Portland, Oregon – Portland, Oregon based Distant Planet Television (www.distantplanet.net) announced this week that production has been completed on the twenty five minute pilot illustrating its green building television series, The Natural House. [/font]
The thirteen episode, workshop and home tour series is hosted by Pam Mahon.
The Natural house pilot, has been produced on location in Oregon at home sites where innovative design, new technologies and natural materials have been utilized to create uniquely livable homes that reflect principles of harmony, economy, and ecological balance.
The Natural House is the first TV series that specifically targets the LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) audience, a potential 250 billion dollar market.
The show features two outstanding examples of sustainable homebuilding, utilizing a full slate of innovative materials and green technologies.
The first home, a 2,000 square foot mountain retreat built at the foot of Mt. Hood, near Parkdale, Oregon is owned by Tom Kelly, President of Portland’s Neil Kelly Company (www.neilkelly.com). Described by Kelly as an “experiment in sustainable building,” the home is powered completely by solar energy. The Kelly home was the first LEED Silver (www.usgbc.org) certified home on the west coast, and one of only four such homes in the nation.
The second home is a classic earth wall, timber frame built by the Ron Hays and Christy Carl family, on nine rural acres in Eagle Creek, Oregon. Described by the homeowners as a ‘safe haven,’ the Hays/Carl home features natural plasters, toxic free paints and includes thermal mass walls that help self regulate interior temperatures in both summer and winter.
In addition, two Natural House sidebar package features take the viewers’ “Onsite” to visit with Portland’s ‘natural paint designers’ at Yolo Colorhouse (www.yolocolorhouse.com) and on a tour of the world famous Portland Re-Building Center (www.rebuildingctr.org).
The new Distant Planet Media website will be up and running in mid September. The fully featured dynamic website, will include streaming video of The Natural House pilot and introduce Distant Planet Marketing Communications, a full service marketing, and communications company dedicated to representing sustainable business interests, building projects, products and organizations.
The Natural House is one of a number of programs in development and scheduled for production in Oregon. Other Distant Planet projects include “A Taste of History,” a hybrid cooking and history series, “Green My Garden,” an organic garden make-over series and “Incident at Besancon,” the moving story of Oregon’s only surviving World War Two Medal of Honor recipient, Robert D. Maxwell. “Incident at Besancon,” is a non- profit venture produced in association with Film Action Oregon (www.filmaction.org).
Distant Planet principal Ed Eberle produced and directed the Natural House pilot. Ed is a New York native, a former CNN / NY and ABC News cameraman, post-production executive, free-lance writer, Senior Editor of LA based Film & Video Magazine, former National Marketing Director for the Ashland, Oregon Independent Film Festival, and a current board member of the Oregon Media Production Association.
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Portland based actress Pam Mahon is the on camera host of The Natural House, a new thirteen episode green building series from Portland’s Distant Planet Television.[/font]
Photo credit: Matthew G. Monroe (www.matthewgmonroe.com)[/font]
The thirteen episode, workshop and home tour series is hosted by Pam Mahon.
The Natural house pilot, has been produced on location in Oregon at home sites where innovative design, new technologies and natural materials have been utilized to create uniquely livable homes that reflect principles of harmony, economy, and ecological balance.
The Natural House is the first TV series that specifically targets the LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) audience, a potential 250 billion dollar market.
The show features two outstanding examples of sustainable homebuilding, utilizing a full slate of innovative materials and green technologies.
The first home, a 2,000 square foot mountain retreat built at the foot of Mt. Hood, near Parkdale, Oregon is owned by Tom Kelly, President of Portland’s Neil Kelly Company (www.neilkelly.com). Described by Kelly as an “experiment in sustainable building,” the home is powered completely by solar energy. The Kelly home was the first LEED Silver (www.usgbc.org) certified home on the west coast, and one of only four such homes in the nation.
The second home is a classic earth wall, timber frame built by the Ron Hays and Christy Carl family, on nine rural acres in Eagle Creek, Oregon. Described by the homeowners as a ‘safe haven,’ the Hays/Carl home features natural plasters, toxic free paints and includes thermal mass walls that help self regulate interior temperatures in both summer and winter.
In addition, two Natural House sidebar package features take the viewers’ “Onsite” to visit with Portland’s ‘natural paint designers’ at Yolo Colorhouse (www.yolocolorhouse.com) and on a tour of the world famous Portland Re-Building Center (www.rebuildingctr.org).
The new Distant Planet Media website will be up and running in mid September. The fully featured dynamic website, will include streaming video of The Natural House pilot and introduce Distant Planet Marketing Communications, a full service marketing, and communications company dedicated to representing sustainable business interests, building projects, products and organizations.
The Natural House is one of a number of programs in development and scheduled for production in Oregon. Other Distant Planet projects include “A Taste of History,” a hybrid cooking and history series, “Green My Garden,” an organic garden make-over series and “Incident at Besancon,” the moving story of Oregon’s only surviving World War Two Medal of Honor recipient, Robert D. Maxwell. “Incident at Besancon,” is a non- profit venture produced in association with Film Action Oregon (www.filmaction.org).
Distant Planet principal Ed Eberle produced and directed the Natural House pilot. Ed is a New York native, a former CNN / NY and ABC News cameraman, post-production executive, free-lance writer, Senior Editor of LA based Film & Video Magazine, former National Marketing Director for the Ashland, Oregon Independent Film Festival, and a current board member of the Oregon Media Production Association.
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Portland based actress Pam Mahon is the on camera host of The Natural House, a new thirteen episode green building series from Portland’s Distant Planet Television.[/font]
Photo credit: Matthew G. Monroe (www.matthewgmonroe.com)[/font]
