If so, the Science Channel wants to
talk to you. They are doing a series that will feature inventors working
on green projects across the country -- here is your chance to get your idea to
a wide audience!
ABOUT THE SHOW
Trippin’ the Green Fantastic seeks out and gives light to
grassroots green inventors –those everyday folks who have taken it upon
themselves to create their own ingenious solutions to environmental
conundrums. The hosts –a couple of everyday guys who are passionate about
being green, hop aboard Lady a veggie oil fueled SUV and trek across America
on an awesome road trip adventure to find the homespun green gold –
those far out homemade eco inventions.
Every episode begins with the hosts driving Lady down a
stretch of highway enroute to visit their next backyard inventor –our hosts
have been a part of this quiet revolution, live and online, for years so for
our hosts these visits feel as intimate as visiting old friends.
Our hosts showcase three to four low-brow inventors every
episode. Soon after the introductions the guys’ passion and curiosity take
over –they explore the lives of the inventors to get a sense of the person and
why they took ‘going green’ into their own hands. What was the ultimate moment
of inspiration that moved them to action? What was the green problem that just
had to be solved? How was the contraption built? What tools did they use –from
duct tape to found items? Our hosts are fascinated by the processes of
prototyping, testing and final application. They want to learn everything
about the invention, including its limitations that perhaps they can help
solve.
To make the exploration show-don’t tell, our hosts get as
involved as possible with the inventor and his contraption –testing, tweaking,
rebuilding, enhancing and of course getting in the application of the
contraption, whether it’s testing out a toilet bowl sink invention, helping
build a solar panel from used CDs or tasting meals cooked in a dishwasher. For
good episodic balance between ‘viewer accessibility’ and ’wow-factor’, the
McGyver-esque designs range from simple to complex –from a cholesterol lamp
made from cast-off plastic cartons to an entire residence living completely
off the grid.
Between visits we hang with them doing the sustainable living
thing –stopping for fuel and negotiating their way into roadside diner
kitchens to clean them out of their used grease and generally inspiring (not
preaching to) all the Americans they meet along the way to get a little
greener.
Trippin’ the Green Fantastic
combines the
hot green ticket with the uncontrived hosting and hack mechanics that has hit
a positive nerve with today’s viewers –Food Jammers case in point. While
appealing to the wider target audience, this show will give the hard to please
‘it’ demographic of the millennium (18-34 year old males) something fresh,
timely and hip to talk about at the water cooler.
On Trippin’ the Green Fantastic we extract basic
science principles behind the inventions as well as show that passion, purpose
and imagination can make anything possible –even that the every day American
can help save the planet, one step at a time.
ABOUT THE VEHICLE
LADY is a refurbished, ‘tricked out’ Ford SUV that has been
stripped of its gas guzzling ways and reshaped and reworked to include a bio
diesel batch processing system and solar panels to boot. The bio diesel fuels
the vehicle while the solar panel power is generated using the fuel system and
runs the fold out stage and acoustics system, making Lady a true entertaining
ride across country.
