Inspiration Green Videos.

''The World According to Monsanto- A documentary that
Americans won't ever see.'' In March 2008 a new documentary was
aired on French television. One hour 49 minutes. Disturbingly
enlightening...looks at GMO's, Round-up, PCB's, rBGH, 245-T, BT
Cotton and Monsanto's take over of the world's food market.
A must see. ***

Monsanto. Google Video. A very edited crop of above Monsanto
video, March 2008.

"Will Mushrooms save the World" Paul Stamets believes that fungi,
and particularly the mycelium (the vegetative part of mushrooms)
contains solutions for some of the Earth's environmental and
health-related problems. For instance, fungi produce strong antibiotics;
they can be used against flu viruses; mycelium can be used to
naturally "clean up" petroleum-saturated soils; revamp pesticides; and
generate ethanol, etc... TED Video.

GMOs. Google Video. Info on genetically modified food. Questions the
testing procedures of Monsanto.

Air:

Indoor Oxygen Boost. Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an
arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a
home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air.
TED Feb 2009.

Animal Welfare:

www.theecologist.org

"Sick as a Pig" A strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms
of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap
meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit travelled to the
Netherlands to investigate. Hard to watch.

www.petatv.com

People for the Ethical treatment of Animals videos on
Vegetarianism.

www.themeatrix.com

Meatrix. Videos exposing the meat industry in the US, in the theme of
the movie "The Matrix."

Architecture:

Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how
computers can help architects design buildings that are green,
beautiful and "basically pollution-free." From the 2007 DLD
Conference, Munich; www.dld-conference.com. On TED.

Arctic/Antarctic:

Encounters At The End Of The World. Warner Herzog. 1:40:43. 2008.
All about the human crew in Antarctica. Low quality video- a shame
due to the beauty of the work. ***

"Race for the Arctic" Racing to claim the Arctic's resources. Foreign
Policy Association. 26 minutes, 2008.

Using a Clothes Dryer costs 47¢ per load if the price of electricity is 8.14¢ per kWh.
www.nppd.com/My_Home/Product_Brochures/Additional_Files/electric_usage.asp

Biodiversity:

E.O. Wilson makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn
more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all
the world's knowledge about life. TED Video.

Biofuels:

www.time.com

The Next Big Biofuel? A Florida farmer thinks the next big biodiesel
alternative will come from the seedpods of the jatropha tree. Time.com.

www.greenfuelonline.com

GreenFuel Technologies explains Emissions-to-Biofuels™ process
that recycles carbon dioxide emissions into clean renewable biofuels. ***

www.scivee.tv

Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scientists take aim with tiny
algae and their giant promise as the biofuel solution of the future. Dec
2008. Scivee.

www.scivee.tv

UC San Diego. The San Diego region, home to more than 500
biotechnology companies, is poised to become a “Green Houston,” as
world renowned geneticists, biologists, and engineers at UC San
Diego, The Scripps Research Institute and other local research
institutions join with their industry counterparts in a broad-scale
research effort to develop advanced transportation fuels from algae.

Small to medium sized LCD TVs use the least amount of energy.
Old-fashioned CRT TVs, use about three times more energy than an LCD TV of similar size.
Plasma TVs use about 30 percent more electricity than an equally sized LCD.

Carbon:

Perdue University's Vulcan model examines CO2 emissions at local
levels on an hourly basis. The new, high resolution, interactive map of
United States carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, show CO2
emissions at more than 100 times more detail than was available
before. A must. ***

www.earth.columbia.edu

Columbia University's Klaus Lackner talks on carbon sequestration
to a class March 2008.

www.biochar.org

BioChar.org videos about BioChar.

Car Culture: see Vehicles below...

Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, lays out his simple
plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy. TED
Video 2005. ***

Chemicals:

www.ewg.org

"Are Flame Retardants Dangerous for Kids?" NBC's Today Show
featured the Environmental Working Group.

"The Truth About Cats, Dogs & Lawn Chemicals" The potential
implications of lawn pesticides and five steps to healthy pets and
healthy green lawns. July 2008. Good info here. ***

Jean Michel Cousteau tests for toxins in humans and orcas. Five
people are tested for PCBs and PBDEs and a mother learns the levels
found in her 4 year old child.

