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The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution. The program features portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists around the globe who have placed themselves in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries for environmental justice in their communities. Narrated by Robert Redford, The New Environmentalists illustrates how ordinary people are effecting extraordinary...
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Focusing on endangered species, Part Five in the Saving My Tomorrow series highlights stories about animals in danger of becoming extinct, alongside scenes with kids who are working to protect the natural world around them – from the planting of oysters and banding birds to recycling. Also featured are readings and performances by Laura Dern, Stephin Merritt and They Might Be Giants, along with a behind-the-scenes look at the American Museum of...
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Ever heard the phrase you are what you eat? Well, if you're one of the world's committed carnivores, it could be said that your eating habits are a significant contributor to the pressing problem of global warming. The impact of raising animals for meat includes deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. This video explores food alternatives aimed at reducing meat consumption, including cultured meat and pea protein burgers.
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[2008]
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English
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Many ecosystems are fragile; they depend on a delicate balance between living and non-living components. Changes to one part bring changes to other parts, and often the consequences can be disastrous. For this reason, fragile environments, particularly those that are popular with human visitors, require careful managing to ensure the ecological balance is maintained. This film focuses on Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve on the Lincolnshire...
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Children of Eden volume 3
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2018.
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Rowan is finally in Harmonia, an Earth-friendly, sustainable commune in the wilderness she always thought was dead. Even in this idyllic world, she finds no peace. Harmonia has strict rules-and dire consequences. Thinking about Eden is forbidden, but she's determined to rescue the loved ones she left behind. Though they are in terrible danger, her pleas for help are ignored. After months of living as one with nature, a shocking reminder of her past...
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[2021]
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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[2013]
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English
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Biodiversity describes the incredible variety of life found on our planet. This program explores Earth’s biodiversity, the fundamental processes and characteristics of the Earth’s biological history, the extinction of existing species, and the appearance of new ones, such as Homo sapiens. What are the long-term consequences of human population growth? Are we heading towards a great extinction? Is the Earth’s biological diversity diminishing...
8) Migrations
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2020.
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Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
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[2015]
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The population of many migratory songbirds is on the decline, but many dedicated people are trying to save them, including researchers who employ creative means to assess the health of bird populations, and school children in Vermont who are trying to help re-forest the mountains of Costa Rica, and Costa Rican coffee farmers practicing bird-friendly methods of cultivation and processing.
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2015.
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In a future where few places are still habitable and people share their entire lives on the Web, Mila illegally enters the Isles, is captured and has a telephone implanted in her brain, and escapes but government agents are after her and her greatest asset is a seven second delay from the time she acts until they receive the signal.
12) Resist: Bk. 2
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[2013]
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Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
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Judy Moody volume no. 3
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2010.
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When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
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[2016]
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At the jungle animal hospital in Guatemala, the wards are full of exotic patients, many of them orphans rescued from the illegal pet trade. It is the job of a dedicated team of vets to nurse them back to health. We follow the team in their busiest year yet as they patch up animals in need, select a troop of spider monkeys for release and prepare a flock of very precious scarlet macaws for freedom.
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Neptune Project volume 2
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2015.
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Nere and her friends, all genetically engineered to survive in the ocean, go on a rescue mission.
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Neptune Project volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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"A group of kids who have been genetically altered to survive in the ocean must embark on a dangerous underwater journey to find refuge--and maybe even a way to save the world"--
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[2008]
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A critical concern for the planet today is global warming and its probable consequences, and whether warming trends are occurring because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or a cyclical change in the weather. Explorers accurately measure the thickness of the Arctic ice as loss of sea ice contributes to ocean warming, the rise of sea levels, and affects polar species. Global warming kills coral reefs in the tropics and melts glaciers in Bolivia...
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[2013]
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Energy is constantly being used and re-used. Energy begins with the Sun, moves through to plants, then insects and animals, and so on. These are steps of the food chain. Organized like a pyramid, each level represents a different step to the continual recycling of energy. Learn about photosynthesis and how it works, the food chain and the species the make up each level, how energy changes between levels, and the role of carbon and other minerals....
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