California Academy of Science Rain Forest
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2009
Rain forests; global warming; making fuel from algae; college dorm residents practice being green; an organic garden.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2009
Rain forests; global warming; making fuel from algae; college dorm residents practice being green; an organic garden.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2009
Composting; an organic garden; using good bugs to control bad bugs in order to grow flowers sustainably; high-school students run a recycling program.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2009
A new use for used cooking oil; using methane gas from trash; old electronic gear; teens do residential energy audits.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2009
Recycling; the four R's; an art teacher who uses recyclables; organic food in a school cafeteria; bamboo bicycles.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2009
The Monterey Bay Aquarium; trash in the bay; coastal wetlands; fuel cell cars.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2009
Competitors design and build the greenest, most energy-efficient houses; the world's largest laser; returning seven sea lions to the ocean; underwater noise pollution; a teen spearheads a drive to plant a million trees.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2009
Professional sports teams keeping up with the green revolution; using balloons to capture the sun's energy; environmentally conscious trends in the building design and construction industry; a teen eco-crusader.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2009
Locally grown organic produce; a sustainable-living community; what some restaurants do to be sustainable; a teen committed to stopping global warming.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2009
Girl Scouts clean up a beach; the Pacific Garbage Patch; Earth Day; two teens aim to reduce the amount of plastic in products and packaging.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2009
Water monitoring; biofuels; teens turning green; the BioSITE program.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2009
A high school practices sustainability on campus; buildings that save energy, water and resources; a line of clothing made of vintage and organic fabrics; possible future careers in renewable energy.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2009
Organic surfboards; a garbage audit; wind energy; the solar industry.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2009
A new, green high-school building; food justice; plastic bottles are taboo at a school; an American teen develops a program for farmers in India.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2010
Planting seedlings at the Breaking Ground Conference; Students for Solar Schools; an insect museum; NASA's JPL laboratory.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 20, 2010
Team Marine at Santa Monica High School; San Francisco's Urban Youth Sprouts; the cast and crew of the ``Green Screen.''
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2010
Algalita Marine Research Foundation; teens build a compost bin; The Green Girls eco-party.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 2010
Cooking stoves that use wood and coal; the founder of the Green Youth Movement; inspiring teens.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 11, 2010
Teens help to do research with DNA from thousands of years ago; using satellites to study the oceans; teens mentor younger children; the Climate Project's Inconvenient Youth Program.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2010
Returning sea lions to a marine sanctuary; the man who organized the first Earth Day; the Monterey Bay Aquarium; eco-friendly surfboards.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2010
Project Jatropha; a drive to plant a million trees across the U.S.; eco-friendly clothing; taking a message of climate change to students in China.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2010
The ebb and flow of the sand-crab population affects the food chain; students create a garden from scratch; household toxins; gleaning rejected crops provides schools with healthier lunches.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2010
High-school students do habitat restoration, vertebrate cataloging, creek mapping and biological assessment.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2010
Young people help to restore an overgrown grove of redwood trees.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2010
A landfill and a compost heap; a materials-recovery facility; an e-waste facility.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2010
Cataloguing trash on the beach and in the ocean; restoring a native habitat for indigenous plants and animals; growing organic vegetables and learning about life; lobbying politicians for safe cosmetics.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 6, 2010
Girl Scouts adopt a beach; teens teach younger children about river ecology; high-school students create a garden; making bio-diesel fuel from discarded restaurant grease.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2011
Cotton has a big footprint because growers use lots of pesticides and water, but some farmers do things differently.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2011
The Marine Mammal Center rescues animals injured by trash in the oceans.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2011
A family tears out its car's gas engine and puts in a new electric motor.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2011
The California Academy of Sciences indoor rain forest.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2011
Alternative energies and alternative fuels.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2011
A school chef changes the menu and provides fresh, organic, healthy foods for students.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 2, 2011
Teen climate crusaders have different approaches to their dedication.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2011
Connecticut works to reduce its carbon footprint, to encourage the development of clean energies, and to provide students with environmental opportunities.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2011
The Yale Sustainable Food Project; the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2011
A teen builds his own minihouse to minimize his environmental footprint.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2011
Teen contestants submit videos demonstrating how actions can affect the environmental health of the oceans.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2011
Guitar manufacturers work together to harvest tone wood sustainably and responsibly.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2011
Paints, aerosols, pesticides, household cleaners, batteries and CFLs may contain carcinogens; how to discard them so that they do not get into the environment and the water supply.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2011
The Bohart Museum of Entomology displays more than 1 million insects and other invertebrates; climate change affects butterflies.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2011
Human actions affect the food chain in the oceans, protection of marine life and the health and beauty of beaches; teens document the sand-crab population.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2011
Recycled plastic is made into something else.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2011
Schools work together to get solar power installed at their facilities.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2011
Project Green Challenge; Rocket Farms; a recycled-paper mill; young activist Alec Loorz.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2011
Project Open Hand prepares meals for elderly and seriously ill people.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 19, 2011
Teens restore a creek, a redwood grove and a natural marsh.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2012
