Across The World With Te Radar
Eco-adventurer Te Radar goes on a global quest to find the most spectacular feats of innovation in the fight to protect the environment. In this series Te Radar visits England, Dubai, Borneo, Africa, and China.
Transport
It’s back to the future as Te Radar visits Houston, Texas – the birthplace of American oil - to see how the DeLorean made famous by Michael J Fox has been rescued from the scrap heap and is now leading the way in cool electric transport.
Oil Free
Te Radar peers past peak oil to look at oil alternatives being developed in the USA made from all kinds of things like algae and alligator fat and also how a mix of sunlight and old fruit can create a fuel that can power an ordinary car.
Hidden Potential
It often takes brilliant minds to see past the surface and uncovers the hidden potential in everyday things. In this episode Te Radar looks at two weeds… one provides food and cleans water, the other makes houses, roads, bridges, bullet proof suits and even a really nice pizza.
H20
Te Radar discovers how the rain we often see as a hassle is really gold falling from the sky for lucky countries because in Australia, a place long known as The Lucky Country, it now takes billions of dollars to make drinkable water.
Local Food
Te Radar finds local food is a growing global concern but innovative New Zealand technology is protecting our ability to be able to prove where food comes from - testing that is helping stop criminals around the world misrepresenting what food is and where it is from.
Design
Hunting out green design leads Te Radar to the USA where old tyres, cans and bottles form homes of the future in a unique spot in Taos and he meets a chap who has been using rocks to air-condition his home for the last twenty years.
Natural Solutions
Te Radar travels to Cuba to discovers what happens when a country is forced to go back to nature and he draws on their experiences of ways to farm using natural solutions, without chemicals and often without modern machinery.
Land
Te Radar finds the Navajo Indians have a respect for Mother Earth we could all learn from and he goes back to class to find out when it comes to land the more you put in, the more you get out thanks to a school turning their grounds into the classroom of the future.
