Martin Guitar Featured on Season 3 Premiere of Big Ideas For a Small Planet

Martin Guitar will be featured on the season three premiere of the Sundance Channel award-winning original eco-series "Big Ideas for a Small Planet." Following the company's decade-plus long pioneering efforts in sustainability, the episode will air Tuesday, August 4th at 8:00pm e/p. The 13-part series airs as part of THE GREEN, Sundance Channel's weekly primetime destination devoted to environmental programming. Tuesday, August 4 at 8:00pm E/P Episode 1: Music. The music industry consumes massive amounts of energy and generates enormous waste. Can we imagine making music in harmony with the environment? Ideas include a green record label, sustainable stages and green guitars. Featuring Emmett Malloy of Brushfire Records, singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, Josh Dorfman, Dr. David Suzuki, Chris Martin of C.F. Martin & Co and Neal Turley of Sustainable Waves. Big Ideas for a Small Planet, the seminal documentary series on Sundance Channel and one of the first programs developed for THE GREEN, continues to be on the forefront of the discovery and discussion of green design, innovation, and process. Each week, a different green theme comes into focus through the work of three specific forward-thinking innovators ??? from scientists to product and fashion designers; from entrepreneurs to first-time inventors—inspiring audiences to incorporate green thinking and practices into all facets of their daily lives. It asks audiences to imagine a world in which we eat, build, and raise our children green, but this season it expands its scope to address communities, animals, and art, as well as sports, music, and greener ways to relax.