Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:16:20 -0800
Duration: 177

http://www.riverwired.com The first of the Off The Grid series explores ways to lead a green lifestyle in the beautiful state of Hawaii. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the sunshine.

Author: riverwired
Added: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:16:23 -0800
Duration: 49

http://www.riverwired.com/ The Mississippi River has seen rapidly increasing levels of CO2 and river discharge over the past fifty years, as a result of the agricultural waste created by the thousands of farms that line its banks.

Author: riverwired
Added: Wed, 07 May 2008 13:46:20 -0800
Duration: 47

http://www.riverwired.com/ 311's funky bassist, Aaron P-Nut Wills, gets behind the wheel of the amazing (and pricey) all-electric Tesla roadster. Rad.

Author: riverwired
Added: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:49:31 -0800
Duration: 59

http://www.riverwired.com/ Scientists have found that some hard plastics contain endocrine disruptors, which apparently mimic hormones that regulate fat cell production in the human body. Perhaps it's time to stop handling all that plastic and pick up a cheeseburger...

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:47 -0800
Duration: 41

http://www.riverwired.com/ Linkin Park has already garnered a reputation as one of the most environmentally conscious rock bands. For their upcoming tour, however, they're taking things up a notch, from selling local, organic produce at shows to donating a portion of ticket sales to a tree-planting organization.

Author: riverwired
Added: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:49:35 -0800
Duration: 43

http://www.riverwired.com/ Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer has built a taxi that runs entirely on solar power -- and he's driving it across Australia to prove just how well it works!

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:49:40 -0800
Duration: 43

http://www.riverwired.com/ A team of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has conducted a study of the health of coral reefs in environments where water temperature was on the rise. The results they came up may surprise you...

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:19:31 -0800
Duration: 52

www.RiverWired.com Oscar Madison, one of television's most beloved-- and messiest-- characters, was recently on a ReclaimedHome.com list of the Greenest TV Characters of All Time. Why did this uber-slob make the cut? Check out this Celebrity Dirt to find out.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:16:21 -0800
Duration: 168

http://www.riverwired.com/ As dedicated cyclists -- both urban and suburban -- will agree, the bicycle is the greatest invention of the 19th century. Susan B. Anthony said it gave new freedom to women, to go where they needed to go with just a little pedal power. (OK, she didn't say that bit about pedal power, but she would have liked it.) And bikes are still providing the most fuel-efficient means of transporation since walking for all of us. Come take a tour of the Bicycle Museum -- and follow the intriguing past, present and future of the ever-green two-wheelers

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:16:23 -0800
Duration: 41

http://www.riverwired.com/ Jack Johnson's new album, the mellow, introspective Sleep Through The Static, was recorded entirely on solar power. Find out why his neighbors love him.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:22:31 -0800
Duration: 39

http://www.riverwired.com/ Prince Charles channels Star Trek in an effort to raise awareness about global warming.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:22:34 -0800
Duration: 41

http://www.riverwired.com/ Find out how this year's Grammy Awards Ceremony greened up its act, from reducing its carbon footprint to offering green gift baggies to guests and nominees.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:52:30 -0800
Duration: 39

http://www.riverwired.com/ New heat compressing technology allows you to keep your refrigerator nice and cold while significantly reducing your energy consumption. Check out this video to find out more.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:52:30 -0800
Duration: 38

http://www.riverwired.com/ You won't find Don Quixote fighting these windmills -- Argentina is using them to power a modern building. This clean wind energy replaces a good percentage of thermal energy—the kind that causes greenhouse gas emissions. The windmill technology in these eco-conscious buildings not only uses less energy, but even saves energy for future use, on non-windy days.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:22:34 -0800
Duration: 43

http://www.riverwired.com/ The Center For Biological Diversity has petitioned to include Alaskan walruses on the Endangered Species List, as rising temperatures have led to an alarming decrease in the ice on which the walruses reside.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:49:39 -0800
Duration: 35

http://www.riverwired.com General Motors, in an effort to improve its status as an eco-conscious corporation, has pledged to produce large percentages of ethanol-fueled cars in the years ahead.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:49:39 -0800
Duration: 42

http://www.riverwired.com/ The largest wind turbines the world has ever seen prove to be an invaluable addition to the arsenal of sustainable energy -- and that's not hot air, either.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:16:19 -0800
Duration: 38

Ever wonder what to do with that old, unsightly refrigerator that just won't work anymore? Check out this handy DIY video to find out how to give your tired appliance a new lease on life.

