PBS celebrates Earth Day with enviro focused programming.

From late March throughout the month of April the public broadcasting system has arranged their line-up to include green themes in several of their original shows and in their childrens programs.

The line-up includes a premiere episode of the series JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH, hosted by Matt Damon (not to be confused with The Discovery Channel's new show Planet Earth), featuring our distressed marine eco-systems, in addition to all new episodes of NATURE and NOVA.

PBS has also tailored their kids programming to include encore presentations of shows with green themes. CURIOUS GEORGE, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, DRAGON TALES, ARTHUR, MAYA & MIGUEL, FETCH! WITH RUFF RUFFMAN and CYBERCHASE will all focus on the environment and teach kids fun ways they can get involved. The week of April 16-20 will feature new episodes the children's show, IT'S A BIG BIG WORLD culminating with a 2-hour special called, "PBS KIDS Share the Earth Day." Additional Earth Day themed educational activities will also be available online.

This is a smart programming line-up for PBS. With Earth Day approaching more and more people might be looking to tune into these types of shows, which could garner PBS a new audience for their leading, orginal programming. Another bonus for PBS - you don't need cable to watch it.

Via Yahoo! News; PBS