INTRODUCTION

Finally "GREEN" is in!  Green and sustainable design issues, especially in light of our current energy crisis, are now regularly covered by the information media and are a major topic of discussion amonst people throughout our nation. Many effective green principles, techniques and products have been put forth recently, but there are also those who have products to sell or are new to the subject and may mis-lead the well intentioned consumers who are seeking sound and appropriate guidance. The public and builders alike deserve to be well informed about how to build truly sustainable environments.

TerraZia Corporation is currently seeking motivated partners to help create an entirely new groundbreaking television series that will widely promote truly effective sustainable design, building techniques and products which will realistically implement a strategy of change for our built environment for years to come.

TV Series Title:
TerraZia - Building Green

TV Series Format:
Non-Fiction Reality

TV Series Logline:

No green-washing here! Celebrities, a Virginia architect and green product manufacturers join forces to demonstrate how to design and build truly sustainable environments.

Both sound design principles and appropriate green products are keys to achieving truly sustainable built environments. Everybody is claiming "green" these days so identifying and avoiding "green-washing" is essential to real success.

This highly entertaining and informative TV series will consist of at least 13 half-hour episodes filmed in high definition during the construction of a modestly sized high-performance single family residence.

Located on a south-sloping wooded site in Roanoke, Virginia, this uniquely passive/active, earth-sheltered, net-zero & universally accessible home, named TerraZia, will be a media showcase and long-term performance testing facility that incorporates both innovative and historical design concepts as well as truly effective green building products.

Each program episode will consist of three segments as follows:

1.  A featured celebrity co-host compares innovative design techniques and effective green products with not so green products and design techniques.

2.  As TerraZia is constructed, the co-host and architect demonstrate how their sustainable goals are achieved with truly green building products and construction methods.

3.  Featured manufacturers demonstrate their green products research, development, costs, and availability as well as future possibilities.

TerraZia Corporation will co-produce the series in collaboration with qualified television production professionals for airing on selected cable channels such as Discovery's Planet Green and Robert Redford's Sundance Channel.

A proposed follow up series will focus on how well the design and products actually perform as compared to initial design calculations, expectations and product manufacturer claims.