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| |  | The large motor manufacturers have made little progress in terms of fuel efficiency in the last fifty years. This documentary features the genuinely innovative players who are making real progress in areas such as electric cars, hybrid cars and cars that run on compressed air.
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| |  | Mount Saint Valentin, the highest mountain in Patagonia, is difficult to access and swept by constant storms. This film records the efforts of scientists to drill and remove an ice core filled with valuable information about climate change. For two years French and Chilean glaciologists battled with the elements in this hostile environment in order to extract their precious ice samples. This DVD brings to life the excitement of practical science in the real world.
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| |  | This is a realistic and disturbing snapshot of the people who live or work at Delhi’s sprawling dump, from the rag-picker to the coin-diver to the industrial worker. The scale of the dump is vast and the stories of the people there are in turn touching and shocking.
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| |  | This series examines three man-made disasters that have had a profound impact on either the physical or living environment of the world.
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| |  | The Cold War was about economic ideology. The 21st century will be dominated by a struggle for energy, and it’s going to get dirty. Energy War examines the geopolitical consequences of the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. In pursuit of increasingly scarce resources, countries will be forced to enter into awkward alliances. Rogue regimes must be tolerated.
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| |  | Large tranches of the Arctic ice cap are melting. For the first time it is possible to sail all the way around the islands of Svalbard – the world’s most northerly civilisation. These islands provide the best demonstration of how global warming is affecting Arctic wildlife. The film-maker’s journey around these harsh coasts brings him uncomfortably close to the polar bears that are starving as their hunting grounds melt away. We also meet walruses, polar foxes and many birds, all of which are feeling the climatic changes.
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| |  | We now know how to harness the sun’s energy. A piece of desert the size of France could fulfil the whole planet’s energy needs. This documentary examines in detail the progress that is being made towards converting our Oil Society into a Helio Society - you may be surprised by the progress that has been made already. Solar stocks are soaring, the desert is the new Promised Land and roofs are entering the energy marketplace. It is even possible to fuel your care with algae from your garden!
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| |  | This is Lin Sutherland’s journey to look for the planet’s tallest trees on the island of Tasmania. Unfortunately she is not alone in this search - it’s a race against the massive and relentless wood chipping industry. Can Lin locate these ‘living legends’ before the woodcutters bring them down? Our forests depend on the cycle of growth, decay and renewal for survival but this is now threatened by logging, mining and cattle grazing.
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| |  | Oceans are becoming the world’s rubbish dumps. It is estimated that every kilometre of ocean contains 74,000 pieces of plastic, forming a plastic soup of waste that kills hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaches chemicals up the food chain.
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| |  | This film highlights environmental neglect through the stories of children from the regions in question. The children speak candidly about the painful solutions that are necessary. They are the people who will be most affected.
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| |  | Have North Americans become unwitting guinea pigs for multinationals that are blithely disregarding millions of years of evolution? In just a few short years, genetically modified plants have become part of the daily diet and are already found in 75% of processed foods. This revolution has occurred without consumer awareness and without the knowledge of the potential risks to human health and to the environment. Many scientists and farmers vigorously condemn the absence of adequate independent testing.
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| |  | The Arctic sea ice is melting. The global climate is growing steadily warmer and in the Arctic this process is proceeding twice as fast as in the rest of the world. At the current rate climatologists expect the Arctic to be completely ice-free as early as 2050. This DVD shows the importance of the ice to the animals who live there especially the seal, which relies on it to give birth and to rest, and the polar bear which roams the ice searching for seals.
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| |  | This short film explains clearly and visually why recycling is important and what materials can be recycled. Having seen the problems that waste causes at a landfill site, the film follows recyclable waste on its journey and shows close-up the processes involved in the recycling of glass, paper, metal, clothing, plastic and organic matter.
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| |  | On the outskirts of Mumbai, Dharavi is Asia’s biggest slum. Its 530 acres are home to a million people. Its pottery units alone have an annual turnover of around $4 million. Entrepreneurship sprouts in tiny sheds. This is a fascinating insight into a challenging human environment where people feel anything but sorry for themselves.
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| |  | This documentary takes a global perspective on the issue of slums. We visit locations in Africa, Asia and Latin America to hear first-hand the stories of inhabitants and experience their living conditions.
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| |  | The future of water is the future of humankind. How water will run in our societies will determine the future of our environment, power relations, the balance between rich and poor, war and peace and the destinies of countries and continents. With up-to-date footage from 25 countries, this documentary presents an original and comprehensive narrative of the challenges that humankind will face in relation to its most precious resource.
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| |  | This four-DVD set examines mankind’s relationship through history with fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer learns how our development was influenced by water-related factors and becomes conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | This is My World is a series of ten 12-minute shorts featuring children aged five to twelve talking about how and where they live.
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| |  | As we come to the end of the Oil Age, there is a general acceptance that the next era of human existence will have to be powered by renewable energy sources. This level-headed, non-cranky analysis examines how the three key alternative energy sources - solar, wind and biomass - are being developed for everyday applications and how they point the way towards genuine energy sustainability for future generations.
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| |  | With the industrialisation of countries such China and India, the amount of waste we produce is spiralling out of control. But hope exists. German chemist Michael Braungart and American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If our waste can become food for the biosphere or the technosphere, then production and consumption could actually become beneficial for the planet. Their Cradle to Cradle concept proposes that every product be designed in such a way that at the end of its lifecycle its component materials become new resources.
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| |  | This three-DVD series travels to the wettest and driest places on the planet to examine the challenges facing mankind in managing its water resources. Host Marq de Villiers, a world authority on the subject, undertakes a mammoth quest in an effort to understand the looming world water crisis.
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| |  | Of the billion people who do not have access to clean drinking water, 80% live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia. 4,500 children die every day as a result. This three-part programme reports on the gravity of the situation in India, Indonesia and The Philippines.
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