Natural Heroes Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Acting Locally 1

  People use innovative technologies to clean water and land.

• Acting Locally 2

  People across the country use innovation to clean up air and land.

• Big Apples, Big Ideas

  Apple growers go out of business in Washington state; urban composting.

• Brower Youth Awards

  Six young people are recognized for activism and achievements in environmental and social justice advocacy.

• Building Community With Greenspace

  Yale University students work with urban New Haven, Conn. neighborhoods to create green spaces, urban rehabilitation, safety and pride.

• Cascade of Light

  Friends from an urban culture follow a river to the Arctic Ocean.

• A Child's Garden of Peace

  Brazilian children create a community garden and celebrate with a carnival dance.

• Coffee to Go: A Fair Trade Story

  Students, coffee lovers and coffee farmers talk about the coffee industry.

• Connect: A New Ecological Paradigm

  Activists protect their environmental inheritance.

• East and West

  A war dance to protect Winnemem Wintu sacred sites on the McCloud River; Nu River in China; a group helps tribal members build straw bale homes.

• Eat at Bill's

  The family-owned Monterey Market is a produce market in Berkeley, Calif.

• Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness

  Author Edward Abbey was an advocate for environmental issues and criticized public land policies.

• Fruit Tree Tour

  Educators teach students about sustainable ecology through West African agricultural drumming and the planting of 1,000 fruit trees.

• Global Oneness

  Four short films encourage harmony between people.

• The Good Fight

  Martin Litton, who prevented dams from being built on the Colorado River, monitors illegal cutting of cathedral groves of sequoias and other virgin forests.

• International Animal Rescue

  Moon bears are freed from bile farms in China; sloth rescue center in Costa Rica.

• It's Not Just Empty Space, With David Suzuki

  Dr. David Suzuki explores what it means to be fully human in the interconnected universe.

• Justice for Bhopal: 20 Years Later

  Citizens fight for the cleaning of contaminated zones in Bhopal, 20 years after the Union Carbide industrial disaster.

• Last Journey for the Leatherback

  Scientists predict that the Pacific leatherback sea turtle could vanish within the next five to 30 years due to industrial fishing threats.

• The Last Stand: Heroes at the Ballona Wetlands

  Joni Mitchell's music accompanies a report on a wetlands controversy in Southern California; host Ed Asner.

• A Lot in Common

  Neighbors reclaim a vacant wasteland.

• Mama Earth: EcoEcon 101

  Achieving sustainability through reinventing old business methods, finding new paths to healthy communities and protecting natural resources.

• Napo Wildlife Center: Para los Futuros

  The people of Amazonian Ecuador saved 82 square miles of rainforest by building an eco-tourism lodge.

• Natural Balance

  The importance of fresh, local food; salmon; environmental art.

• The Naturalist

  Artist and woodsman John Muir spends his life observing and recording nature.

• No Room to Move

  Urban sprawl affects wildlife, but the practice of new urbanism could improve the situation.

• Oceans of Conservation

  The Titan people of Papua New Guinea are running out of fish.

• Oil and Water

  Two kayakers travel more than 21,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina in a retro-fitted Japanese fire truck.

• Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

  Cuba rebuilds its quality of life following the collapse of oil supplied by the former Soviet Union.

• Power Shift

  The possibilities of clean, renewable energy; host Cameron Diaz.

• Protecting America

  Dr. John Day discusses Mississippi Delta restoration and effective ways to rebuild; urban park caretaker.

• Ray Bandar, a Life With Skulls

  Scientist and researcher Ray Bandar has collected more than 7,000 bone specimens.

• Returning Home

  Biologists bring back a seabird colony wiped out by an oil spill.

• Richard Nelson's Alaska

  Richard Nelson spent years with the Alaskan Eskimo to learn how to survive on Arctic ice.

• Roll on Columbia

  Woody Guthrie writes songs about hydroelectric power in the Pacific Northwest.

• Saving Our Oceans

  What can be done to curb the drastic decline in fish populations in the world.

• A School in the Woods

  Outdoor learning centers such as IslandWood inspires environmental and community stewardship.

• The Sea and Me

  A girl helps everyone realize how to break a spell to save the ocean; the Mexican Riviera Maya.

• Sea Animal Rescuers

  A man battles nature, predators and poachers to save the Lora turtle; rangers run daily airboat patrols searching for sick birds in the Salton Sea.

• Solar Decathalon

  Students design and build a solar-powered home.

• The Soup Peddler

  A cyclist delivers homemade soup to his customers.

• South Central Farm: Oasis in a Concrete Desert

  The South Central Farm in Los Angeles is the largest urban garden in the United States.

• The Story of Stuff

  The underside of production and consumption patterns.

• Teachings of the Tree People

  Artist and Skokomish tribal leader Gerald Bruce Miller interprets the sacred teachings of the natural world.

• Texas Gold

  Fourth-generation fisherwoman Diane Wilson battles the petro-chemical industry; narrated by Peter Coyote.

• Transportation Solution

  Two activists unleash a bumper-sticker assault on SUVs in parking lots.

• Trash Is a Failure of the Imagination

  Artists recycle trash.

• Traveling Our Natural World

  New Zealanders turn to the wilderness to fathom their personal connection with the land; eco-tourism.

• Up Thornton Creek

  A city lets a developer build on a salmon stream, incensing the local people.

• Voyage of the Vezo

  The Vezo, the coastal society of southwest Madagascar.

• Watershed Heroes

  People fight to remove lead from school drinking water and convert an abandoned farm into a thriving wetland.

• Wings Over the Wild

  Pilots fly volunteer missions over threatened landscapes across Central America.