This is a user subpageW of notes about video files. Most are documentaries or lectures relating to climate change, renewable energy, or other environmental or related scientific scientific concepts or technologies.
Introduction[edit | edit source]
00:32, 4 November 2012 (PDT): This is a working page of notes that eventually I may copy or refactor to a list article in article space.
Motivation[edit | edit source]
The vast bulk of commercial broadcast television programming is mostly useless for promoting the kinds of pro-social and pro-environmental skills and behaviors that are central to sustainability and appropriate technology. However, television (and more generally, video) as a medium remains exceedingly useful for this.
- Imparting skills. Video can be an excellent medium for showing people how to grow food, compost their yard waste, eliminate energy waste, and otherwise reduce their carbon and environmental footprints. Particularly for manual skills, sometimes a visual demonstration conveys things that are hard to get across only with text and still photographs or diagrams. Videos may engage and inspire the viewer in ways that text alone may not.
- Promoting environmental awareness. Environmental problems often have a large behavioral component, such that solving the problem may require changing behavior on a large scale. This is true for example of man-made climate change, for which there is no comprehensive technological solution that can be brought to scale quickly. While some low-carbon technologies are reasonably mature and ready for large-scale deployment, other large sources of greenhouse gas emissions (including transport and meat production) cannot be reduced quickly while consumption persists at the current levels. The fastest and cheapest potential way to reduce emissions is often to persuade consumers to consume less of the things that produce emissions. Unfortunately persuasion is difficult, but few technologies of persuasion are more effective than television, which is why advertisers exploit it with a skill that the green movement would do well to emulate.
- Persuading the unpersuaded. Many if not most people tend to exhibit what Robert Gifford calls "environmental numbness".[1] They may not be actively opposed to pro-environmental behaviors and policies, but they are generally indifferent to them. An individual who is concerned about the environment should strive to reduce his or her harmful impact, for example by minimizing consumption of goods and services that burn fossil fuels, but to be maximally effective at protecting the environment the individual must go on to persuade other people to minimize their harmful impact as well. Thus anyone with an interest in protecting the environment needs to be in the persuasion business - we must persuade people who don't think much about their impact on the environment to start thinking about it, and minimizing it, both through individual behavior change and by demanding and supporting collective solutions by governments. While it may be difficult for every individual to become articulate and persuasive directly, anyone can direct others to documentary films that record the most persuasive people the environmental movement has produced.
There are a surprising number of documentary films and programs on environmental issues, but they are buried in a vastly greater avalanche of mainstream television programming, much of which promotes environmentally destructive behaviors and is thus part of the problem. To use television effectively, environmentalists need the following tools:
- Video on demand - we cannot rely on broadcasters, particularly the major networks, to schedule ("push") uplifting content for us. Instead we have to pro-actively seek out and "pull" the content we want.
- Social recommendation - we must find suitable video content available for viewing online, which we can then propagate by linking to it on social Web sites.
- Public exhibitions - it can be useful to show environmental documentaries at social gatherings and then discuss them.
Organization[edit | edit source]
This page lists videos by creator and topic. It is useful to group videos by the same creator together, because accessing a video is often a function of who created it. Some creators post many or all of the videos on their own Web sites. Others do less to facilitate on-demand viewing, instead expecting viewers to watch everything they put on their channels, or to view their films in a theater.
For each video I give links to such information as I can find about it, including (if available):
- The creator's official page about the film or program
- A link to the video viewable online at the creator's site, if available
- A link to the video on a commercial video service such as wikipedia:Netflix
- A link to the program's IMDB page
- A link to the program's Wikipedia article, if any
- (Someday) a link to the program's Appropedia article
A note about copyright[edit | edit source]
Unfortunately nearly all the better films and videos about the environment are under copyright, as is typical with most professionally-made video content. While the need for content creators to get paid is understandable, any approach that achieves less than the widest possible viewing audience would seem highly counterproductive to the environmental cause. Climate change threatens the very survival of civilization, if not the human species, and someone is trying to prevent their warning from reaching the maximum number of people? That doesn't make sense to me. It would be useful for a philanthropist to buy rights to all these films, perhaps after they finish their theater or broadcast runs, and make them freely available to everyone.
