Sunday, June 1, 2008, at 11:00 pm • Wednesday, June 11 at 9:00 pm • Saturday, June 14 at 3:00 pm
A quiet green revolution in the building world is evolving, and a first wave of innovative green design projects large and small have already hit the ground. NJN’s one-hour high definition special Green Builders profiles a cast of green building pioneers who have taken the leap into making their part of the “built environment” a more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly place.
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| Writer/Producer |
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Bob Szuter |
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Elizabeth Christopherson
Janice Selinger |
| Camera & Audio |
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Mike Budd
Paul Horvath
Aubrey J. Kauffman
Scott Neall
Jeff Reisly
John Wynne |
| Original Music |
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Martin Trum |
| Graphics |
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Fred Ehmann |
| Post |
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Bob Herman |
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John Crowley |
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Lou Teti |
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Ben Goldstein
Dave Preston
Janos Sutyinszky |
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Kate Megargee |
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JoAnne Ruscio |
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Willow School: Anthony Sblendorio, Back to Nature, Inc. |
| Web Site Content Contributor |
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Deane Evans |
| Web Site Design and Development |
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Webmaster -
Juan Carlos Rojas
Web Editor -
Young Soo Yang |
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There is no single way to build green. Green Builders takes a wide-ranging look at a variety of approaches and levels of commitment and at the individuals who have helped turn green building theory into reality. These individuals are not just builders and designers; they’re teachers and homeowners, corporate leaders and academic specialists, leaders of institutions and universities as well as renegade inventors. From The Willow School to PNC Bank to the first solar-hydrogen home called The Hopewell Project, people talk about why they made the move to go green, what the challenges were, and how their project has fared. In most cases, one finds that a green building project has more to do with smart planning and a mindset change about energy use than expensive technologies or consumer sacrifice. Innovation helps, and there are plenty of innovations included in Green Builders that are making green technology effective and affordable. Geothermal storage, wind farms and extensive solar array systems are examined in the program. As the stories in the documentary demonstrate, it is crucial for us to change our perspective on how we build, recognizing the wasteful impacts of the traditional mode of building and operating our structures, and realizing the environmental and economic benefits of building green. Only then will the green building movement be successful.
The individuals in Green Builders have made the move to building green without suffering, sacrificing, or experimenting with a wispy might-happen. These are real projects on the ground, working businesses and college campuses that prove you can change your carbon footprint once you change your way of looking at how a structure operates. Collectively, the green builders are building the foundation for a more widespread movement toward making America’s built environment less harmful to the dwindling supply of healthy natural resources and even less expensive to operate. Their homes and offices are the proving grounds for green building, and their personal experiences reveal that building greener is less complicated and expensive than you probably thought, and more rewarding in the long run.
Major funding for Green Builders was provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
with additional support from the Cape Branch Foundation.
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