Author: riverwired
Added: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:16:19 -0800
Duration: 110

http://www.riverwired.com/ This is why insanity, driving and global warming don’t mix.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:34:06 -0800
Duration: 367

Imagine yourself in a modern green riverside community with sleek, energy efficient buildings, lush, pesticide-free parks, excellent schools, clean streets, cooperative composting programs, and sustainable systems everywhere you turn. No, you're not in Norway. Look again. You're in Manhattan. Yes, overcrowded, cutthroat, dirty, impersonal New York City. Battery Park City, in fact, a landfill neighborhood that juts out into the Hudson on the southern- most tip of the island. Over the past decade, starting long before sustainable communities were being planned or even thought about, this plot of property has developed into a model of urban sustainability. It's all thanks to the Battery Park City Authority, a partnership between New York City and State, which has indeed put its authority to good use by forging relationships with commercial and residential developers under one condition: that every new structure implement the highest level of sustainable technology. Now, Battery Park City boasts the highest concentration of green buildings of any neighborhood in the country. In this video, we meet Battery Park City’s activist leaders and learn about the neighborhood's famous buildings, including the Solaire, the nation's first sustainable high-rise residential structure, as well as its beautiful parks (maintained with neighborhood compost, chemical-free), green schools, and program that gives surplus revenue back to the city to fund affordable housing. We also learn how something called a heliostat can make it sunny even when you're in the shade. Next to a skyscraper. In New York City. To coin the Authority's catchphrase, Who Knew?

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:13:05 -0800
Duration: 312

When is a non-organic apple better than an organic one? When that non-organic apple is grown on a local farm that practices sustainable agriculture. In this video we head to Stone Ridge Orchard, located in the Hudson River Valley two hours north of New Your City, to see how they are using progressive ecological farming methods to produce apples that are good tasting, good for the land, and good for your health. We learn that sustainable farming can't always be pesticide free, but can use natural ecosystems and pests like aphids to reduce pesticide use and promote land stewardship. And we get an introduction to Stone Ridge's 'Know Your Roots' philosophy, which acknowledges that every farm is different, and that organic food is more than a label on your produce. Check out these apples' roots. You'll never look at a Granny Smith the same way again.

Author: riverwired
Added: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:42:56 -0800
Duration: 360

Chicago has been at the forefront of the green movement. Mayor Daley’s plan to make Chicago the greenest city in America and bring back bits of the prairie started in 2000 with a landmark roof garden on City Hall which has been replicated citywide with over 2.5 million square feet of planted rooftops. Chicago’s Commissioner of the Environment and other officials take us on a tour of a variety of Chicago’s green initiatives including the green roof on City Hall, a brownfields development, the computer recycling center, and the Center for Green Technology.

Author: riverwired
Added: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:00:31 -0800
Duration: 47

RiverWired shows you how to pick an apple.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:57:14 -0800
Duration: 299

All true greenophiles know, everything old is new again! This can apply to fashion, but for now we're talking about wood. Reclaiming, refinishing, and reusing discarded wood for new buildings, interiors, and commodities is a great way to save materials and take the strain off overloaded landfills. This Pulse video travels to North Carolina to visit the Whole Log Lumber mill, which purchases wood from demolition sites, fires, and trash heaps in order to revive and resell it. This place is the fountain of youth for worn out lumber, and the high quality of the semiprecious hardwoods that are routinely uncovered takes business away from rainforest-clearing loggers. It's enough to have sticklers for fine and rare wood muttering about the 'good old days.' But when we follow the wood back to Brooklyn, we find a restaurant under construction, using reclaimed wood from the Whole Log mill to finish a beautiful dining room. Easy, old timer. They're still making 'em like they used to.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:35:31 -0800
Duration: 296

Sitting down to dine at Blue Hill Restaurant, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, you'll have the chance to meet all the people who make your meal happen: the host, your waiter, perhaps the chef... and your local farmer. Actually, the guy who grows your food probably won't be able to make it in person, but with the way the Blue Hill staff talks about him, you'll feel like you've met him. It's this relationship that makes the dining experience at Blue Hill, where owners and staff believe that knowing where your food comes from is as important a flavor as any other in a good meal. Pulse talks with brothers Dan and David Barber, respectively Executive Chef and Owner of Blue Hill, to find out how they feel about local food, green markets, the restaurant business, and the responsibility of cooks and eaters to know more about the origins and story of their food, from farm to table. The restaurateurs chat about their main local supplier: the Stone Barns farm, where each pasture-raised turkey has its own personality and it's easy to get excited about a gushing tomato or a perfect carrot. And as for the farmer, yes, he's pleased to meet you, too.

Author: riverwired
Added: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:22:06 -0800
Duration: 290

Want to globetrot without the guilt of an oversized carbon footprint? Well relax and trot away, because many hotels have started making it easy to stay green while you're out on the road for business or pleasure. Manhattan's 70 Park Avenue boutique hotel is one place that believes hospitality is more than pillow mints and room service. As part of the Kimpton Hotel Group's EarthCare program they make an extra effort to keep wasteful practices to a minimum by using eco cleaning products, recycled papers, ‘low flow' water savers, donation programs, and an eco concierge who provides green information and services. Not to mention they'll set you up with a zero emission, man-powered pedicab so you can move around the city in style. Being green was never so luxurious.

