Over the past few decades there has been a steady growth in portion sizes we're served. While many Americans have grown accustomed to oversized portions, these super-sized portions have brought rising rates of weight gain and obesity. In Get Wise to Portion Size, viewers learn more about why portion size matters and how to eat the right amount for you.

Blade implements such as axes, swords, and knives have been a part of civilized man's journey since the Paleolithic age roughly two million years ago. In those days, sharp tools were chipped off of flint or obsidian to create knives for skinning hides, cutting vegetation, and hunting animals. With the discovery of metallurgy, people were able to forge stronger, more versatile blade implements out of bronze, iron, and eventually, steel.

Tom Brunk, a former banker, founded Brunk and Brunk Metro Brokers in 1984 to provide services in the areas of real estate investment and development, property management, and relocation. Tom is considered to be a major thought leader in the industry and is often sought for his insights into the trends and topics that are shaping the future of the rental property industry. In this program, Tom discusses how to locate and evaluate potential rental properties;...

What we choose to quench our thirst matters more than you might think. Beverages are the single largest source of calories in the average American diet and their contribution often goes largely unnoticed. Learn about how to make healthy choices.

This short documentary produced by The Green Interview focuses on what's referred to as the "Mendoza case," a landmark ruling that took place in Argentina in 2008 and is named after Beatriz Mendoza, a health care worker living in a poor and heavily polluted area of Buenos Aires. In 2004 she lead a group of Matanza River basin residents and filed a lawsuit against the national government, the Province of Buenos Aires, the City of Buenos Aires and 44...

Both a museum and the official palace of the Spanish royal family, the Palacio Real features armor, artworks and treasures that were once the private possessions of Spain's kings and queens. Inside the Palacio Real, Madrid, we discover that Spain reached its height of glory not through the acquisition of silver and gold, but because of the unique properties of a third element. We investigate how a famous swordsman bested 17 challengers, then examine...

Fruits and veggies are filled with a host of health-promoting benefits, but often times we fall short on our daily servings. Learn how we can get ourselves to eat and enjoy more fruits and veggies.

A factual film following the creation of Simon Callow's latest one-man play. An intimate film about the creative process, a look inside the craft of acting/playwriting and a ride through the theater world you won't ever forget.

This episode of The Green Interview features Chris Turner, a journalist who set out on a tour of the world and saw that the messages of environmentalism had proven to be completely inadequate as a myth of renewal. He argues that the environmental movement needs a language of hope, rituals of rebirth, and a sense that the battles are worth fighting. His book, The Geography of Hope, is a tour of the world packed with images of possibility, innovation,...

In this program Hazel Henderson discusses the quiet revolution in banking with veteran founder of ShoreBank, Mary Houghton. The shift is away from too-big-to-fail banks still not called to account for the financial crash of 2007-2008. While they are still hobbling future prosperity, there is a shift toward credit unions, community development funds, crowdfunding and reviving publicly-owned state and municipal banks like the 100 year success of the...