Design E² : the economies of being environmentally conscious Season 2

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Originally broadcast on television in 2007.

Special features: Discussion guide PDF.

Episode 1: The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh -- Episode 2: Greening the federal government -- Episode 3: Bogotá: building a sustainable city -- Episode 4: Affordable green housing -- Episode 5: Adaptive reuse in the Netherlands -- Episode 6: Architecture 2030.

Narrated by Brad Pitt.

Can the designers of the Druk White Lotus School in remote Ladakh, India, help preserve the region's cultural identity for future generations? Could architect Thom Mayne's new San Francisco Federal Building be the prototype for tomorrow's workplace? Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, transformed one of the world's most chaotic cities into a model of sustainable and civic-minded urban planning. Third-generation develop Jonathan Rose puts sustainable homes within reach of New Yorkers living in public housing. Dutch planners tap their innate design sensibility and the industrial landscape to create a uniquely sustainable development in Amsterdam's abandoned dockyard. Architect-turned-activist Ed Mazria founded Architecture 2030 to galvanize commitment to a carbon-neutral building sector by the year 2030.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

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