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This episode of treehugger TV is all about community. We'll discovery online communities, floating communities and even an innovative community garden. In this show, you'll bond with communities that you didn't even know you were a part of!
SOCIAL NETWORKING
Is there a way for our online communities to bring us together in real three-dimensional life? Our correspondent Faith Salie sets out to discover just that.
First Faith meets Ari Lerner, the leader of a group called Guerilla LA. He uses his online community to arrange events called "Flash Mobs." Faith sits in on one of the groups' meetings and learns how the group uses flash mobs as a way of turning regular places and regular moments into something completely unusual. She also hears about how coming together to be a part of a flash mob is an opportunity for an online community to meet in real life. Faith is invited to join in on one of their events—but the event and location are a secret until the day of. What is she getting herself into?
To learn about bonding inside the net, Faith becomes an avatar and ventures into a very popular virtual community called Second Life. There she meets a couple that met and fell in love in Second Life and then in real life. She gets an animated tour of their virtual life together—a little different then most married couples, their day-to-day life involves magical forests and pirate ships.
BOTTLE ISLAND
Plastic garbage is a huge problem for the planet. The oceans are filled with plastic waste and there's no sign of it going away anytime soon.
But Rishi Sowa has taken the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure" to a whole new level. Just meters off the coast of a small island in Mexico, Rishi has built a floating island out of 120,000 plastic water bottles. Rishi has all the luxuries of home, including a private island for his ducks and a conch shell intercom system. And if Rishi has his way, in the not too distant future, we'll have a new continent built out of plastic water bottles.
COMMUNITY GARDEN
In Santa Cruz, California they have created a community garden designed to not only feed the community but also to teach homeless people skills they can use to get work in the future. The Home Depot is impressed by their work and is going to help them build an arbor that will serve as a gathering and educational space.
