Dave Bowden 
TV Producer-Director-Writer
Profiles of sustainably-oriented programs

The Power of Tomorrow

This half-hour program was broadcast nationally in 2004. The show examines the growing role of sustainable energy technologies and practices in three different sectors of the American economy.

Energy efficiency and advanced solar energy features are demonstrated at the McStain Discovery House, an exemplary Green Built home in Loveland, Colorado.

Clean-burning biofuels are profiled by the innovative Blue Sun Biodiesel company's partnership with farmers to produce low-emission, high-quality diesel fuels for the transportation industry. Biodiesel also fuels the City of Denver's schoolbus and wastewater truck fleets.

The final segment highlights a family that owns a Toyota Prius, has retrofitted their home with solar energy features, and taken many steps to lower their ecological "footprint".

"How to Build a Better House":

The U.S. Department of Energy's Million Solar Roofs Initiative.

This inspirational ten-minute video provides consumers and businesses with a solid understanding of the many common-sense approaches to powering and heating buildings with solar energy.

Describing simple practices like passive solar design that use building orientation and thermal mass to capture the heat of the sun, leading engineers and solar consultants also explain the workings of active solar technologies, such as photovoltaics and solar thermal systems.

The story profiles two Colorado homeowners who have these systems installed. They offer an enthusiastic perspective on how solar saves money, increases homeowner's comfort level and reduces their dependence on fossil fuels.

"We All Live Downstream"

Greenpeace USA

Dave directed and photographed this Greenpeace documentary about the environmental group's 3 month journey down the Mississippi River highlighting water quality and toxic waste issues.a

Starting at pristine Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, Bowden shows in detail how the river grows steadily more polluted as it winds through the American heartland. Continually assaulted by a plethora of industrial facilities, pesticide-laden agriculture runoff, and partially treated sewage, the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico creating a "dead zone" of many hundreds of square miles. Bowden shot 350 tapes in and around dozens of chemical plants and Superfund sites, speaking with aggrieved local residents tired of the lack of government help in monitoring the plants and cleaning up their neighborhoods. Some of Dave's footage was used in PBS Frontline's "Who Killed Calvert City", by Mierendorf Productions, which profiled a small Kentucky town almost totally dependent on large petrochemical plants for employment, but whose residents downwind of the industrial park were experiencing high rates of a rare colon cancer.