[CitizensTruth] The Sundance Channel is extending the Green throughout the summer with some new programming:

[Daniel Stafford]

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> *The Sundance Channel is extending the Green throughout the summer 

> with some new programming:*

>

> Outrageous Wasters," a four-part series that follows a single family 

> through an ultra-crash course in eco-aware living, designed to 

> transform them from energy-guzzling "meanies" to tree-loving 

> "greenies" in two weeks.    Kicking off on July 29 at 9pm et/pt is 

> season 2 of "Its Not Easy Being Green." In eight thirty-minute 

> episodes three "green experts" travel around the British countryside 

> advising and assisting a range of citizens in realizing their eco goals.

>

> *_Tuesday, July 1^st       _*

>

> *9:00pm*

>

> *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 1 **(U.S. Television Premiere) -* 

> In the suburban town of Aylesbury, the Witheys -- Stella; Mark, her 

> husband of three years; and Stella's 14-year-old son Jak -- admit they 

> have given little thought to environmental issues.  They're a two-car 

> family, with loads of electronic gadgets and a rather cavalier 

> approach to consumption. 

>

> *10:10pm*

>

> */Wetlands Preserved /**(U.S. Television Premiere)/ /*-- Directed by 

> Dean Budnick.  From 1989 to 2001, Budnick chronicles the 

> environmentally friendly club's legend with rare vintage concert 

> footage and accounts from the club's former owners, rock critics, 

> musicians and club regulars.

>

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> * *

>

> *_Tuesday, July 8_*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> * **"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 2 **(U.S. Television Premiere) 

> -* The affluent Buchannan family -- John, Susan and their children, 

> 19-year-old Kris and 16-year-old Aimee -- share a sumptuous home near 

> Glasgow, Scotland.  They own three cars and a fourth vehicle is in the 

> offing; their meals are largely comprised of imported ingredients. 

>

> *10:10pm*

>

> *Garbage Warrior* *(Original Production)* -- Directed by Oliver Hodge 

> and co-production of Open Eye Media, ITVS International and Sundance 

> Channel.  This inspiring film profiles maverick architect Michael 

> Reynolds, who has spent thirty years developing radically original 

> models of self-sustaining housing near Taos, New Mexico.  **

>

> _ _

>

> *_Tuesday, July 15^th   _*

>

> *9:00pm *

>

> *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 3 **(U.S. Television Premiere) - 

> *The Fowlers of Dunkirk -- successful entrepreneur Roger; his wife 

> Nicola; and their children, 15-year-old Francis, 13-year-old Jonathan 

> and 9-year-old Katya -- have a carbon footprint five times the British 

> national average.  They play loads of games, have a shocking number of 

> TVs, and host weekly parties that generate lots of empty bottles and 

> leftover food -- all of which ends up as landfill event.

>

> *10:10pm*

>

> */In the Pit/** **--** *Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo. To give a human 

> face to seemingly unendurable labor, Mexican documentarian Rulfo 

> visited a major construction site as workers toiled to build an upper 

> deck of Mexico City's immense Periferico Highway.  Grand Jury Prize 

> for World Documentary, 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

>

>  

>

> *_Tuesday, July 22^nd     _*

>

> *9:00pm *

>

> *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 4 **(U.S. Television Premiere) - 

> *Hairdressers/salon owners Stewart and Anji Armodtrading live 13 miles 

> outside of London in Maidenhead, sharing a home with their 21-year-old 

> year daughter Shanelle, their 18-year-old daughter Strong, and 

> Strong's friend, 17-year-old Carla.  Anji runs about 35 loads of 

> laundry per week, and computer programmer Shanelle ends each day with 

> a luxuriant bath

>

> *10:10pm***

>

> */Genesis/** (Sundance Channel Premiere)* *--** *Directed by Claude 

> Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou.  From the French team behind the 

> /Microcosmos/ comes this bewitching look at the origins and evolution 

> of life on Earth. 

>

> *_ _*

>

> *_Tuesday, July 29^th      _*

>

> *9:00pm *

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 1 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere) **--** *In the borough of Wirral in northwest 

> England, Dick meets Helen and Russell Keenan, who have ambitious plans 

> for a self-sufficient eco-compound. 

