An original series that explores the living vitality of the environment. Different topics from sustainable architecture, water culture and alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more challenges us all to live smarter, live greener and live with the future in mind.

Narrator
Brad Pitt

SERIES 1:
The Green Apple
The first episode begins in New York, a city that is leading the charge to green its industrial skyline with several groundbreaking projects. New York combats the urban myth of the bustling city as a 'concrete jungle'. 'The green apple' explores some of Manhattan's most prominent and technologically advanced structures, like One Bryant Park and The Solaire, as well as the innovative minds behind them.
The episode illustrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can surprisingly be a model of environmental responsibility.

Green for All
This part follows the architect Sergio Palleroni as he continues his mission to provide architectural and design solutions to regions in social and humanitarian crisis. Palleroni already has four global initiatives underway aimed at providing architecture students with hands-on field experience providing housing for the poor.
This episode finds him in East Austin, Texas and Mexico, where he and his student team are helping threatened communities build thousands of homes while teaching residents to be resourceful in cutting costs and using local materials.

Green Machine:
In this part, mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, takes viewers on a tour through the city and showcases his mission to make it the greenest city in America.
Chicago already demonstrates a remarkable commitment to green design and construction, with over 40 buildings registered for LEED (the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System): an integrated solar-powered public transportation system with a biker commuter station and over two million square feet of green roofs, including City Hall.

Grey to Green:
This part takes the notion of the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by looking at Bostons Big Dig, and the massive amount of waste created by the citys $15 billion public works project.
Paul Pedini, a civil engineer on the project had the idea to build his own home from the Big Dig waste. The success of his project then sparked plans to create an office complex in Massachusetts from the same recycled material. These innovative projects serve as prototypes to demonstrate to city officials the value of recycling on such a grand level.

China: From Red to Green:
The series moves to China, whose soaring population and rapid industrialisation have created a boom in urbanisation that is unprecedented in human history. To try to tackle this global issue, this part of the series explores green design solutions in both theory and practice, including Steven Holls Linked Hybrid project, which, when it is completed, will have the largest residential geothermal heating/cooling and greywater recycling system in the world.
William McDonough shares his plans to make China an entirely sustainable country and the ways architecture can be both profitable and environmentally intelligent.

Deeper Shades of Green:
The series ends with a look to the future. This part focuses on the remarkable thinkers and designers of our time: Ken Yeang, Werner Sobek and William McDonough.
Nothing short of geniuses, these architects are challenging and environmental design philosophically, psychologically, technically, aesthetically, politically and culturally. Each is radically changing the face of not only architecture, but of environmentalism.

SERIES 2:
The Druk White Lotus School
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.

Greening the Federal Government
Government buildings are not historically associated with sustainability or exquisite design. But the U.S. General Services Administration's (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.

Bogot: Building a Sustainable City
Enrique Pealosa, 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.

Affordable Green Housing
New York City is known for its diversity, but that quality isn't 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.

Adaptive Reuse in the Netherlands
Dutch planners tap into their innate design sensibility and the industrial landscape to create a sustainable development in Amsterdam's 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.

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.