Video: Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America
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Kilowatt Ours | Meet the Team | PBS
A "thank you video" to everyone who donated recently to support Kilowatt Ours, and to introduce fans to our staff. Meet Jennifer, Lydia, Cara, Gretchen, and Dan. 09:49
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Kilowatt Ours | Full Program | PBS
Full Program: This acclaimed documentary provides a hopeful look at how energy conservation and renewable power can help to improve the quality of life in the Southeast. "Kilowatt Ours" also provides practical... 56:18
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Kilowatt Ours | Home Energy Tips | PBS
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Ten: Take the Kilowatt Ours Challenge | PBS
Here’s a challenge for all of us. Let’s reduce our electricity use by 25% or more in every home, school and business. As our electricity bills go down, let’s sign up for green power, at least one... 01:47
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Nine: Net-Zero Energy | PBS
This is the home of the Schiller family near Clarksville Tennessee, living completely off the grid. In other words, coal and nuclear free. 05:07
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Eight, Part Two: Alternative Energy Solutions | PBS
Being one of the most energy efficient states in the nation over the past thirty years, California has a lot to show the rest of the nation about how to mine for energy in all the right places.... 06:57
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Eight, Part One: Conservation Power Plant | PBS
If we find a way to generate the electricity we need by other means, we could minimize our use of coal to generate electricity. Austin, Texas has spent the last 30 years building a "conservation... 06:41
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Seven: In Search of Savings | PBS
Look at all the places we found where energy can be saved using technologies that we have available today. All we need to do is make use of them. 06:35
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Six: Changing Our Direction | PBS
Buildings in America consume nearly 2/3 of all the energy we use. The typical American home emits twice the annual global warming emissions compared the typical car. So, if we can make our... 07:42
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Five: Poisioning Our Grandchildren | PBS
Burning coal releases mercury into the atmosphere. We ingest this dangerous neurotoxin when we eat fish from polluted waters. More than 45 states now post statewide mercury advisories. According... 02:54
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Four: Altering an Eco-System | PBS
Our nation’s greatest natural treasures are suffering the consequences from our extreme use of energy. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most frequently visited park in America – 10... 02:06
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Three: Our Planet is Warming | PBS
Mountain top removal mining, air pollution, haze in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, methylmercury contamination of newborns, childhood asthma and global warming ALL stem from the same root cause. 05:48
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Two: Five Tons of Coal Per Year | PBS
Do you know where your electricity comes from? Most people don't realize that half of their electricity comes from burning coal, and lots of it. America burns 1 billion tons of coal each year... 02:39
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter One: Mountain Top Removal | PBS
Mountain Top Removal is a hideous practice of removing vast amounts of earth to extract small amounts of coal. The removed earth and rock is dozed over the edge into the valley floor below covering... 04:35
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Kilowatt Ours | Introduction | PBS
What if, every time we flipped a light switch at home, a mountain exploded in West Virginia, or every time we turned on the air conditioner in summer, a child suffered an asthma attack, or when we... 01:58
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Kilowatt Ours | Trailer | PBS
A glimpse of the award winning Kilowatt Ours documentary film being released for public television this fall. 02:08
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