two-part program brings an environmental slant to the home makeover show craze. The format is more competitive...
...than Changing Rooms or Trading Spaces, with four sets of homeowners vying to make their home the most energy efficient. Each gets $15,000 (Canadian) to spend on retrofitting their houses, leading up to a final energy consumption measurement. The house with the most energy use reduction wins a hybrid car so they can take their enviro-awareness on the road, too. Look for it in spring 2005 on CBC. Via greenthinkers.org ::CodeGreen [by KK]
Here's the outline for the do it yourself TV show I'd like to see.
Your Southernmost Window
A series of half hour programs
What you can do with one south-facing window, or how to live within a solar budget, including designs viewers can replicate at home to provide heat, light, ventilation, and/or stimulate ecological growth.
Program 1. What You can See from a Window - one square foot of sunlight, orientation to the sun, design principles, window types, glazing, heat loss, infiltration, insulation, heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), air purification, breathing
Program 2. Every Window in the House - window types take 2, radiation and convection, caulking and weatherstripping, drafts and infiltration, how to chart your airflows, how to use them, window insulation, whole house HVAC
Program 3. The Electric Window - solar electricity/photovoltaic/PV, small battery charger, solar/dynamo flashlight radio, one window systems, permanent emergency capacity, battery switching and your car
Program 4. Hot and Cold Windows - windowbox heaters, passive and active ventilators, advanced airflow usage, active and passive water heating, your northernmost window and a nod to refrigeration
Program 5. The Greenhouse Window - windowsill gardens, bubbling out/bubbling in, heat storage, aquaculture, vermiculture, and ecological housekeeping, the neighborhood
Program 6. Most Windows in Town -what if everybody did it?, the economics of sunlight, physics is international, a range of possibilities, systems thinking from community to region to country to world