e2 | PBS

e2 | PBS

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e2 | PBS episodes

  • The Druk White Lotus School - Ladakh
    The Druk White Lotus School was constructed despite challenges ranging from financing, to Ladakh, India's harsh climate and remote location. The school's founder, His Holiness The Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, describes how the school was built in stages, while architect Jonathan Rose discusses the plethora of fundraising sources used for expansion.
    5 min
  • Coal and Nuclear: Problem or Solution?
    A process called "carbon sequestration" may one day allow the United States and other countries to burn abundant coal reserves without emitting greenhouse gases. But the technology is far from complete, and some skeptics question its ability to effectively capture carbon dioxide. Learn more about the carbon capture process from leading researchers in the field.
    6 min
  • State of Resolve
    Terry Tamminen, a policy advisor to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on energy and environmental issues, helped draft much of the state's forward-thinking environmental policy. Tamminen discusses California's achievements, and the imperative of new laws and policies that promote sustainabile practices.
    5 min
  • Growing Energy
    The production of ethanol and other biofuels requires many of the same resources - such as arable land - as the production of food. As the biofuel industry expands in the United States and abroad, there is increasing question of how food production will be impacted. Experts discuss the tension between these two industries in Brazil and the United States, the world's two largest ethanol producers.
    6 min
  • Paving the Way
    Learn how ultra-lightweight materials are playing an increasingly crucial role in automobile design as manufacturers try to design more efficient vehicles. Jon Fox-Rubin, the president and C.E.O. of Fiberforge, demonstrates his company's production process for lightweight carbon fiber composites that will be used by the automotive industry.
    6 min
  • Energy for a Developing World
    Muhammad Yunus - the founder of the Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize-winner - describes his philosophy toward poverty, and how energy access can play a major role in poverty alleviation.
    5 min
  • Harvesting the Wind
    Learn how wind turbines are manufactured at the Suzlon Rotor Corporation in Pipestone, Minnesota, which supplies turbines to the state's rapidly expanding community-owned wind farms.
    5 min
  • China: From Red to Green?
    Tad Fettig, the director of the e2 series, shares his perspectives on filming in China as this sleeping giant of industry, technology and consumer demand awakens in the 21st century.
    4 min
  • Gray to Green
    A closer look at how much energy is used and how much pollution is created by construction. The impact on our environment is staggering.
    5 min

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e2 is an ongoing PBS documentary series that chronicles efforts to solve the world's most pressing ecological challenges. From energy consumption to design efficiency, policy to industry, the series…