Let's Talk About the Environment: DECORATE

• Eco-interior designer Kelly LaPlante gathers furnishings for a trio of enviro-conscious vacation cottages.
• New York designer Daniel Michalik transforms vats of cork granules - leftovers from the wine stopper industry - into charming, sustainable furniture.
• High-end designer Bannavis Sribyatta's PIE (Project Import Export) creations are inspired by nature and made from natural materials such as rattan, bamboo, water hyacinth and even tree mulch
  

Tuesday, April 8, 9:00pm e/p
"Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Decorate"
Traditional furniture, carpets and paint can exact a heavy environmental toll, be it in the depletion of virgin forests, the use of petroleum products or toxic emissions from paints and adhesives. But it IS possible to have stylish furnishings without messing up the planet, and this episode will introduce three designers who know how beautifully and conscientiously to feather a nest.

Tuesday, April 8, 9:30pm e/p
Manufactured Landscapes
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal. Photographers like Ansel Adams took as their subject the majesty of the natural world; contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky also portrays the landscape that surrounds us - only his subjects are the mines, quarries and other man-made vistas that also constitute our "natural" world. Manufactured Landscapes chronicles and expands on Burtysnky's latest project: documenting China's epic transformation into an urbanized society. Juxtaposed with the final photos is footage of Burtynsky at work at numerous sites, including a Chinese factory the size of small city; a sprawling recycling dump; and the Three Gorges dam, a gargantuan construction that will ultimately require 15 years to build.

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