Children: watch it now see the Children's page for learning sites...

chge.med.harvard.edu

Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical
School produced a 10-minute film that reconnects its audience to the
importance of the marine environment for all life on Earth,
including human life. Unlike conventional natural history
documentaries, the film title Once Upon a Tide, is a fictional narrative
that blends the moral and visual elements of a fairy tale to inspire us to
recognize the importance of ocean conservation.''

www.greengorilla.com

“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” follows four kids and a green
gorilla as they overcome a demented plot by Dr. Morlon Hufflebot to
create an island of plastic bags in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Clean Energy Tech:

www.techtionary.com

Techtionary. Animated “pictutorials” on technology.

video.energypolicytv.com

Energy Policy TV aggregates third-party video content from thought-
leaders and decision-makers in all segments of energy and the
environment—in Washington and across the country.
Content is added daily from those who are shaping key policies in
federal and state government, utilities, energy companies, the
investment community, think tanks and academia.

A scientists accidental discovery of salt water as fuel while doing
cancer research. Yet there is an issue of how to power the Radio Wave
generator.

Climate Change: see climate change talks directly below...

www.teachersdomain.org

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media
resources from the best in public television; featuring media from
NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other
public broadcasting and content partners. Great Stuff. ***

www.green.tv

Green.TV brings together films from a whole range of environmental
organisations and independent filmmakers and making them
available to anyone anywhere. Covering air, land, water, climate
change, tech, species, people.

Climate Change Talks:

www.wecansolveit.org

Al Gore issued a bold challenge in Washington on July 17, 2008: that
100 percent of U.S. electricity production come from sources with zero
carbon emissions within 10 years. ***

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be
even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act. A
must see. TED. ***

Al Gore. A planetary solution to a planetary crisis. Rising to the
Challenge of Copenhagen. World Economic Forum. 2009.

Thomas Friedman's talk in Washington, D.C. Sept 2008. The Pulitzer
Prize winning reporter believes the framing of climate change is too
positive; he renames it "global weirding" in response. Talks on topics
covered in his new book "Hot, Flat and Crowded" Can skip 8 minute
intro. ***

John Doerr- 'Seeking Salvation and Profit in Greentech'-warns that
carbon-dioxide-sputtering, gas-powered capitalism will destroy us all,
and that going green may be the "biggest economic opportunity of the
21st century." An emotional talk about climate change and investment.

ourworld.unu.edu

United Nations University G8 Symposium on Innovation and
Climate Change. Interviews with Dr. James Hansen, Gwyn Prins, Ted
Nordhaus, David Stevens, Alex Evans, David Sandborn Scott and
Shuzo Nishioka. July 2008.

Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated- Breaks down our
power usage, who is responsible, what we can expect, how much
alternate energy tech we need to keep our CO2 below 450...and how
changing our ways helps dramatically. 2008.

www.earth-policy.org

Lester Brown talks about his Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization. The presentation was to the Chemical Society of
Washington on May 8, 2008.

David Keith talks of a inexpensive, effective and 'very controversial'
solution to climate change. What if we injected a huge cloud of ash
into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat?

Competitions:

web.worldbank.org

World Bank’s Social Development Department is calling for
submissions to a world-wide documentary competition,
"Vulnerability Exposed: Social Dimensions of Climate Change".
Deadline closed- Oct 2008. Check back.

Consumerism:

storyofstuff.com

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the
underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of
Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of
environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more
sustainable and just world.

Courses/Seminars:

ci.columbia.edu

Columbia E-seminars are three- to five-hour multimedia versions of
Columbia University courses, created in collaboration with Columbia
professors. They combine video clips of lectures with a variety of
resources and teaching tools, including text excerpts, archival
photographs, interactive maps and timelines, simulations, and
animations. Need to register, some are free.

1.15 billion mobile phones were sold in 2007.

Death:

Good Magazine: 'The Business of Death'. Animation on the costs
and global effects of the body's disposal.