>

> *9:35pm***

>

> */The Greening of Southie/** **--** *Directed by Ian Cheney.  This 

> documentary goes behind the scenes and onto the scaffolds to follow 

> the construction of Boston's first green residential building, a 

> luxury condominium complex called the Macallen. 

>

> *_ _*

>

> *_Tuesday, August 5 _*

>

> *August 5^th at 9:00pm*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 2 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)* Dick and James meet sisters Jake and Candy 

> Moriarty, who have sold the family B&B and now want to create an 

> eco-friendly campsite on land they own in Cornwall. 

>

> * *

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */The Unforeseen/** (Television Premiere) *Directed by Laura Dunn.  

> Combining lyrical cinematography, illuminating archival footage and 

> even-handed reportage, Dunn maps three decades of conflict between 

> real estate developers and community-based conservationists in Austin, 

> Texas.  Executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford.

>

> *_ _**__*

>

> *_Tuesday, August 12 _*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 3 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)* Dick meets Chris and Carla Fletcher, rat-race 

> refugees who have settled in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to grow their own 

> food and raise livestock (including an unusual breed of sheep). 

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Grass /*-- Directed by Ron Mann.  While it's unlikely to change US 

> drug policy, this entertaining documentary chronicling the bizarre 

> 100-year history of laws against the use of marijuana may prompt 

> outrage, discussion and a perverse sense of nostalgia.

>

>  

>

> *_Tuesday, August 19_*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 4 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)* James meets Maggie of Staffordshire, who is 

> renovating her 1930s house in a thoroughly eco-friendly fashion, 

> re-using original fixtures and as many eco-friendly materials as 

> possible. 

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Ice Breaker/** (Television Premiere)* -- Directed by Jody Shapiro 

> and David Best.  This documentary captures 42 days onboard a Canadian 

> Coast Guard ship as it sails from Newfoundland to the high Arctic, 

> patrolling some of the most spectacular and dangerous waterways on the 

> planet.  **

>

>  

>

> *_Tuesday, August 26_*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 5 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)* At New House Farm, James recruits his friends 

> and his sister Charlotte help dig a new pond to attract more wildlife 

> -- and give the family's ducklings their own home.  Dick meets with 

> East London resident Andrew Martin, who wants to install a solar hot 

> water heater in his back garden

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Everything/**/'/**/s Cool/* -- Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith 

> Helfand.  Mixing humor with urgency, Gold and Helfand /(Blue Vinyl)/ 

> profile the small group of global warming messengers who continue to 

> prod a largely apathetic public into political activism.

>

> *_ _*

>

> *_Tuesday, September _*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 6 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)* In Lincolnshire, we meet Zannah and Arthur, who 

> are renovating a 200-year-old cottage that has no onsite heating source. 

>

>  

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Somba Ke: The Money Place/* -- Directed by Linda Henningson, Petr 

> Cizek and David Henningson.  /Sombe Ke/ reveals the neglected story of 

> the remote Canadian region that supplied the Manhattan Project with 

> uranium for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs, and its dark and 

> disturbing legacy.

>

> *_ _*

>

> *_Tuesday, September 9_*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 7 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere)*:  In the seaside area of New Forest, Matt 

> Goldschmeid wants to make a permanent home of the lush vacation 

> property his parents bought in the 1980s. 

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Burning the Future: Coal in America /*-- Directed by David Novack.  

> West Virginia provides coal to produce electricity for half the 

> nation. Ironically, while preserving jobs, coal mining disfigures 

> mountainsides, destroys plant and animal species and spreads toxic 

> groundwater.

>

>  

>

> *_Tuesday, September 16_*

>

> *9:00pm e/p*

>

> *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 8 **(U.S. 

> Television Premiere* Dick and Jim visit a Cambridge mechanic named 

> Gary, who wants to save money by switching his car to biodiesel.  

> Using scrounged and free materials, the men construct a backyard 

> biofuel processor, which will convert used vegetable oil from the 

> local take-out restaurant.

>

>  

>

> *9:35pm*

>

> */Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa/** **--** *Directed by Jeremy 

> Stulberg and Randy Stulberg.  Some 400 people make their home on a 

> rugged 15-square mile stretch of New Mexico desert known as the Mesa.  

> Devoid of basic amenities like running water, paved roads and power 

> lines, the Mesa isn't an easy place to live, but it does offer 

> solitude and autonomy to those who need it, as well as an alternative 

> to contemporary consumer society.

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