environmental

Who Killed the Electric Car?

To give some context to the big 3 U.S. car companies’ plea for a bailout, we are rerunning this 2006 documentary film (92:25 min, 10 segments) that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of GM’s battery electric vehicle.

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If The Oil Runs Out

Blending drama and documentary, BBC’s If The Oil Runs Out investigates a scenario many experts fear will come true - when the cheap oil we depend on starts to run out. (56 min in 6 segments)

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Extreme Engineering - California Academy of Sciences

A short virtual tour (5:40 min) plus a Discovery Channel documentary (40 min in 4 segments) on the engineering achievement of the California Academy of Sciences, believed to be the greenest museum in the world.

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Tourism Puts Cozumel’s Reef at Risk

The world’s second largest coral reef is crumbling as cruise ships full of tourists anchor off Mexico’s Cozumel Island. Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports on the fears for the region’s fragile ecosystem. (2:27 min)

It Happened in Bhopal

Al Jazeera examines the devastating events of Bhopal, India in 1984, when a cloud of poisonous gas released over the city killed thousands in the world’s worst industrial disaster. (22:20 min in 2 segments)

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Water: GOOD Magazine

Beautiful animated information and stats about water. (2:31 min)

Niger’s Natural Wealth Exploited

The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining (4:23 min) and desertification (4:15 min)

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  • Edgar Cayce

    Decoding the Past – The Other Nostradamus
  • Frontiers: Sci-Tech

  • Parallel Universes
  • Michio Kaku Talks About ETs and the MultiVerse
  • Kaku: 3 Types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
  • Time Travel by Virtual Reality
  • Human Version 2.0
  • The Intelligent Revolution
  • Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs Boson
  • Nanotechnology Takes Off
  • China Watch

  • Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium
  • Olympic Water Cube [H2O]3
  • China’s Sexual Revolution
  • Uyghur - China’s Other Tibet
  • The Story of India

  • The Series - Volume 1-4
  • Plus:
  • The Life of Buddha
  • City of the Gods - Angkor, Cambodia
  • Food Around the World

    Street Food: Beijing | Cairo | Mumbai | Nairobi | New York | Penang
    No Reservations: Vietnam | Indonesia |
  • Someday We Will Have a Cool Map

    Africa > North Africa
    Egypt | Kenya | Morocco | Niger | Uganda

    Middle East > Afghanistan | Iran (Persia) | Iraq | Israel/Palestinian

    South Asia > Bangladesh | India | Pakistan
    Southeast Asia > Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Thailand | Vietnam
    Asia > China | Japan | Tibet

    Canada | U.S.
    Latin America > Brazil | Guatemala | Mexico | Nicaragua | Peru | Venezuela

    Europe > Great Britain | Greece | Italy | Macedonia | Russia | Spain | Germany

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