The Oakland Zoo; squirrel monkeys; Trips for Kids; Girl Scouts restore a natural habitat for salmon.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2012
Plastic waste in the oceans; rescuing marine mammals; NASA studies the oceans.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2012
A Green Academy; building a compost bin; mentoring younger children; Earth Day.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2012
A school does everything it can to be sustainable; gleaning crops; college students build green, energy-efficient houses; teens plant seedlings and create art from trash.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 23, 2012
Buildings' energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions; solar balloons; changing the future of fuel; stoves that use wood and coal.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 30, 2012
The founder of the World Energy Project; improving life in African villages; high school invention team.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: May 7, 2012
Tide pools left during low tide on the California coast.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2012
The largest of the California Channel Islands; the Nature Conservancy.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2012
Dartmouth University students travel across the country spreading the message of sustainability.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2012
Environmentally responsible guitars.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2012
Mr. Eco, Brett Edwards, saves the planet one rap verse at a time; sea-otter rescue; the Electric Vehicle Rally & Car Show.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2012
The entire recycling process; a materials recovery facility; a plastic reuse center.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2012
Jordan Howard is a teen keynote speaker, book editor, video producer and director, developer of Rise Above Plastics for Teens and board member for several environmental organizations.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2012
Alternative energy; new sources for bio-fuel; a community's program to save energy.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2012
High-school students combine water and sunlight to create a new kind of renewable power; students prepare for green jobs; a sustainable school building; teens test the waters of lakes and streams.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2012
Coho salmon; tide pools; rescuing duck eggs; the greater sandhill crane.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2013
American students design and install solar energy systems at hospitals, clinics and schools in Africa; the Oakland Zoo; Project Green Challenge; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2013
Trips for Kids, the Re-Cyclery Thrift Shop and the Earn-a-Bike Program; Surfing for Change; Common Ground.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Apr 15, 2013
Being in style while saving money and protecting the planet; the Green Festival in San Francisco; buying locally.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2013
Clean, quiet, fuel-efficient buses; plastic trash in the oceans; exotic pets.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2013
Planting redwood trees; an urban farm; recycling textiles.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2013
The Monterey Bay Aquarium; rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing sea otters; plastic trash in the oceans; climate change.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2013
Restoring wetland areas; Girl Scouts help to restore a natural habitat for salmon; teens help to restore an overgrown grove of redwood trees; high-school students become interns for the Nature Conservancy.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2013
An inner-city farm; Yale University; gleaning; healthy, sustainable food.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2013
Rapping superhero Mr. Eco; activists at the Brower Center; Ally Maize, founder of the Green Youth Movement.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2013
Alternative fuel/energy vehicles; Electric Vehicle Rally & Car Show; a family greens up a Volkswagen Beetle; the Big Green Bus.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2014
Children search a farm's fields for duck eggs to save them from destruction; high-school students capture foxes on Santa Cruz Island; documenting sand crabs; using animal waste.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2014
High-school students help to bring electricity to people around the world; designing and building a house; the Monterey Bay Aquarium's WATCH program.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2014
A college has zero net energy as its goal; smart lights; high-schoolers can attend a three-year environmental science and design program.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: May 12, 2014
A high-school student starts a campaign to save water in the community; teens perform home energy audits; fourth graders conduct a campus-wide trash audit; middle-schoolers get a climate-change lesson.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: May 19, 2014
Chef Jamie Oliver's Big Rig Teaching Kitchen; a facility uses leftover food and other green waste to generate electricity; sisters use their entrepreneurial spirit and musical talents to help people in need.
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2014
The University of California, Davis, is one of the greenest schools in the country.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2014
The Arcade Creek Project; Green Energy Technology Academy; GEO Academy; teens design and build a home.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2014
The effects of ocean acidification on marine life; a hydrogen fuel cell research project; a family coffee business restores habitats, improves the lives of farmers and turns around the environment.
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2015
Solar panels power a large turbine; growing salmon in rice fields; zero litter.
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2015
Raptors; box homes for barn owls; the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Green Chemistry; a youth writes books about protecting the planet.
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2015
Hundreds of sea lion pups are found stranded and starving along the California coast; a bee research facility; e-waste recycling.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2015
Eating healthy; an urban farm; chef Jamie Oliver's Big Rig Teaching Kitchen; gleaning rejected crops.
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2015
Using hydrogen for power; cars and buses of the future; fuel cell power plants.
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2015
The Oakland Zoo; squirrel monkeys; exotic pets; Star Eco Station; green teens mentor younger children.
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2015
An NFL stadium earns LEED Gold Certification; the Solar Decathlon.
Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2015
Good businesses; green guitars; recycling clothes.
Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2015
Gathering data on beach trash; planting trees worldwide; young sisters help people in need.
Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2015
Global warming; greenhouse gases; how ocean acidification affects marine life; NASA.
Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2015
Tapping into the heat deep in the Earth to create steam to produce electricity on a large scale; the largest geothermal power facility in the world.
Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2016
The sustainable-living community at the Solar Living Institute; urban youth learn ``green'' job skills; high school students teach children about river ecology; a museum of insects and invertebrates.
Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2016
The Algalita Marine Research Foundation; plastic in the Earth's oceans; Earth Day founder Denis Hayes; making surfboards with nontoxic and sustainable materials.