This viewer-driven program debuts on the Web and culminates in a primetime special that engages the online community to tackle one of the nation's most important challenges: our energy future. Emmy Award-winning CNN veteran Frank Sesno hosts.

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning CNN veteran Frank Sesno, the latest edition of PLANET FORWARD is a one-hour special that harnesses the power of the online community to uncover innovative, real-world solutions to global energy and climate challenges. Featuring ideas submitted to its public affairs website, this season of PLANET FORWARD focuses on ground-breaking concepts for how energy can be generated or used more efficiently. Taped before an audience at the George Washington University, energy experts with backgrounds in business, science and policy evaluate the top ideas, then audience members vote for their favorite concept, which is named the Earth Day 2011 Planet Forward Innovation.