Developing Countries:

web.worldbank.org

The World Bank. Global Videos. News and Boadcasts.

Vandana Shiva introduces the concept of Earth Democracy in the
context of India. Industry and commerce without respect for human
rights. June 2006.

Documentaries Educational:

www.teachersdomain.org

www.greentreks.org

Green Treks, a non-profit multimedia productions and outreach
organization producing television documentaries, how-to videos, web
programs, radio documentaries and print media. Fee for full length
videos. Phili, PA.

Documentaries on Green People:

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

Wangari Maathai "The Tree Lady" by Will Levitt. 10min. 2006.

www.peoplesarchive.com

Peoples Archive collects the stories of the great thinkers, creators, and
achievers of our time, leaders of their field, whose work has influenced
and changed our world through the Arts, Medicine, Politics and
Science.

Documentary Shorts:

Media That Matters brings you a collection of inspiring shorts by
filmmakers committed to changing the world. From gay rights to
global warming, the jury-selected collection represents the work of a
diverse group of independent filmmakers, many of whom are under
21. Documentaries, music videos, animations, experimental work and
more. What all the films have in common is that they spark debate
and action in 12 minutes or less.

Economy/Clean-Green:

www.eenews.net/tv

Tom Prugh, co-director of Worldwatch's State of the World 2008
report, explains why environmental issues are driving the global
economy. He discusses what lies ahead for carbon markets and
also addresses how local governments can engage communities for
a more sustainable world.

Education:

www.teachersdomain.org

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free
media resources from the best in public television; featuring media
from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and
other public broadcasting and content partners. Great Stuff. ***

Energy:

liveearth.org

Al Gore introduced a five point plan that “…would
simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and
the economic crisis–and create millions of new jobs that cannot be
outsourced,” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Watch the
videos here.

Amory Lovins Advocates for a Cleaner, Safer Energy Future.
Lays out a clean energy path we can take. 51 minutes. 2008.
Fora TV.

Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated- Breaks down our
power usage into watts, who is responsible, what we can expect,
how much alternate energy tech we need to keep our CO2 below
450...and how changing our ways helps dramatically. 2008. 1 hour.

video.energypolicytv.com

Energy Policy TV aggregates third-party video content from
thought-leaders and decision-makers in all segments of energy
and the environment—in Washington and across the country. Oil,
Natural Gas, Electricity, Infrastructure/Grid, Coal, Nuclear, Wind,
Solar, Biofuels, Green Economy, Efficiency, Conservation,
Sustainability, Climate Change, Transportation, Congress, States,
EPTV News Roundtable, USEA Newsmaker.

Introduction to Energy Regulation and the Environment.
Lecture UC Berkeley- January 17, 2008. An introduction to the
course, including the history of energy, the relationship between
energy and development, environmental and environmental
justice impacts of energy generation, and an introduction to
current energy issues. Lecture includes an introduction to the
basics of electricity generation, transmission and distribution,
efficiency, reliability, and ancillary services. 156 minutes.

Energy Efficiency:

www.upi.com

Household Vampire Energy. What it costs you. United Press
International.

Environment:

ecology.com

Ecology TV on The Ecology Global Network. Their mission is to
educate and inspire global citizens about the beauty and volatility
of our earth, and to compel us all to become better stewards of our
planet.

www.green.tv

Green.TV brings together films from a whole range of
environmental organisations and independent filmmakers and
making them available to anyone anywhere. Covering air, land,
water, climate change, tech, species, people.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki started the Environmental Children's
Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to
learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. In
1992, Severn raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth
Summit in Rio de Janeiro and address the summit with an
inspiring talk.

Environmental Art:

Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western
culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost
unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper
cups we use every single day. TED.

E-Waste:

www.dcenvironmental
filmfest.or g

E-Waste Animation. GOOD Magazine. The Basel Action
Network, contributed documentary footage to this video. You
Tube. 2007.

www.ban.org

"The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and Abuse to
Africa" Trailer. Exposes the ugly underbelly of what is thought to
be an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded
computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and
Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and
so-called recyclers. Basel Action Network.

www.cbsnews.com

"Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste" 60 Minutes Follows
America's Toxic Electronic Waste As It Is Illegally Shipped To
Become China's Dirty Secret. Nov 2008.

