Environment |  Click on the title below for more information on each DVD and to watch a short video clip from the DVD (NB. clips are hosted by YouTube, so you will need to watch from a computer that does not block YouTube). For more DVDs that are relevant to environmental studies, see our Sustainable Futures and Extreme Environments series, plus bargain DVDs in Special Offer HALF PRICE DVDs (all via the menu on the left). | |
| |  | 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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| |  | 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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| |  | 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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| |  | 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 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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| |  | 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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| |  | 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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