Life, but not as you know it…
With the pertinence of climate change in today’s society, Discovery Channel weighs into the green debate as it examines how humans may live in 2050. Ecopolis addresses the threats to the modern environment we live in and delivers possible future solutions to the planet’s biggest problems. Ground breaking series addressing climate change.
Episodes to include:
- Feeding all of those mouths – can we use urban gardens to feed the millions located in cities and cut down on the food-miles traveled, as well as put our consumption of meat to good use through methane capture.
- Alternatives to fossil-fuel travel – will cut down on the estimated 2 billion cars and the seven-fold increase in airline miles traveled expected by 2050.
- Disposing of waste – compiling it on a landfill island or putting it to use as gas plasma power.
- Housing the masses – how to make buildings more energy efficient and less wasteful, plus how to put larger volumes of people into a finite amount of space.
Dr. Kammen tops this whole “experiment” off with a look at the 20 most visionary world-saving innovations out there, then narrows this group down to the five most likely to succeed and picks the top solution that the world should focus on and urgently implement.
Dr. Kammen is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG), a professor of Public Policy, and a professor of Nuclear Engineering. In addition, Dr. Kammen is chief science adviser for the Barak Obama presidential campaign and has advised several foreign heads of state as well as non-governmental organizations. And if that isn't all, Dr. Kammen is also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).