Where design and sustainability cross paths

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Finding Solutions


Finding Solutions from Mark Dworkin on Vimeo.

Since 1987, Moving Images Video Project has produced and distributed television documentaries that encourage peace, justice, and environmental preservation. This video is a preview for a series of documentaries about real solutions to environmental and social sustainability. In a time when sustainability is a catchphrase, some people really are discovering more earth-friendly ways to live, grow food, and do business for example while being more respectful of our environment and improving lives.

Finding Solutions is a a documentary series on sustainability. It’s a presentation of stories about people and societies, highlighting individuals who have found better, greener and more improved ways to live. Covered in the segment are case studies including Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil considered to be one of the most sustainable cities in the world. Kerala, a state in India known for its high standard for health and society. Farmers markets in North America, where farmers are rediscovering that organic methods are actually better all around. Sophisticated industrial cooperatives in Italy are creating serious competition for big international corporations while providing good employment and offering the highest standard of living in the country.

Moving Images Video Project is a non-profit corporation based in Washington state.

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China, From Red to Green


China, From Red to Green from Free More News on Vimeo.

This amazing PBS show is called e². It’s a documentary-style television series produced by Kontent Real and sponsored by Autodesk. The ongoing series is focused on the economies of being environmentally conscious. Shot completely in HD, the e² documents efforts on a global level to solve issues of energy, waste, health, policies, and sustainable communities to name a few topics. The focus is on innovators who are actively reducing the negative impacts that humans have had on the environment. Through interviews with experts, policy-makers and pioneers from all different disciplines, the show offers extremely important insight into the issues that are facing us and the amazing solutions we are realizing as elements of sustainability are beginning to come to fruition.

For more information, visit the PBS e² Website.