VPT’s ReGeneration Returns, Permaculture Program on Vermont Public TV ith PC Designer& Teacher Claude Genest

www.claudegenest.com/regenerationshow/index.html

Regeneration empowers viewers with sustainable solutions on the large-scale industrial level, the small-scale home level, and the surprising examples in-between.
The environmental “debate” has been derailed by fears of having less. However, innovative companies, groups and individuals are proving that ecological solutions save time and resources, increase productivity and efficiency, regenerate the earth and generate profits. Our mission is to serve that message because what has become common sense for a few, needs to become common place for all.

Innovation and Inspiration
Each week we’ll visit the cutting-edge designers, visionary business leaders and everyday people applying their heart’s best intentions and mind’s best inventions to creating a sustainable future for all. Compelling viewing indeed.

Travel
Sustainable settlements are cropping up in the most “off the beaten track” places - Regeneration will take viewers to these exciting and exotic locations.

Outreach
Regeneration’s outreach will be bolstered by an extensive web site, an elegant coffee-table companion book, glossy how-to books, and a series of seminars and workshops all designed to bring Regeneration to middle America.

Animation
Some of these new ideas and processes can be lengthy to explain, but animation will describe them effortlessly. This will add variety to the show’s visual style.

Humor and Charm
Host Claude Genest’s humor, genuine enthusiasm and infectious positivity provide a refreshing change from dour environmental doom-sayers. His keen intellect and playfulness have already proved broadly appealing in the years he hosted Travel, Travel and starred in SIRENS.




VPT’s ReGeneration Returns, Adds Two New Programs Print E-mail
Saturday, 10 November 2007
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VPT’s ReGeneration Returns, Adds Two New Programs

Amid grim environmental news, there is hope and helpful advice in Vermont Public Television’s four-part series "ReGeneration With Claude William

Genest." Two programs that aired last spring and two new programs combine inspiration with practical ideas for sustainability.

In the first two programs, which will re-air Nov. 6 and 13 at 9 pm, environmental activist Genest visits pioneering Vermont business leaders, farmers and eco-designers in the forefront of using environmentally friendly practices.

The two new programs, airing November 20th and 27th at 9 pm, feature ways to sustain the planet that begin at home. The November 20th program finds Genest at his old farmhouse in Isle La Motte, Vermont, showing how he is using permaculture (permanent agriculture) to transform his land from lawn to a "multi-yielding food forest" with profitable food, fiber, fuel, forage and habitat, along with beauty and fun. In one segment of the program, Genest visits Elmore Roots nursery in Wolcott, where owner David Fried shows off a variety of food-bearing shrubs and trees, including kiwis, that homeowners can incorporate into a sustainable design. A privacy fence made up of various food-bearing plants is one of his innovations.

On November 27th, Genest assembles a team of Vermont eco-visionaries, landscape designers, energy experts and architects to explore eco-friendly ideas around the home. He tours several design projects around the state and gets a glimpse of the "green sustainable future." Bill Maclay of William Maclay Architects & Planners in Waitsfield, Ben Graham of Natural Design/Build in Plainfield and Amy Seidl of LivingFuture in Huntington offer practical solutions on renewable energy, home design and natural buildings. Laurie Smith and Rita Frederick of Shelburne give Genest a look at their straw-bale house.

Each program has a repeat broadcast the following Wednesday at 7:30 pm.

Although he acknowledges the challenges facing people who are looking for ways to counter environmental problems of crisis proportion, Genest is optimistic in celebrating the visionaries, the designers and the everyday people who, as he says, "are moving us from ‘something must be done to something we can do’."

Producers of "ReGeneration" are Claude William Genest and Vic Guadagno Executive producer is Enzo Di Maio. Production funding is provided by USDA Rural Development.

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