Dawn Productions
About this original series
The Dawn team developed and produced an engaging series of 5-6 minute mini documentaries for RiverWired.com which present intimate glimpses into the wider green movement through the eyes of individuals and organizations who are trying to make a difference.
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# Episodes
16 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of Dawn Productions
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Green a Roof, Cool a City
If there's nowhere else to put it, pile it right on top! That's the philosophy behind urban green roofs, which add much needed green space to otherwise uninviting city landscapes. This video takes us to two of New York's most impressive green roofs to find out how they can help cities cool off and clean up. At state of the art research station on the roof of Silvercup Studios in Queens, we talk to green roof specialist Leslie Hoffman about how a few plants can reduce water pollution, cool an "...
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Release date
Dec 7, 2007
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Runtime
05:00
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Clean and Green in NY. Meet Battery Park City.
Imagine yourself in a modern green riverside community with sleek, energy efficient buildings, lush, pesticide-free parks, excellent schools, clean streets, cooperative composting programs, and sustainable systems everywhere you turn. No, you're not in Norway. Look again. You're in Manhattan. Yes, overcrowded, cutthroat, dirty, impersonal New York City. Battery Park City, in fact, a landfill neighborhood that juts out into the Hudson on the southern- most tip of the island. Over the past decad...
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Release date
Dec 7, 2007
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Runtime
06:08
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Poop at the Zoo: Bronx Zoo Eco Restrooms
What's the scoop on poop? This video takes you to the Bronx Zoo's new Eco Restrooms, where each flush gives back to the earth thanks to hyper-efficient water recycling renovations. We check out how the zoo's new bathrooms take freshening up into the future with recycling systems that help you waste less water and use fewer materials. Between gray water reused as fertilizer and rainwater collection for irrigation, the surrounding gardens have plenty to grow on. And we meet zoo administrators wh...
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Release date
Dec 7, 2007
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Runtime
04:57
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Greencorps: Chicago Trains the Workers of Tomorrow
The people over at Chicago's City Hall must be feeling pretty clever right now. People need jobs. Chicago needs to be greener. Why not create jobs that green the city? Chicago's Greencorps program does just that, providing jobs that beautify neighborhoods and benefit the environment. In this video we meet the people who are working these new 'greencollar' jobs, earning a living while learning valuable skills and training for the future. From a woman who used the program to turn her love for ga...
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Release date
Dec 7, 2007
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Runtime
05:55
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Greening a Brownstone
Attention all brownstone daydreamers (if you're eco savvy that's a plus)! Pulse follows green builder Blake Holden as he turns a dilapidated Brooklyn brownstone into a vintage green home for the average New Yorker. Blake guides us into the construction site and through the renovation process for a peek at all the ways this eco living space is building on solid foundations. While reclaimed wood and materials preserve the look and feel of a classic brownstone, energy-saving features like blue je...
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Release date
Dec 6, 2007
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Runtime
05:00
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Raising Animals Green the Stone Barns Way
Here?s the problem with all those cute, cuddly animals out there: sometimes they taste good. Not to worry, the livestock managers at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in the New York City suburbs may well have found a cure for the standard bout of carnivore?s remorse. At Stone Barns livestock are raised the way nature intended: free-range, without chemicals, and in harmony with surrounding ecosystems. In return, the animals fertilize crops and pastures, creating a diversified, produc...
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Release date
Dec 6, 2007
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Runtime
06:09
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Compliments of the Farmer: Local Cuisine at Blue...
Sitting down to dine at Blue Hill Restaurant, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, you'll have the chance to meet all the people who make your meal happen: the host, your waiter, perhaps the chef... and your local farmer. Actually, the guy who grows your food probably won't be able to make it in person, but with the way the Blue Hill staff talks about him, you'll feel like you've met him. It's this relationship that makes the dining experience at Blue Hill, where owners and staff believe that kno...
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Release date
Dec 6, 2007
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Runtime
04:57
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Know Your Roots: Apples at Stone Ridge Orchard
When is a non-organic apple better than an organic one? When that non-organic apple is grown on a local farm that practices sustainable agriculture. In this video we head to Stone Ridge Orchard, located in the Hudson River valley two hours north of New Your City, to see how they are using progressive ecological farming methods to produce apples that are good tasting, good for the land, and good for your health. We learn that sustainable farming can't always be pesticide free, but can use natur...
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Release date
Dec 6, 2007
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Runtime
05:13
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Urban Farming: Hydroponics in the City
Keeping agriculture sustainable increasingly means keeping it local. Besides the environmental benefit of reducing reliance on fossil-fuel guzzling transportation, eating local food is a more seasonal and often healthier experience. With concern about food security growing, it might turn out to be safer, too. The folks in charge of the Science Barge, a new urban farming experiment in New York, are bringing local food production closer than ever. In this video we take a tour of the floating gre...
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Release date
Dec 6, 2007
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Runtime
05:50
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Chicago Green Renaissance
The Windy City. City of the Big Shoulders. Chi-Town. Chicago has always had plenty of nicknames, but the Second City's industrial past has also left it with plenty of pollution. In this video, though, we meet the city planners who are replacing Chicago's gritty landscape with a cleaner, safer, greener urban system. We start at the top of City Hall, whose green roof is an eco-system of its own, teeming with flora and fauna and complete with a bird house and a productive honeybee colony (rare, t...
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Release date
Dec 5, 2007
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Runtime
06:01
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