A rather far fetched reality?

In a new television six-part series Ecopolis, Discovery Channel kicks in the big issues looming large and providing futuristic solutions, starting tonight

With dreadful facts like the citizens of sprawling, ever-growing metropolises exhausting resources like food, water and energy at a rate beyond our estimation and mass consumption resulting in huge carbon footprints, it's high time someone wakes up to this calamity with relevant solutions.


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Ecopolis provides a realistic look at the possible problems and solutions in a futuristic megacity. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr Daniel Kammen unleashes his blueprint testing innovative technologies to remould and give a new shape to our cities. A glimpse of the show gives an interesting view of what our cities might look like by the year 2050.

Each episode explores a new visionary and technology-driven solution to future mega-city challengesu00a0-- food and water production by growing food on unused rooftops in cities called Urban Farming; using Methane from cow dung to generate clean green electricity and reduction of reliance on oil for transportation by using Electric Jeepney that runs on a process that solves another of Manila's environmental issuesu00a0-- mountains of trash.u00a0

In the final episode, he ranks the five previously chosen ideas to determine which is most urgently needed to help revolutionise the ecological fate of future cities. But are these solutions too far-fetched and futuristic or will they soon find realistic sense? Find out yourself.

On: Premieres tonight (every Monday) on Discovery Channel at 9 pm with repeats every Thursday at 10 am.