Today, an average American uses more than 100 gallons of water daily
for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing.
www.nesc.wvu.edu/pdf/DW/conserve/conserve_athome_otsu07.pdf

Festivals:

Environmental Film Festival. Washington, DC. Held in March
every year.

www.mediathatmatters
fest.org

Media That Matters Film Festival showcase for short films on the
most important topics of the day. Local and global, online and in
communities around the world, Media That Matters engages
diverse audiences and inspires them to take action. Held in June in
NY each year.

Fish Farms:

www.theecologist.org

"Greed of Feed" A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a
host of unreported environmental and social costs linked to the
fishmeal production industry in Peru. Largely hidden from view
on the other side of the world, consumers will be shocked at the
human and environmental price they are paying to put cheap
salmon on the table. 2008.

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

Jean-Michel Cousteau talks about fish farming from an
interesting perspective. 7 minutes. Worth watching.

Fishing:

One More Dead Fish. The sleepy town of Woods Harbor, Nova
Scotia explodes when six handline fishermen seize a Federal
building and barricade themselves inside to fight government
regulations which are destroying the environment. Handliners vs
bottom trawlers. InterPositive Media.

Food:

Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye view -- to
consider the possibility that nature isn't opposed to culture, that
biochemistry rivals intellect as a survival tool. By merely shifting
our perspective, he argues, we can heal the Earth. Who's the more
sophisticated species now? March 2007.

www.pbs.org

Bill Moyers /Michael Pollan, Professor of Journalism at UC
Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the
often-overlooked question of food policy. PBS.
November 28, 2008.

Slow Food Nation San Francisco. Aug 2008. Fora.tv
Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Eric
Schlosser and Carlo Petrini join together in a conversation about
the local, national and the global impact of the philosophy and
practice of Slow Food. ***

www.truecostoffood.org

The True Cost of Food: A campaign to promote sustainable food
choices from the Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption
Committee. Animated.

Mark Bittman 'What's wrong with what we eat' the NY Times
food writer weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now
(too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home
cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk. TED.

Ann Cooper. TED Video. Speaking at the 2007 EG conference,
"renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming
revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal
and even educational food. *** A must watch !

Ensuring the Future of Food. Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries Animation. Suggests the Japanese would be
better off if they went back to their traditional diet.

whatsonyourplateproject.org

(Fo)odometer- Interested in eating less oil? In this
VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz
keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to
fork. 2007. Youtube. ***

www.theecologist.org

Forest King chicken- an ancient breed of chicken -Giriraja- has
an inherently strong immune system and is being distributed to
rural Indians, who now have renewed hope for the future.

"What's on your plate" a provocative documentary about kids
and food politics. Filmed over the course of one year, the film
follows two eleven-year-old African-American city kids as they
explore their place in the food chain- "an 11-year-old's take of
Omnivore's Dilemma".

The UN reports that the livestock industry accounts for about 18 percent of greenhouse gas
emissions, that is more than the transport industry.

Gardening:

City Farmer TV scroll down for instructional Videos. More than
100. You Tube.

Urban Organic Food Growing in Havana, Cuba. A clip from
the BBC's "Around the World in 80 Gardens" (2008) showing some
of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. Monty Don. You
Tube.

Indoor Oxygen Boost. Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an
arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots
in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner
indoor air. TED Feb 2009.

Glaciers:

extremeicesurvey.org

James Balog's visual evidence of retreating glaciers- 26 time lapse
cameras shooting every hour during daylight. Short Videos of
glaciers movement and calving. ***

Global Warming:

Global Warming 101. National Geographic. It could change our
maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands. May
2007.

www.vega.org.uk

Sherwood Rowland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1995 for work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly
concerning the formation and decomposition of Ozone. In this
interview Rowland chose to talk about two issues: Ozone and
Global Warming. Vega Science Trust- recorded in 2006. 42
minutes.

video.aol.com

"Does anybody care if Bangladesh drowns"
ForeignExchange.tv 2008.

