This documentary series features global initiatives and case studies illustrating innovative solutions to the enormous issues facing international housing in the 21st century. It showcases examples like:

• Microfinance and self help housing by women

• Explorations in Eco-Tech architecture

• Socially sustainable bio-climatic skyscrapers

• Recyclable paper buildings and emergency homes

• Prefabricated kit homes

• The promotion of woodless construction

• Architects in the community programmes

• Biomass technology for sustainable villages

• Solar generated wind farms for housing

• Permaculture villages

• Sites and Services cluster housing

• Affordable 'Grow' homes

• Rafted ecologies for purifying waste water

• High density urban regeneration

• Zero energy residential development

• City centre microflats.

The aim of the series is to inform and inspire professionals, public officials, private individuals and communities - in all walks of life- to implement changes in thier lifestyles and living environments, based on initiatives by front runners in the field.