Cheap and abundant fossil fuels once seemed inexhaustible. But now an ever larger proportion of an ever-growing population is joining the developed world. Where will we get the energy to support all this growth? One answer is to build homes with natural energy efficiency. Find out how to turn your home into an Eco House. GO
Much of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits on top of a 55-acre oil spill that is 50% larger than the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. Decades of oil refining on the industrial Newton Creek left 17 million gallons of oil under the ground and in the water. About half of that oil has been cleaned up - leaving some 8 million gallons.
Dr. Majora Carter connects poverty alleviation and the built environment, talks about public TV, what led her to the Bronx River Cleanup project and founding Sustainable South Bronx. This closing address was given for the 2008 Teaching & Learning Celebration.
Exposé executive producer Tom Casciato talks to James O’Shea, former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, about the changing nature of the newspaper industry. How much profit is–or ought to be–enough for a newspaper like the Times? GO
This week Religion & Ethics Newsweekly shows how two families have made efforts to observe Passover in their own ways.
Designed for Pleasure (on exhibit now at the Asia Society and Museum) examines Ukiyo-e (pronounced oo-key-yo-ay), the paintings and woodcuts that depict the “floating world”: Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries.
Last year, the deforestation of the Amazon rose sharply after three consecutive years in decline. Alarmed, the Brazilian government responded by launching Operation Arc of Fire, a campaign to deter illegal logging that has sparked controversy since it began in February.
Richard Price, whose eighth novel Lush Life (FSG) came out last month, discusses the decade-long shift in the cultural landscape of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Princeton Professor Stephen Paul is converting an unused plant in Trenton, NJ to process organic waste for fuel.
Just back from being under fire in Iraq, Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers Leila Fadel conveys what the war has meant to ordinary Iraqis and captures the dangers faced by soldiers and the reporters covering their efforts in Iraq. Leila Fadel will be taking viewer questions on The Moyers Blog.



