How Can I Help?

Explore Little Italy's Farmers Market, Organic Farming, and Sustainable Restaurants. Its a delicious and nutritious way to enjoy San Diego. Get ready for a green adventure in San Diego as we explore Organic Farming. It's the San Diego usual (bright and sunny) Saturday morning (9-1pm) and walking around the Little Italy Farmer's Market is a titillating treat for every sense. Colorful sights guide your excited eyes to new visual experiences, mellow music gives you a soothing sound to enjoy a relaxing day, tasty dishes tantalize your taste-buds as you catch a waft of the wonderful smells, delicious tastes begin marinating in your mouth, and with a touch of unique produce, some of which is only available in San Diego, you let your body take a well-deserved vacation. The local independent farms that constitute Little Italy Mercado gives a glimpse into the accessibility and variety available through Organic Produce and Sustainable Farming. With so many competing local farms you are sure to catch a deal, and every purchase helps the local economy thrive. After you've gotten your fill of Fresh Farm Air Atomosphere, head down the 5 to Suzie's Farm to discover a whole new San Diego and a great independent family-owned organic farm. You can almost taste the freshness in this segment. San Diego has an ideal climate, capable of growing food year-round which makes sustainable organic farm fresh produce available near you. In fact many people easily grow gardens in San Diego, it is a great way to get fresh air, bond with your family, and eat healthy locally grown produce. Meet with just those people at the San Diego Sustainable Roots Harvest Festival with music, dancing, and tantalizing tastes for your tongue its a delicious, nutritious way to see San Diego. Don't get too full because here's the main course. The Linkery in North Park offers delicious dishes and can't lose brews. Its all right at your plate with "Farm Fresh"

A look at the leaders of tomorrow, today, and what they are learning right now to solve the environmental issues in the future. A relaxing day in a bustling urban metropolitan, start the journey with a K-8 program called Cool the Earth which is cool, but has sizzling hot reviews from the amazing performance by everyone in Mrs. De Luna's 5th grade class at Hage Elementary school. Its truly Shakespeare's envy. Than take a trip up the 15 to High Tech High North County where students use Project Based Learning to critically analyze and solve some of the biggest environmental issues of our time. Now sit back and relax as President Bill Clinton takes the stage for a well-deserved praise to UCSD and Chancellor Fox. He came all the way here to say that at this years Clinton Global Initiative University Conference held at UCSD for its exemplary green and sustainable practices. Than stroll around campus for UCSD Green Open House. Its a celebration and your invited as we check out a car show, entertainment, landscape exhibits, cooking demos, and much more. After taking a look at all the wonderful programs head back downtown, but take a much needed study break to see Seeds at the City, a program at San Diego City College that is one of the only places in Southern California for you to get a Sustainable Agriculture Certification. So Get an "A" For Effort with "Learning Green" from How Can I Help?

Everyone likes a warm sunny day in San Diego, but what if we could use that natural energy to really light up our lifestyles. San Diego is California's #1 Solar City. There are more solar installations in San Diego than in any other city in California. So its no wonder we call this episode Solar Diego. Some Say San Diego Should Switch to Solar. See Why? Start off talking to Cecillia Aguillon of Kyocera Solar about the Solar Module Manufacturing Plant they have right here in San Diego. The manufacturing plant is sustaining the local economy while providing the tools to create a dependable energy source that respects the environment. Kyocera truly is not only business as usual, its business that is useful. After that join us as we talk with veterans in commercial solar development, Independent Energy Solutions, on how green is gaining steam with the cool projects that are becoming a hot item throughout San Diego. Its time for us to get dirty with Green Jobs, follow us as we install residential solar paneling with Baker Solar Electric Inc. in Bonita, California to discover what it takes to brighten up your homes value while lighting up on the energy savings possible. Learn how the community and environment are truly enhanced with Solar Technology through representatives from the County of San Diego, SDG&E, CA. Center for Sustainable Energy and much more. You'll light up for this bright idea for sure.

The San Diego Scenery creates our Picture Perfect Postcard Paradise, discover who's setting the scene by Planting Plants using green and sustainable techniques. Explore water conservation issues as we get down and dirty with some hoes and plant native and sustainable landscaping throughout San Diego. Get established for this growing adventure with a trip to The Water Conservation Garden on the Cuyamaca Community College Campus in El Cajon. Than meet up with landscape consultant Susan Krzywicki as we put native strawberries in the beautiful home of Jeanne Kearley in Chula Vista. After that we head north to Hunter Irrigation to learn how Hunter Irrigation is innovating our entire water irrigation systems. Amazing machines making irrigation necessities to keep our landscaping efficient. Its a beautiful day at the Old Town State Park Native Plant Garden as we check back with Susan Krzywicki on how the California Native Plant Society has created an urban exhibit attracting as many people as Disneyland per year. Quite simply it is an amazing place to be and the happiest place for Earth as an original area for the Kumeyaay Indians, Spanish and Mexican Settlers, as well as the original Plymouth Rock for San Diego and California as we know it. You'll definitely have a new look on Old Town after this segment. Finally we take a relaxing break at Callie Mack and Philip Roullards home in San Carlos to see this 2006 Native Plant Landscaping award from the California-Friendly Landscaping contest. Its the pinnacle of planting natives so its a high bar to set, but Callie and Phil are very California-Friendly so we'll get some tips and tricks to starting a beautiful backyard (or front) native ecosystem. So freshen up as we grow our knowledge on planting plants as we go native in this episode. Discover how Water Conservation necessities are a recipe for action in San Diego as well as some solid solutions with Native and Sustainable Landscaping.

Get Moving as we Discover Destinations that transform Scenic San Diego into an Eco-Tourist attraction for "Explore SD" First stop, hop on over to Seaport Village for San Diego Seal Tours as we explore so much more than just the city and the bay as we travel for a day with Terri Zorn Co-Owner of San Diego Seal Tours and Historical Trolley Tours. Then its off to adventure with Hike, Bike, Kayak as we take a cool look at La Jolla Cove on a kayak to see how educating on the environment can be a fun time for tourists of all kind. Take a break and have a nice relaxing sustainable stroll with Jim Stone of WalkSD which works on ways to make walking a lot as well as public transportation easy and convenient for everyone. We're not sure how we will end the episode, so I guess you'll just have to stay tuned to find out. Take a staycation and get some education on Eco-tourism with the How Can I Help? Season Finale "Explore SD"