Content creators who do put some or all of their videos online for free viewing, such as PBS, should be rewarded. Consider donating to them.
Save the planet: watch TV![edit | edit source]
TV watching doesn't get a lot of respect, and deservedly so. But watching videos about environmental issues can be surprisingly informative. It does not replace the written word for detailed technical content, but watching video is a useful way to augment and reinforce knowledge from reading. Watching video is also easier than reading dense technical prose, so it is a handy way to unwind at the end of the day without completely throwing one's time and mind away on vapid entertainment.
The many videos available on climate change, for example, provide a comprehensive (if necessarily somewhat shallow) overview of the major issues: the causes of climate change, potential solutions, and barriers to individual and collective action. A person who watches all the climate change videos (soon to be) on this page will certainly know more about the subject than the average person.
But to repeat from a previous section: if you're motivated enough to read this page, you're probably already at least persuaded climate change is a serious problem, and you're probably well ahead of the average person in terms of making some sort of response to it. Thus a big part of the value this page can add for you is to provide resources you can use to generate interest and action from the people around you. Unless you live in some sort of an eco-village where everybody is already living as cleanly as Joan Pick,[2] you're possibly surrounded by people who are taking less action on climate change than you are. What you need is a way to show them why they should act. The videos on this page might help you make your strongest case.
The future of this page[edit | edit source]
20:53, 5 November 2012 (PST): initially I'm editing this as a user subpage. By convention on most wikis including Appropedia, user pages and user subpages are only edited by the user whose username they are under. The user does not "own" the page, since it is on a wiki, and wikis are inherently collaborative, but it is customary for users to refrain from editing pages in another user's space.
If you see a typo or a broken link, feel free to fix it. For any large-scale additions or rearrangements, please suggest them first on my user talk page, and if detailed discussion is necessary we can continue it on User talk:Teratornis/List of environmental videos.
If demand warrants, we can move this page to article space as a list article. That would facilitate collaboration - i.e., the editing community could update it as they find more environmental videos.
It might also be nice to make separate articles about each notable film or program series mentioned on this page (many of them already have articles on Wikipedia). That would allow this page to be more compact, as the page would only need to list one link per film or program, with perhaps a one-line description (which is more in keeping with the style for list articles on Wikipedia). Ultimately Appropedia should have a comprehensive directory (lists plus individual articles) of documentary and instructional films, television programs, and videos (professional and amateur) relating to Appropedia's remit (sustainability and appropriate technology).
Public Broadcasting Service[edit | edit source]
PBS puts many videos online, as clips, previews, and full episodes.
How to search for videos on PBS[edit | edit source]
There are several ways to search:
- By using the search feature on PBS, for example: Search PBS site for climate change
- By browsing from lists of videos: 472 full episodes online under Science and Nature.
- By using Google video search, for example: Google site:pbs.org climate change
- From the search options on the left column, select Videos. That produces a long URL like this:
- You can also search from Google Video search pages such as:
- http://video.google.com/ which redirects to:
- http://www.google.com/videohp
- You can specify a date range (such as videos less than 1 year old) and a size range (to find shorter or longer videos). I don't see a way to put these options into Google search operators. Here are some other sites that document some Google search operators but I don't see any operators corresponding to Google search filtering options:
- Search pbs.org for "climate change" videos having a long (20+ minutes) duration, uploaded within the last year:
To-do: find the good ones.
PBS Nova[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Nova (TV series)
- wikipedia:List of NOVA episodes
- Search Results for “carbon” - on the PBS Nova Beta site; produces some video clips to poke through
- IMDB page - Nova (1974– ) - TV Series Documentary - 4 min - Documentary | Biography
The wikipedia:Equinox (TV series) article says: "Nova (TV series) ... often bought in and re-voiced Equinox and Horizon films."
What's up with the Weather? - 2000[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 27, Episode 19 - What's Up with the Weather? (18 Apr. 2000) - TV Episode - 54 min
- rrq1Na90-DQ|Global Warming. Part 1 - Is it getting warmer?