Blue Man Group on Global Warming. 2006.

Milankovitch Cycles. Animation showing the three Milankovitch
Cycles, Eccentricity, Axial Tilt & Precession collectively effect
changes in the Earth's climate. BBC ***

History:

vimeo.com

LEGO Timelapse: 5 Million years. Vimeo. By Jesus Diaz. Fun!

Insects:

Bees in trouble. OnEarth. Some scientists suspect that pesticides
are the cause of plummeting bee populations, which could have
serious consequences for pollination and production of food crops.

Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis
vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's
important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming
disappearance. TED Video. ***

Every Third Bite. The Meerkat Media Collective. 9 min. Bees are
responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat. Small
beekeepers exhort the special nature of their hobby.

E.O. Wilson makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn
more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia
of all the world's knowledge about life. TED Video.

www.ted.org

Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is
helping build the perfect "distributed foot" for tomorrow's robots,
based on evolution's ancient engineering. TED.

www.sundancechannel.com

Green Porno. Isabella Rossellini, in costume, shows us the ins and
outs of insect lovemaking.

32 million acres of land (the size of Florida) is deforested each year...

Internet:

www.nsf.gov

National Science Foundation and the Birth of the Internet. Dec
2007.

Using a Dishwasher costs 22.8¢ per load if the price of electricity is 8.14¢ per kWh.
www.nppd.com/My_Home/Product_Brochures/Additional_Files/electric_usage.asp

Interviews:

E.O. Wilson & James Watson talk about Charles Darwin on
Charlie Rose. 2005. ***

meaningoflife.tv

Edward O. Wilson -Slate Magazine Interview. Talks about
sociobiology, consciousness, religion and science.

Dr. Wangari Maathai- Link TV Journalist Mark Hertsgaard
interviews the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2004.

www.charlierose.com

Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky
Mountain Institute, conversation focuses on renewable energy and
energy policy. Charlie Rose.

www.pbs.org

PBS Frontline Hot Politics. "Heat" click: watch on line. Interviews
with James Hansen, Timothy Wirth, Newt Gingrich, Christine
Todd Whitman, etc.

Medicine:

Bonnie Bassler (of Princeton) isolated an elusive molecule called
AI-2, and uncovered quorum sensing -- or bacterial
communication. Stopping this communication might be an
alternative answer to antibiotics. Feb 2009. TED.

In standby mode, an HD TV still consumes 10 to 23 percent
of the total power used by that TV.

Movies:

www.ageofstupid.net

The Age of Stupid- from McLibel director Franny Armstrong.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in
the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008
and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the
chance?

Music:

Ghana First Peace Song. Sponsored by WorldBank. You Tube.

Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school
musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El
Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 10, 2nd m, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.

A one drop per second leak adds up to 2,700 gallons a year.
www.nesc.wvu.edu/pdf/DW/conserve/conserve_athome_otsu07.pdf

Nature:

Janine Benyus: '12 sustainable design ideas from nature' the
author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature" gives an
amazingly interesting talk about recent developments in
biomimicry, and provides heartening examples of ways in which
nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
TED. ***

Frans Lanting, (the nature photographer) presents a beautiful
slideshow, celebrated the history of our planet, from its eruptive
beginnings to its present diversity. TED.

Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living
beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest.
Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are
still, largely, a mystery. TED.

www.thewildclassroom.com

Ecogeek Episodes- Biology videos from The Wild Classroom.
Young scientists' science podcasts...

www.lifeonterra.com

Life on Terra is a collaborative filmspace and laboratory
exploring the questions and ideas on the cutting-edge of science
and at the farthest horizons of the natural world. Best 2009 Video
Wildlife Film Festival. ***

News Coverage:

Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why
- though we want to know more about the world than ever - the
US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
TED.

NASA scientists say a site in the Sahara desert in northern Niger is the sunniest place on land and the sunniest
place on the planet is in the Pacific Ocean.

