Name: Across The World With Te Radar: Hidden Potential
Uploaded: 2013-12-31T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 23 min
Description: 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.

Te Radar goes global on an expedition of discovery to find innovative ways people are helping the environment. Looking at the future of cars sees Te Radar delivering wing mirrors made of potato starch to a Formula Three team in Britain… And after filling it up on diesel made from waste chocolate, he goes for a spin.

Across The World With Te Radar

Te Radar goes global on an expedition of discovery to find innovative ways people are helping the environment. Looking at the future of cars sees Te Radar delivering wing mirrors made of potato starch to a Formula Three team in Britain

Cars

Are there plenty more fish in the sea?  Global Radar tries a day of low impact fishing and then heads to the small island nation of Tonga to see how looking back will help them look forward to a more plentiful catch.

Fish

Palm oil is used in so many modern conveniences and that leads Te Radar to Borneo to see how that impacts Orangutans as their habitat is cut down to make way for the plantations that ensure we can have our favourite instant noodles, crackers, chocolate… even lipstick.

Palm oil is used in so many modern conveniences and that leads Te Radar to Borneo to see how that impacts Orangutans as their habitat is cut down to make way for the plantations that ensure we can have our favourite instant noodles, crackers, chocolate…

Sustainable Production

It's a messy business but Global Radar finds there is a big future in all kinds of waste and the value in what we flush or toss away is astounding… and while on his global mission a stop in China leads Te Radar to a man who has made over 60 robots from rubbish.

It's a messy business but Global Radar finds there is a big future in all kinds of waste and the value in what we flush or toss away is astounding.

Waste

Deploying his own tracking device, Te Radar tries to find out what happens to rubbish that washes into waterways and finds himself shocked by how much plastic floats across the world’s oceans only to soil pristine beaches in the South Pacific far from where those items were made or consumed.

Deploying his own tracking device, Te Radar tries to find out what happens to rubbish that washes into waterways and finds himself shocked by how much plastic floats across the world’s oceans only to soil pristine beaches in the South Pacific.

Pollution

Global Radar is looking for ways we can keep modern life powered up while the impact on the planet is dialed down and that means riding a solar bus quietly moving people around an Australian city and Te Radar joins a production line in China to see how new light bulbs save power.

Global Radar is looking for ways we can keep modern life powered up while the impact on the planet is dialed down and that means riding a solar bus quietly moving people around an Australian city.

Power

Te Radar heads off  to a town right beneath a South American mountain glacier that is dealing with water worries that should make us all sit up and take notice and he uses his own body to test a new way to make drinking water safe.

Water

Te Radar ponders what the future will bring and visits Rwanda to see how the country has changed its culture to preserve the mountain gorillas, and stops in at a sustainable city in Abu Dhabi to see how building a sustainable future is possible with the help of the world’s brightest young minds.

Te Radar ponders what the future will bring and visits Rwanda to see how the country has changed its culture to preserve the mountain gorillas, and stops in at a sustainable city in Abu Dhabi to see how building a sustainable future is possible with the h

Future

Pluto

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.

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 weed.

Hidden Potential

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.

Transport

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.

Oil Free

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.

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.

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.

Local Food

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.

Design

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.

Natural Solutions

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.

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.

Land

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.

Hidden Potential

Full Episodes

Season 2, 8 episodes