• Overpopulation:1/5

  The video introduces students to a number of the key elements in the current debate between those who point to world population as the primary cause of environmental degradation and those who see over-consumption as the problem. The subtext to the debate...

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• World Population

  The film provides a graphic simulation of human population growth. As the years roll by on a digtal clock from AD1 to 2030, dots light up on an illustrated map to represen the millons of people added to the population. Historic references on the screen...

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• Banking Diversity

  This video explains the critical role that seed saving and seed diversity play in ensuring a stable global food supply, now and into the future. They are the seeds of our survival.

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• David Suzuki speaks about overpopulation

  David Suzuki argues that in any discusson of population, we must recognize the principle of exponential growth (when the growth rate of the value of a mathematical fuction is proportional to the function's current value). To illustrate the impact of exponential...

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• The Reason For A Flower

  Poetic prose and bright cheerful illustrations will captivate the attention of young children as they learn all about flowers.  This book teaches students that flowers are so much more than being pretty to look at.  They will discover the meanings...

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• Don't Stop for Hitchhikers

  In this participatory activity, students simulate a lake ecosystem by taking on the roles of its inhabitants. Students assume the identities of both native and non-native species to physically demonstrate what occurs to the habitat and its resources...

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• Communities Divided Over Natural Gas Drilling

  The film explores an Associated Press report on the issue of "fracking" - the process by which natural gas is released when rock formations beneath the earth's surface are fractured. The video serves to identify the concerns of those who oppose the process...

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• Three Hundred Years of Fossil Fuels in Three Hundred Seconds

  This video uses a series of simple graphics to trace our dependence on fossil fuels from coal and the Industrial Revolution to our current (according to the authors) situation, characterized by increasing population and industrialism, leading to increased...

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• Owl Moon

  On a winter's night a young girl accompanies her father into the woods to go on an owling adventure.  She patiently waits as her father tries to attract a great-horned owl with his calls.  Just when the girl thinks she has had enough and is...

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• Waiting for Wings

  In this book poetry takes the young reader through all of the life stages of a butterfly from egg to adult.  Once the butterflies have emerged, the story then follows the insects as they look for the flowers that provide them with the nectar they...

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• The Wasteland

  CBS 60 Minutes follows the "recycling" of e-waste from Denver Colorado  to a community in southern China. In the process they uncover an underground network of illegal smuggling that starts with American consumers "doing the right thing" in dropping...

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• Where does e-waste end up?

  Where does e-waste end up? answers the question it poses and the answer in this case is India, where the poor risk their health to salvage valuable elements used in their manufacture. The discussion raises and answers a number of questions-why India?...

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• Global Warming: A Way Forward

  A Way Forward: Facing Climate Change explores the global impact of climate change and its devastating effects and outlines a response suggested by United Nations' scientists.  A series of powerful images highlight the current evidence and possible...

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• Learning to protect biodiversity

  This video illustrates how to address biodiversity through Education for Sustainable Development and mobilize teachers and students to reflect on biodiversity issues. It outlines the importance of biodiversity to humans in providing for medicines, shelter,...

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• Sea Lamprey

  The video describes the problems associated with the Great Lakes sea lamprey invasion and how Canada and the United States have been able to control their numbers.  It offers a quick overview of their arrival in the Great Lakes, the danger they represent...

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• Invaders in our Waters - Round Goby

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• Invaders in Our Waters-Purple Loosestrife

  The film introduces a success story in the use of biological controls to combat invasive species. In this case the invasive species is purple loosestrife and the biological control is a European leaf-eating beetle, Galerucella calmariensis. Students...

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• How to feed the world in 2050

  The sponsor of the video, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, argues that   to achieve food security in a changing climate the global community must operate within three limits: the quantity of food that can be produced...

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• Energy Dialogues - Fracturing

  This video series explores hydraulic fracturing. The introductory video outlines the techniques involved in answering the question – What have natural gas companies been doing to reduce the pollution caused by fracking? It describes the use of steel...

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• Energy Dialogue: Wind Power

  The resource consists of four videos in response to the question, Why isn’t there more electricity produced by wind generation in Alberta. The first video introduces wind turbines (how they work; where they are located). The second video has...

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