On April 1st At 9:00 Pm E/p, Sundance Channel Premieres Season Two

Sundance Channel will launch season two of the award-winning original eco-series "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" beginning Tuesday, April 1 at 9:00pm e/p with "Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Power". The 13-part series, which features a cast of recurring expert commentators, including award-winning scientist, geneticist, and author, Dr. David Suzuki, GOOD Magazine Founder Ben Goldhirsh, and former Talking Heads frontman and bicycle advocate David Byrne who provide the big-picture context to each week's stories, airs as part of THE GREEN, Sundance Channel's weekly primetime destination focusing on environmental issues. The "Power" episode will be followed by the premiere of the inspiring documentary "Garbage Warrior" on April 1 at 9:35pm e/p.

"Big Ideas for a Small Planet" presents the forward thinking designers, products and processes that are at the forefront of a new green world. The second season premiere, "Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Power," explores alternative energy sources which have become big buzz and big business as governments, corporations and entrepreneurs race to develop the "next big thing." The episode takes viewers on a "highly-charged" tour through the alternative energy landscape, as it introduces several individuals who are working to develop clean, renewable energy from resources like the sun, wind and even cow dung.

"Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Power" makes a surprising stop at a dairy farm in rural Narvon, Pennsylvania, where after 150 years, the farm is trying something new. Owner Alfred Wanner, a blunt, hardworking fourth generation Pennsylvania dairy farmer is pioneering one of the first anaerobic digesters in his state. In laymen's terms, that means when Wanner says his cows are productive, he means their manure is collected, processed, and converted to methane energy. The Pride N Joy dairy farm produces 2000 kilowatts an hour. "Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Power" also showcases the latest innovations in solar power with a look at the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, where 20 universities from the U.S. and Europe compete to build the best fully functional solar home on the Washington Mall. With a per team budget of $100,000 dollars, the homes demonstrate the most cutting edge solar-powered appliances, lighting, and hot water systems. "Big Ideas" follows the team from Texas A&M as they compete against teams from the University of Colorado, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and the European favorite, Madrid for the crown. In addition, viewers will meet Joe Green, a man who took on the world to bring a new kind of power to his declining coal town in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania. Risking his family's savings, he gave himself a crash course in wind power and after four years of blood, sweat, bank loans, and permits, 13 new wind turbines stand on his property, providing more than just a futuristic view along the skyline. The Locust Ridge Wind Farm produces enough energy to power 6,500 homes annually, and has brought new jobs to the former coal-mining town.

Garbage Warrior, directed by Oliver Hodge, is an inspirational film profiling maverick architect Michael Reynolds, who has spent 30 years developing radically original models of self-sustaining housing near Taos, New Mexico. Working with a crew of like-minded idealists and professionals, Reynolds has channeled his unstoppable imagination into strange yet functional dwellings that are made from garbage like old tires and beer cans. With the colorful, passionate architect at its center, Garbage Warrior traces the difficulties of an iconoclastic career, from early experiments to heartbreaking setbacks to disaster relief projects at the other end of the world.

"Big Ideas for a Small Planet" is executive produced by Michael Williams, David Collins and David Metzler from Scout Productions and is overseen for Sundance Channel by Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development Lynne Kirby and Director, Original Programming and Development Samuel J. Paul.

With the launch of THE GREEN on April 17th, 2007 Sundance Channel became the first television network in the United States to establish a major regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. Big Ideas for a Small Planet" is produced by Scout Productions ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" NBC/Bravo and The Fog of War). Season 1 of "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" received the 2007 Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary.

The Green is presented by Lexus Hybrid Living and Citi Smith Barney.

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