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Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town's only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This video makes students aware of the important role natural resources play in our everyday lives. It begins by differentiating between renewable and nonrenewable resources, offering examples of both. It also identifies different types of natural resources, including land, air, and water resources. Finally, problems with natural resource are discussed, as is the importance of using sustainable practices to reduce these problems. Additional concepts...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Everyday we use natural resources. This program introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and negative aspects of each category are stressed. Recycling, reuse, and resource alternatives are discussed. Other terminology includes: energy resources, solar energy, fossil fuels, mineral resources, recycle, reuse, scarce resources,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the smallest country in Central America is now the planet’s champion in biodiversity. However, for several years, the success of ecotourism has been driving Costa Rica into runaway urbanization. Today the country is for sale, regardless of biodiversity. That is why the government has created the Environmental Tribunal. Battle has been engaged. The green judges have declared war on illegal property...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This video illustrates some of the many resources we utilize regularly. Some of the most important and vulnerable resources – air and water resources – are explored in detail. Nonrenewable geologic resources are discussed, as are renewable living resources. Examples of the ways we use these resources are cited through colorful footage. Finally, perpetual resources - solar and wind energy are investigated. Other terminology includes: environmental...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
This video makes students aware of the important role natural resources play in our everyday lives. It begins by differentiating between renewable and nonrenewable resources, offering examples of both. It also identifies different types of natural resources, including land, air, and water resources. Finally, problems with natural resource are discussed, as is the importance of using sustainable practices to reduce these problems. Additional concepts...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
The history of mining in Canada is a story of astronomical profits made with disregard for the environment and human health. It is the story of nickel in Sudbury, silver in Cobalt, gold in Timmins, and copper in Rouyn-Noranda. In a country rich in mineral resources, mining companies historically have paid little tax while local municipalities have borne the financial burden of building and maintaining the roads they use to truck their wealth out to...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2007
Language
English
Description
Having emptied the European seas of fish, industrial fishing trawlers are now targeting Africa. In places like Senegal, where the sea is the nation's main resource, the EU's fishing policies are devastating the country. Unable to compete with this "European Invasion," Senegalese fishermen are being driven out of business. It's estimated that within ten years, there will be no more fish in Senegal's waters. Journalist Charles Clover says, "The last...
Pub. Date
[2005], c1997
Language
English
Description
Water shortages contribute to many regional conflicts worldwide. Only two-and-a-half percent is fresh, and it is therefore a precious commodity. This documentary illustrates how the worsening problem of global water shortage leads to regional political and social conflicts, destruction of economies, and famine. Beginning in the Middle East, we see how diversion of water to Israel at the expense of Palestinian villages has exacerbated that conflict....
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the perfect laboratory for researchers conducting the Census of Marine Life, an ambitious decade-long project to survey everything that lives in the oceans. Research reveals that climate change is threatening the biodiversity that resides in reefs around the world. Hoping to discover a few dozen new species as they check on the health of the coral of the world's largest reef, scientists shockingly discover hundreds...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating truly regenerative
...Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 Billion series, a NewsHour partnership with the Center for Investigative Reporting, Homelands Productions and Marketplace.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In Independent for Life, former HUD Secretary
...59) Global Energy
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
As much energy falls on the Earth's deserts in just six hours as all of mankind consumes in the course of an entire year. Morocco is aiming to become the first country in Africa to invest in solar thermal technology on a large scale. But small, decentralized photovoltaic systems can generate power more efficiently-in countries like Ethiopia or India, for example, where the majority of the people live in rural areas far from any power grid.
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