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“The Green” Sundance Channel will be premiering “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Kids” at 9:00pm and the documentary “The Refugees of the Blue Planet” (U.S. Television Premiere) at 9:30pm on Tuesday June 12th. Tuesday, June 12th 9:00pm e/p “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Kids” Eleven-year old activist Evan Green hosts a kick-off party to recruit new members for his Red Dragon Conservation Team, a group of kids and adults dedicated to saving the rainforest and fostering biodiversity; a group of students from the educational initiative “Plastics are Forever” collects used containers from a Los Angeles waterway and creates rafts from the trash to float down the creek; and toy-maker Barbera Aimes, founder of ImagiPLAY, creates non-toxic toys made from renewable rubberwood and recycled cardboard.

9:30pm e/p

The Refugees of the Blue Planet  (U.S. Television Premiere) – Directors Héléne Choquette and Jean-Phillipe Duval present an eye-opening look at the expanding ranks of environmental refugees, people who can no longer safely inhabit their homes because of natural disasters and/or industrial exploitation.  The film puts human faces to a broad-based trend, introducing families in both the Third World and the First: from the Maldives, an island republic that is disappearing into the ocean; to Brazil, where vast eucalyptus-tree paper plantations have altered native ecology; to Alberta, Canada, where farmers face grave health risks and death from nearby toxic gas wells. 
THE GREEN will also present original interstitial series, with individual segments airing throughout the three-hour block.  The interstitial series include:
 
“Eco-Biz”™ -  These news segments exploring financial aspects of environmental innovation in business will profile individuals who are visionary in strategy and have worked to establish more environmentally sustainable policies, innovative eco-friendly business tactics, and the subsequent impact to the bottom line.  NBC News will produce these pieces for Sundance Channel.  
 
“The Ecoists”™ - Some of today’s most active and recognizable environmental activists share ideas, information and enthusiasm about their cause of choice.   Participating talent includes Robert Kennedy Jr., Daryl Hannah, Willie Nelson, Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reese, Tim Robbins, and Josh Lucas.  “The Ecoists” is produced by Kontent Real.