Oceans:

Sylvia Earle shares shocking statistics about the Ocean's rapid
decline using striking images and expresses an urgency to awaken
the public from its ignorance about the role the oceans plays in all
of our lives and the importance of maintaining its health.

www.unep.org

United Nations Environment Program. A serious video on
ocean acidification. 8 min.

www.eur-oceans.info

Eur-Oceans (a network of European Aquaria and scientists) visual
material- 33 videos posted.

www.vbs.tv

Toxic Garbage Island...A group goes out to collect samples from
the North Pacific Gyre. Way too long, completely skip parts 1-8,
but 9-12 worth watching. VBS.TV.

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation
first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless
floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the
growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas. TED Video.
Feb 2009. ***

junkraft.blogspot.com

Plastics in Our Oceans. A Kontiki-style raft made from 15,000
plastic bottles and a piece of a Cessna travels from California to
Hawaii. A trip to raise awareness.

Call of the Killer Whale: Jean-Michel Cousteau. How the killer
whale is showing us we need to rid our environment of
manufactured chemicals. April 2009.

The Other CO2 Problem. Clay animation about the potentially
disastrous rise in ocean acidity. Commissioned by EPOCA
[European Project on OCean Acidification].

Oil:

dsc.discovery.com

Thomas Freidman explores ideas for breaking our addiction to
oil. Discovery Channel.

Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, lays out his
simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the
economy. TED Video 2005. ***

Richard Heinberg Defines Peak Oil. June, 2007. You Tube.

Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas
and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products,
based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach
to fuel, he argues, needs to change. TED Video.

The U.S. has spent over $3,870,500,000,000 importing fossil fuel.
zfacts.com/p/195.html

Paper:

www.wrm.org.

World Rainforest Movement Video on global paper
consumption. ***

www.secret-life.org

The Secret Life of Paper, an informative 5 minute film about the
environmental impacts of paper production and consumption. ***

World paper consumption has increased fivefold since 1961.

Poetry:

www.recyclingsuperguide.com

Billy Collins's poetry animated. Reads his poem "Walking Across
the Atlantic"

Real Time Data:

www.breathingearth.net

Breathing Earth: Interactive world map displaying carbon
dioxide emission levels of every country in the world as well as
their birth and death rates- all in real time. Click over country for
info. ***

Recycling:

Recycling Super Guide- videos worth watching for recycling
information.

The U.S. postal service mails out 20 billion catalogs and
90 billion unrequested junk mail items annually.

Science:

www.scivee.tv

SciVee: the You Tube for science research papers. Web 2.0 site
that enables researchers to combine video with documentation and
data in a media rich format, enables scientists to make their
research more visible, shareable, and accessible throughout the
research cycle. Numerous interesting posts.

science.tumblr.com

Science Tumbled. A Science Video Blog.

www.vega.org.uk

Vega Science Trust. A growing archive of science videos- some
of the world`s most famous scientists discuss their lives and
discoveries as well as their concerns.

www.worldsciencefestival.com

2008 World Science Festival Event Videos - Watch some of the
2008 program excerpts here.

Society:

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age
Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana,
Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how
-- if we see it in time -- we can prevent it. TED Video. 2003.

www.gtinitiative.org

Global Futures - The Great Transition Alternative: The Promise
and Lure of the Times Ahead. A lecture by Paul Raskin, President,
Tellus Institute and GTI Director Harvard.

Solar Power:

youtube.com

How solar panels are made. Discovery Channel.

www.nachi.t v

How a PV system is installed, works, and should be inspected.
Nachi TV.

youtube.com

Affordable solar home systems in Indian homes. SELCO India.

youtube.com

Solar Plane Helios. Silent video.

Sunseeker Solar Impulse project. Glenn Pew interviews Eric
Raymond about his battery launched solar assisted sailplane he
has been flying since the late '80s.

Stan & Iris Ovshinsky, the Energy Conversion Device founders,
provide a guided tour of the largest thin film solar cell
manufacturing machine in the world (longer than a football field)
making flexible rolls of solar film. ***

Nano-solar proprietary technology that makes it possible to
simply roll-print solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an
absorber as a silicon-wafer cell (yet deliver similar performance
and durability).

Concentrated Solar in Israel.