- fBDL8mL5GG4|Global Warming. Part 2 - Climates of the past
- aUhP_XJyztE|Global Warming. Part 3 - Man-made or natural? (1of2)
- kr3-0lKb1AI|Global Warming. Part 3 - Man-made or natural? (2of2)
- -eLKIWoIWlM|Global Warming. Part 4 - Consequences and Climate models
- _BDcUmeoJdI|Global Warming. Part 5 - What we can expect?
- Netflix page - not viewable online
Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance - 2002[edit | edit source]
While this video is not specifically about climate change, much of climate change research occurs at the poles, where the climate is responding the fastest to man-made forcing. The early polar explorers opened the regions to the scientific research going on there today. Shackleton's story is also a uniquely inspiring example of never giving up in the face of great difficulty. Solving climate change will require at least that much determination.
- IMDB page - Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance - Nova: Season 29, Episode 15 - (26 Mar. 2002) - 118 min
- NOVA Online | Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance | (QuickTime) | PBS
03:14, 29 October 2012 (UTC): This episode does not seem to be available on Netflix, YouTube, or anywhere else I looked online.
World in the Balance - 2004[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 31, Episode 16 - World in the Balance: The People Paradox (20 Apr. 2004) - 54 min
- IMDB page - Season 31, Episode 17 - World in the Balance: China Revs Up (15 Apr. 2004) - 54 min
- Original PBS Broadcast Date: April 20, 2004 - I don't see a copy of the video on PBS.org.
- NOVA site page - it's about the population explosion mostly, and environmental threats.
- Netflix page - not viewable online.
- I don't see a copy on YouTube.
Storm that Drowned a City - 2005[edit | edit source]
- NOVA site page - it's about New Orleans.
- IMDB page - Season 33, Episode 7 - Storm That Drowned a City - 54 min
Dimming the Sun - 2006[edit | edit source]
- Nova page
- IMDB page - Season 33, Episode 16 - Dimming the Sun (18 Apr. 2006) - 54 min
- Global Dimming - the BBC version of the above video
- Global Dimming - 49:05 - full episode
Saved by the Sun - 2007[edit | edit source]
- Saved by the Sun; Season 34: 2006–2007
- Saved by the Sun - Duration: - Premiere Date: 04/24/2007
- As the Earth heats up at a dangerous rate and fossil fuels become scarcer, ordinary citizens and businesses are bypassing the federal government to lead the way in exploring a clean, renewable source of power: the sun.
- PBS Nova - Saved By The Sun.avi
- Saved by the Sun - Duration: - Premiere Date: 04/24/2007
The Big Energy Gamble - 2009[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 36, Episode 9 - The Big Energy Gamble (20 Jan. 2009) - TV Episode - 54 min
- The Big Energy Gamble Can California's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases actually succeed? Aired January 20, 2009 on PBS
- Full episode on PBS - Premiere Date: 01/20/2009 - Episode Expires: Thu 08 Nov 2012
- PBS.Nova The Big Energy Gamble.720p
- Watch The Big Energy Gamble: Nova Online | Netflix
Making Stuff - 2011[edit | edit source]
- Watch Making Stuff: NOVA Online | Netflix - the whole four-part series appears to be viewable online at Netflix
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 9 - Making Stuff: Stronger (11 Jan. 2011) - 54 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 01/18/2011
- David Pogue tests his mettle against the world's strongest stuff, from steel and Kevlar to bioengineered silk.
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 01/18/2011
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 10 - Making Stuff: Smaller (26 Jan. 2011) - 54 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 01/25/2011
- See the future of tiny stuff --from from silicon chips to micro-robots that probe the body.
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 01/25/2011
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 11 - Making Stuff: Cleaner (2 Feb. 2011) - 54 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 02/01/2011
- Can innovative materials help solve the energy crisis and lead to a sustainable future?
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:07) - Premiere Date: 02/01/2011
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 12 - Making Stuff: Smarter (12 Feb. 2011) - 54 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:08) - Premiere Date: 02/08/2011
- Explore a new generation of ingenious materials, including real-life invisibility cloaks.
