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This series of 13 programmes looks at global environmental problems and solutions, giving examples from around the world of how committed professionals are turning textbook concepts and principles into real, and viable action. This series underscores the fundamental connections between the environment and the disciplines of economics, science and politics.
13 x 30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o32.00 + p&p + VAT
This video reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. It introduces the concept to sustainability.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme looks at the role of population and the challenge of managing environmental and economic sustainability.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme provides a model for study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme deals with chemicals entering the environment which can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented: one chronic; a one acute.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle; the hydrologic (water) cycle; and the food chain.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This video explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This video examines the environmental threats to the band of life supporting oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This video explores the international ramifications of water related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement water.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This video shows the world's largest landfill coping with a 13,000 tonnes of solid waste per day; it studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
The final programme introduces a trend setting chain of factories in Denmark that sees waste from one industry as raw material for another (industrial symbiotics). It includes a visit to Ecovillage in Itheca, New York.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: o12.75 + p&p + VAT
The endless voyage series focuses on the marine environment as a unique and important part of life on earth. The following programmes are taken from a 26 part series using on-location material, computer graphics, individual case studies and discussions with leading scientists.
Plate tectonics is found virtually everywhere. Studies polar wandering, characteristics of plate boundaries, hot spots, and earthquakes.
30 minutes at 2003
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
A series of 36 programmes on biology.
This video explains: how plants convert the sun's energy to chemical energy; the photosynthesis equation; how glucose is formed and used; cellular respirationand how an organism uses glucose to form ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
30 minutes 1978 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
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