This six-part Australian documentary series follows Lish Fejer and Sean Fitzgerald, a pair of scientists passionate about the environment, as they meet with six contemporary families to suggest simple changes in lifestyle that can markedly cut energy consumption.

In the third episode, the Carbon Cops drop in on a group of 20-something student renters. Realizing that they will live with the reality of global warming in the future, the students take on a three-week challenge in which they try living with the predicted shortages of water, power and fuel.