Saluting Earth Day | PBS programs
Western Reserve PBS (WNEO 45.1/WEAO 49.1) will salute Earth Day — April 22 — with the following TV programs about the natural world, environmental change and green technology.
“Designing Healthy Communities”: Sundays, April 1, 8, 15 and 29 at 3 p.m. This four-part series highlights people and communities trying to balance health and nature with work, play and life, and offers best-practice solutions for all citizens.
“Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience”: April 3 at 9:30 p.m. This documentary remembers the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee Dam in the wake of the Great Depression and the native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers.
“America Revealed”: Wednesdays, April 11-May 2 at 10 p.m. This four-part series reveals the interdependent networks that feed and power the nation, produce goods, transport people and make America work.
“Nova, Deadliest Tornadoes”: April 11 at 9 p.m. In April 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the country. Is our weather getting more extreme — and if so, how bad will it get?
“American Masters, John Muir in the New World”: April 16 at 10 p.m. Discover the story of the Sierra Club’s Scottish-born founder, who influenced modern environmentalism.
“Nature, River of No Return”: April 18 at 8 p.m. A young couple’s romantic adventure in an Idaho wilderness area turned into something much greater.
“Independent Lens, Revenge of the Electric Car”: April 21 at 11 p.m. Film goes behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the resurgence of electric cars.
“Energy Quest USA, Earth: The Operators’ Manual”: April 22 at 7 p.m. An operators’ manual helps keep your car or computer running at peak performance. Earth science can do the same for the planet.
“Nature, Radioactive Wolves”: April 25 at 8 p.m. This film examines the state of wildlife in Chernobyl’s radioactive zone.
“Nova, Secrets of the Sun”: April 25 at 9 p.m. With the help of new spacecraft and earth-based telescopes, scientists are seeing the sun as they never have before and even re-creating in labs what happens at the very center of the sun.