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Throughout the world, innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs are transforming their communities, making the dream of sustainable living a reality. The United Kingdom's push for sustainable housing developments raises awareness of energy efficiency and promotes eco-friendly home design. Cement alternatives developed in Australia reduce the carbon footprint for concrete production by 60%. Two industrial designers from Colombia are creating fashion items from recycled tires. In the Philippines, the inventor of coconut fiber nets shows how his company helps prevent devastating mudslides in the region and provides employment to locals.
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There are millions of different kinds of living things on the planet. Grouping them is not an easy task. This video explores this process and investigates some of the major groups of living things.
Recapitulates and reviews the principal messages of the curriculum as it summarizes the functions and designs of the body's major systems and organs and the methods by which they interact. NOTE: Contains some nudity.
Part of the "Green Careers" series. Provides an inside look at an organic farm and an organic retail store. Discusses the daily challenges and rewards of working in this field. Organic farming includes a wide range of jobs in production, marketing, and distribution. Jobs profiled include the following: farm manager, retail sales manager, and organic produce buyer.
Features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition, and this helps clarify pronunciation and provides opportunities to transfer words from working to long-term memory. Also concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular clip, students will focus on living.
Crisp, vivid video footage illustrates how living things change throughout their lives. Focuses on the life cycles of plants, insects, and frogs.
Nourish is an educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities. In this clip, health food advocate Anna Lappé explains how farmers use practices that are sustainable and protect the environment. Part of the Nourish Short Films Series.
All living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. This easy-to-understand program addresses the basic needs of organisms. By considering specific plants and animals, the viewer sees how living things need food, water, air and a place to live.
Scholar Johan Norberg travels to New Zealand to find out how the Quota Management System has helped save fish populations. Thirty years ago, New Zealand fisheries were on the brink of disaster due to overfishing. Today, commercial fishing off New Zealand provides fish for consumers worldwide, an excellent livelihood for fishers, and a stronger, healthier ocean and fish population.
Living and nonliving things make up the world. Students will learn how living things interact with each other and with nonliving things in an ecosystem.
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe that humans, animals, and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France to make sure their voices were heard.
Focuses on animal life in four extremely inhospitable deserts: the Namib's adaptive elephant, a dromedary roundup in Australia's outback, fish in thermal lakes in Mexico's Chihuahua desert, and the Sahara's Ennedi crocodiles. Survival is an eternal challenge to any life in these places.
Features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition, and this helps clarify pronunciation and provides opportunities to transfer words from working to long-term memory. Also concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular clip, students will focus on nonliving.
Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, scientists, and profound thinkers discuss how biology, physics, economics, and politics have contributed to ongoing crises such as climate change and resource depletion. This film features interviews with Wesley Clark, Daniel Goleman, Bob Inglis, Oren Lyons, Leonard Mlodinow, Timothy Morton, Mark Plotkin, Ian Robertson, Piers Sellers, and others.
A taxonomist explains the current classification system for all living things. Beginning with Aristotle's two kingdom division, today there are five kingdoms, with talk of changing to six. Uses the product groupings in a grocery store to clarify the concept. Looks at the differences of each kingdom: Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Stresses that the more we learn, the more likely this system will change yet again.
The delicate interplay of hormones is responsible for all the events of reproduction. Many other body processes are controlled and coordinated by these chemical messengers. The role hormones play in response to a sudden emergency-the "fight or flight" reaction-is also reviewed.
Shows the crucial part water plays in the body's functioning and the system for keeping it in balance. Drinking, sweating, and breathing are covered. The urinary tract is analyzed in detail, with particular attention to the functioning of the kidneys.
Investigates the digestive consequences when a family sits down to lunch. As the first morsel is put into the mouth, the camera watches from inside as the molars clamp down and the process of breakdown and transformation occurs. Follows the food through the entire alimentary tract, showing how it is dissolved in acid, how the liver and gallbladder work, and how digestion and absorption work.
Shows how the brain coordinates functions to make simple but lifesaving decisions. Provides an overview of how the cortex assesses incoming information, sends outgoing messages to the muscles, and stores "maps" of the world and the body. Also outlines how circuits of nerve cells operate in the brain and how individual nerve cells function.
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