Watch these new shows staring tonight on Sundance Channel!

 

ECO TRIP: THE REAL COST OF LIVING is an eight-part original series exploring the origins and environmental impact of common everyday products. Hosted by eco-adventurer David de Rothschild, whose far-flung travels have garnered international attention, the half-hour primetime program investigates iconic items from cotton t-shirts and paper napkins to salmon and cell phones, and follows their life cycle from production to disposal, revealing the environmental, social and health effects along the way. “Eco Trip: The Real Cost of Living” inspires and educates viewers on what they can do to live a greener life. Episodes are: Chocolate, Cotton T-Shirt, Gold Ring, Paper Napkin, Light Bulb, Bottled Water, Cellphone, Salmon.

PREMIERES APRIL 21 9PM E/P

 

CARBON COPS follows six families as they are led through a fascinating step-by-step process of auditing their current use of energy in order to lessen their carbon footprint and the effects of global warming on the planet. Each episode of the six part series follows Carbon Cops Lish Fejer and Sean Fitzgerald as they challenge a household to reduce their domestic carbon emissions by 50%. In a manner that is refreshingly down to earth, Fejer and Fitzgerald blend science and the environment in simple and practical terms that are easily understandable, as they walk each family through the process of conserving energy and changing habits.

PREMIERES APRIL 21 9:30 PM E/P

 

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Appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

From South Africa and India to Bolivia and Michigan, Irena Salina's award-winning documentary presents a "galvanizing ... informed and heartfelt investigation" New York Times into the growing world water crisis. In the developing world, corporate interests and complicit governments have made drinkable water - previously a free natural resource - into the world's third-largest industry. Meanwhile, in the United States, bottled water is alarmingly unregulated and tap water may contain pollutants - even rocket fuel! "Smartly done" - L.A. Times.

PREMIERES APRIL 21 10PM E/P

 

ADDICTED TO PLASTIC

Filmmaker Ian Connacher conducts an international odyssey revealing the disturbing long-term effects of the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. From water bottles and Styrofoam cups to toothbrushes and garbage bags, in less than a century the pervasive presence of plastics has marked every ecosystem and all aspects of human activity. Visually compelling, entertaining and thought provoking, ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is both a wake-up call and an inspiring consideration of possible recycling or down-cycling solutions.

PREMIERES APRIL 28 10PM

(okay, tell me if you watch any of these and what you think!)