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Smart Living
Monday, February 12 at 10 p.m. et/pt
Traveling through Arizona, Chris, Nobu and Micah check out batteries made with pig manure, tour a self-sustaining, computer-controlled smart home, and make clean-burning fuel from brewery waste.
Desert Power
In New Mexico, Chris, Nobu and Micah help build an off-the-grid house out of tires, convert a car engine to electric, and then power it with the sun.
Self-Sustaining
Micah, Chris and Nobu travel from North Carolina to Colorado, where they learn to build homes that cost nothing to heat or cool, explore a new technology in manufacturing solar panels, and put a motor inside a unique new bicycle wheel.
Power Surge
Micah, Nobu and Chris travel down the East Coast, turning garbage into electricity in New Bedford, Mass., generating power with revolving doors in New York City, and making biodiesel from algae in Norfolk, Va.
New Cool
The gang hits Troy, N.Y. to see an invention that transforms sound waves into refrigeration, then modify a Vermont ski lodge kitchen to take advantage of cold outside air, and make clean water in a toxin-free sewage treatment facility.
Less Landfill
In New York state, Chris, Nobu and Micah learn how to make biodegradable plastic, a skateboard with soy, hemp and bamboo, and home insulation with mushrooms.
Deep Fried Diesel
Get in the van with Chris, Nobu and Micah as they convert their diesel guzzling bus to run on pure vegetable oil, learn to make bio-diesel and explore cutting edge hybrid vehicle technologies.
Human Powered
Nobu, Chris and Micah get the solar tech lowdown from California solar pioneers, install a panel to their bus, build a bike out of bamboo and then head to Oregon test drive the The Human Car.
Sun Power
Chris, Nobu and Micah battle veggie engine trouble on the road to exploring solar concentrators, micro-hydro power generation, state-of-the art lighting alternatives and solar ovens.
Dirt Rules
Big trek to the Midwest where Micah, Chris and Nobu get their hands dirty building a green roof for their bus, reclaiming a wetland with recycled pop bottles, and making worm compost for a self-sufficient urban farm.
Innovative Alternatives
Chris, Nobu and Micah explore Midwest farming innovations where they help turn cow manure into electricity, soy into roof coatings and straw into natural home insulation.
Eco-Energy
Chris, Micah, and Nobu check out bike-powered electric generators in Illinois, build wind turbines to power a house built out of recycled material in upstate New York, and run into bus problems that threaten to derail the road trip.
