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The Energy to Change: A Sustainable World
How do we power a sustainable world? Bloomberg experts featured in part 1 include Seb Henbest and Jenny Chase of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Part 2 features academic Tony Seba, author of "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation". Part 3 features the world's largest solar plant in Morocco, which will supply energy for millions and shows how technology is harnessing the sun's energy 24/7. It also features a start up in South Africa that is using recycled plastic bags to create solar backpacks for schoolchildren.
Electricity Generation: Renewables
The drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions means that many governments are trying to decarbonize electricity generation. But some renewables only generate electricity when conditions are right; they are also location-dependent and often face opposition from local residents. From wind, to solar, biomass, HEP, tidal and geothermal power—as well as explaining how different renewables are used to generate electricity, this video examines the pros and cons of each energy source.
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Gasland [dvd] by
In 2009, Delaware River Basin native Josh Fox was presented with an interesting proposal: lease his family lands to a natural gas company for a new method of drilling called hydraulic fracturing, and get a check for $100,000. He wouldn't have to do anything but sit back and collect the money. Curious about the process, Fox embarks on an exploration of other areas where natural gas drilling was already in progress, to observe firsthand any potential downsides. In Dimock, Pennsylvania, a town surrounded by fracking activity, he hears stories of wells exploding, black water, flammable drinking water, headaches, pains, long-term sickness. Fox goes on to tour 25 states, cataloging an endless string of frustrated and sick Americans whose land has become toxic and explaining the legislation pushed through by former vice president Dick Cheney, exempting energy companies from key environmental acts--exemptions that make fracking invisible to any regulation or monitoring. Fox becomes an advocate for the cause of the people whose complaints are ignored by the natural gas corporations and the American government. The film documents the pitfalls and perils--borne of avarice of the most bloodless, ruthless kind--of the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in American history, with the potential to poison millions.
Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and its effect on our daily lives.
Seas of Grass [dvd] by
This film investigates the serious threats to one of our most treasured natural resources. Grasslands cover almost one-third of the Earth's surface, house nearly a billion people, and are in grave danger of disappearing.
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development by 