Young, Jon
Summary: "Coyote's guide lifts the lid off the mind of a mentor to reveal what happens behind-the-scenes, and offers dozens of activities, stories, songs, and games, so mentors, educators and parents can lead in ways that fit their ecosystems, their clients, and their specific goals. Coyote's guide sets fresh standards for environmental literacy that engages body, mind, and spirit"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: OWLLink Media 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The consensus of the world's science academies, reached after a series of annual conferences, is that climate change is real, and that it's caused by human activity. Why, then, do so many people doubt these findings? In this program Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse seeks to understand what may be the greatest amount of suspicion of the scientific community since the Dark Ages. Nurse goes head to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: How do plants and animals stave off overheating and dehydration under a relentless sun-especially when burdened with thick skins, hides, or shells? This program looks at adaptations and survival techniques that cope with intense heat, particularly in desert environments. Venturing into the Sonora Desert, viewers learn about the sprawling root system of the saguaro cactus and the water recycling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Flying into the eye of a storm, camping at the base of an active volcano, traveling backwards in time-students might think these adventures happen only in action movies. This video shows that they also take place in the lives of Earth scientists-those frequently daring researchers and theorists who study the past, present, and future of our planet and environment. Venturing into the realms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Whether they arise from human causes or forces within planet Earth itself, natural disasters threaten life and civilization with what seems to be growing frequency. This album of NewsHour segments studies troubling developments in marine, arctic, wetland, and urban environments—highlighting research opportunities that may help prevent future catastrophes. Coral reef decay, Everglades habitat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Once conducted almost entirely on dry land, the hunt for biochemical and pharmaceutical resources is shifting to the world's oceans. This program examines various phases of that research-algae and sponge extraction around the globe, the growing utilization of toxic substances produced by some marine organisms, and the practical application of treatments and cures that are often a dozen years in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Electricity and heat-two forms of energy that American households and businesses can't do without. More and more consumers and companies are realizing that we can't rely on fossil fuels for these necessities and must switch to renewable sources. This program investigates three main ways in which solar energy is used around the world: solar hot water, photovoltaic solar panels that generate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This collection of 34 visually stunning video clips explores the environment and facets of physics. Properties of rain, ice, snow, oil, trees, volcanoes, and salt are examined, as are aspects of quantum physics, light phenomena, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, Newton's Laws, and electricity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This collection of 60 video clips (1 minute 10 seconds each) presents innovations and opportunities arising from the impact of environmental threats on the people of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: As the world wakes up to the need to protect the environment, ABC News continues to cover the most crucial ecological issues of today-and tomorrow. This unprecedented program, reported from all seven continents on the eve of Earth Day 2007, examines urgent problems unfolding in the natural world and offers some real solutions to them. From Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Brazilian rain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program rounds up a diverse group of workers in the fields of food, agriculture, and natural resources-a food service manager, a dietetic technician, a dairy farm manager, a landscape supervisor, an environmental science and protection technician, and a water treatment plant operator-to illustrate what they do and how they go about doing it. Correlates to all applicable National and State...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Meet three women who have embarked on successful careers in the forestry industry. This program profiles Karen Trimmer, a helicopter pilot who transports raw lumber by air; Lorraine Muskwa, a dispatch attendant for a large pulp mill; and Chantal Isabelle, a forest technician responsible for ensuring that woodland development stays within legal boundaries. Remarks from co-workers and supervisors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: David Owen, a writer for The New Yorker, discussues the complex issues of sustainability as they relate to urban and suburban life. 'Green Manhattan,' an article that Owen wrote for The New Yorker about the city's inherent sustainability, was a major inspiration for the e² series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This video divides its time between California, with an eco-friendly hotel (Hospitality and Tourism Cluster) and a sustainable information and communications technology consultancy (Information Technology Cluster), and the East Coast, with a firm that invests in green business development (Finance Cluster) and a manufacturer of chemical-free eco-friendly cleaning products (Business Management...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This video spotlights Pennsylvania, where a regional transportation authority is using hybrid buses to reduce emission levels (Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Cluster), a legal firm is practicing environmental law (Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Cluster), and a company is making storage batteries for solar and wind farms using clean manufacturing practices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Thirty years ago in Freiburg, Germany, the 'green movement' was born. Today, the city serves as a model of environmental consciousness for architects, planners, and even politicians. Its successes inspired Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who supported many environmental initiatives in his city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Tad Fettig, the director and co-creator of the e² series, shares his perspectives on filming in China as this sleeping giant of industry, technology, and consumer demand awakens in the 21st century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Will environmental changes brought about by humans eventually destroy the potential for males of all species to reproduce? This Emmy Award-winning documentary explores that frightening possibility. Using sophisticated investigative techniques, scientists trace the ripple effect of estrogenic compounds in the environment. At first, we observe slight changes in the natural order, then witness the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Do the world's rainforests contain a cure for cancer and AIDS? This intriguing program travels to Jakarta, Surabaya, and the jungles of Kalimantan to investigate the preparation and use of natural remedies to combat illnesses such as skin fungus, malaria, and even AIDS. But logging continues unabated, even as ethnobiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Although genetic modification of plants and animals has been going on since the dawn of agriculture, technological changes of unprecedented scope have taken place in the food industry within the past few decades. This program explores the impact of technology on food production and the development of new and emerging foods. Viewers are introduced to recently devised methods of genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Combining aesthetics, sustainability, and function is the challenge of green architecture-and 20 teams of college students from North America and Europe brilliantly rise to that challenge as they compete to design, build, and demonstrate the operation of the most attractive and energy-efficient house at the 2007 Solar Decathlon held in Washington, D.C. This program tracks the teams from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Use this program to emphasize connections between the Earth's natural resources and the latest advances in technology and medicine. The video shows how research into the chemical makeup of geological and biological materials drives the innovation of energy systems, building techniques, and pharmaceuticals-and how these improvements can save lives and reduce stress on the environment. Resin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Gordon Pugh experienced first-hand the extremes of temperature brought on by global climate change. But after he swam the North Pole, Pugh vowed never to take another frigid dip. Then he heard of Lake Imja in the Himalayas, created by recent glacial melting, and Lake Pumori, a high-altitude body of water on Mt. Everest. As Pugh explains in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This collection of 40 video clips (1 minute 10 seconds each) addresses concerns about—and threats to—the sustainability of life on Earth as global warming increases in severity. The collection also spotlights recycling and alternative energy, keys to building a brighter future for the planet.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009