Author: riverwired
Added: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:19:06 -0800
Duration: 368

Here’s the problem with all those cute, cuddly animals out there: sometimes they taste good. Not to worry, the livestock managers at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in the New York City suburbs may well have found a cure for the standard bout of carnivore’s remorse. At Stone Barns livestock are raised the way nature intended: free-range, without chemicals, and in harmony with surrounding ecosystems. In return, the animals fertilize crops and pastures, creating a diversified, productive and sustainable farm. Your entrée just became much more than just a piece of meat.

Author: riverwired
Added: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:34:20 -0800
Duration: 299

If there's nowhere else to put it, pile it right on top! That's the philosophy behind urban green roofs, which add much needed green space to otherwise uninviting city landscapes. This video takes us to two of New York's most impressive green roofs to find out how they can help cities cool off and clean up. At state of the art research station on the roof of Silvercup Studios in Queens, we talk to green roof specialist Leslie Hoffman about how a few plants can reduce water pollution, cool an "urban heat island" by 100 degrees, and improve air quality. And at the top of the Solaire in Manhattan, it's easy to feel cool while hanging out in their plush roof garden that adds beauty to functionality. These are some of the first green roofs in New York, and for the future the sky's the limit.

Author: riverwired
Added: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:13:06 -0800
Duration: 299

Attention all brownstone daydreamers (if you're eco savvy that's a plus)! Pulse follows green builder Blake Holden as he turns a dilapidated Brooklyn brownstone into a vintage green home for the average New Yorker. Blake guides us into the construction site and through the renovation process for a peek at all the ways this eco living space is building on solid foundations. While reclaimed wood and materials preserve the look and feel of a classic brownstone, energy-saving features like blue jean insulation and radiant floor heating minimize the home's carbon footprint. And natural building materials prevent toxic indoor air pollution, ensuring a safe, healthy living environment. The end result? The family home, recycled

Author: riverwired
Added: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:13:06 -0800
Duration: 296

Cutting edge design meets eco living? Sounds like you can have your cake and eat it, too. This video takes us to New York's HauteGREEN design exhibition that showcases the best in sustainable design for the home. We've never thought of recycling paper into "paperstone," a material hard enough to make chairs and countertops, but these 57 designers from around the world aren't pulling punches. From turning felt scraps into a rug you don't have to vacuum to growing air-purifying plants using solar panels, there are tons of great ideas here that will make you look twice. And greenest of all, these pieces are built to last, wasting fewer materials and making sure that our planet can last a little while longer, too.

Author: riverwired
Added: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:43:06 -0800
Duration: 354

This just in! Switching to alternative fuel for the home is officially completely easy. Pulse travels to Asheville, NC to find out how one community has already made the switch to biodiesel for home heating. Everyone's talking about how biodiesel is non-toxic, made from renewable resources, known to reduce engine wear, and possible to produce from your own home. So we talked to the guys at Blue Ridge Biofuels, as well as biodiesel-using homeowners, to get a first hand look at alternative energy use in action. On the way, we found out how throwaways from restaurants can fuel a community, what famous rock musician can't go without biodiesel when she's out on the road, and much more!

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:04:20 -0800
Duration: 298

What's the scoop on poop? This Pulse video takes you to the Bronx Zoo's new Eco Restrooms, where each flush gives back to the earth thanks to hyper-efficient water recycling renovations. We check out how the zoo's new bathrooms take freshening up into the future with recycling systems that help you waste less water and use fewer materials. Between gray water reused as fertilizer and rainwater collection for irrigation, the surrounding gardens have plenty to grow on. And we meet zoo administrators who have jumped at the chance to use the restrooms to teach kids about water use and climate change. And their message seems to be sinking in; we talk to one little girl who took the message to heart after being dazzled by the facilities! No one's worrying about potty mouths here. It's time to stand (or sit) up straight and be proud of what you have to offer the planet.

Author: riverwired
Added: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:13:06 -0800
Duration: 299

Ever wonder what it would take to turn your car into a green machine? With biodiesel, turns out it's not as hard as you might think. We're in Asheville, NC with the folks from Blue Ridge Biofuels, who explain how to make a "seamless" transition to fueling up with biodiesel including where to fill up and how much it will cost. We also find out what farmers and truckers think about the infrastructure of biofuel. And for all you DIY fans out there, we even catch a glimpse at how to fill up with plain, old, unprocessed vegetable oil. Meet the people who are driving biodiesel forward.