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:08) - Premiere Date: 02/08/2011
- Making Stuff Cleaner
- Making Stuff: Series Overview
- PBS site video page - evidently requires purchase
- Making Stuff: Cleaner full episode on Hulu - contains frequent commercials (ugh)
- NOVA _ Making Stuff: Cleaner on DailyMotion, but powered by Hulu
- Short (and therefore largely useless) clips:
- NOVA {{! Making Stuff Cleaner premieres February 2, 2011 on PBS}} - Season 38: 2010–2011; promo clip
- Nova Making Stuff Cleaner visits a Waste-to-Energy WTE Plant in Peekskill, New York
- Making Stuff Smaller
- NOVA {{! Making Stuff Smaller }} - promo clip
Power Surge - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 17 - Power Surge (20 Apr. 2011) - 54 min
- NOVA: Power Surge Airs Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV
- Full episode on PBS.org
- Short clips:
- NOVA "Power Surge" Jimmy Carter quote - shows archival footage of Jimmy Carter mentioning that his solar panel on the White House could be just a museum piece, then shows the actual museum in China that now displays the very solar panel.
- jimmy carter's prophetic speech about the white house solar panels.avi
Extreme Ice - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 36, Episode 13 - Extreme Ice (16 Feb. 2010) - 54 min
- Extreme Ice - An acclaimed photographer teams up with scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic glaciers. Aired December 28, 2011 on PBS
- Full episode on PBS.org - Premiere Date: 03/24/2009
- NOVA {{! Extreme Ice | PBS }} - promo clip
- James Balog whose work appears in this episode also gave a TED talk: James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
Secrets Beneath the Ice - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 38, Episode 7 - Secrets Beneath the Ice (28 Dec. 2010) - 53 min
- Secrets Beneath the Ice - Is Antarctica headed for a catastrophic meltdown? New evidence of ancient climate change may hold clues. Aired December 28, 2011 on PBS
- Full episode on PBS.org - Premiere Date: 12/28/2010
Inside the Megastorm - 2012[edit | edit source]
An episode about wikipedia:Hurricane Sandy airing November 18, 2012 at 7 pm and November 21 at 9 pm on PBS.[3][4][5]
- Preview on PBS - Duration: (0:30) Premiere Date: 11/08/2012 Episode Expires: Never
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:37) Premiere Date: 11/18/2012 Episode Expires: Never
- IMDB page - Nova: Season 40, Episode 5 - Inside the Megastorm (18 Nov. 2012) TV Episode - 54 min
- Google site:pbs.org hurricane sandy - PBS has lots of other coverage about Hurricane Sandy, not surprisingly.
- Google site:video.pbs.org hurricane sandy
- http://www.pbs.org/search/?q=hurricane+sandy&mediatype=Video
PBS Nova ScienceNOW[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:NOVA scienceNOW - covers several unrelated topics per episode
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/
- http://video.pbs.org/program/nova-science-now/ - many episodes and previews online at PBS - To-do: list some of the interesting episodes.
- Season 3, episode 2 - Carbon capture
- Season 4, episode 4 - Carbon capture
- The Science of Picky Eaters, Smart Marine Mammals, Sangeeta Bhatia, Capturing Carbon Season 4: Episode 4 - full episode on PBS site
- Season 4, episode 6 - Algae fuel
- Smart Grid - Posted 02.23.11 NOVA scienceNOW
- Program: NOVA scienceNOW Episode: Smart Grid
- Our electric grid is inefficient and shows signs of strain. Can a "smart grid" help? - Duration: (8:53) - Premiere Date: 02/23/2011
- search for more videos about "smart grid"
- Toward a Smart Electric Grid - interview with Vijay Vaitheeswaran (text)
- Cars That Power the Grid - Duration: (2:11) - Premiere Date: 02/15/2011
- Electric cars may play a critical role in a future "smart grid."
Victory Garden[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:The Victory Garden (TV series) - about gardening
Nature[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Nature (TV series) - about wildlife; no recent episodes appear to be primarily about threats to wildlife
The Prize[edit | edit source]
Adapted from wikipedia:The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by wikipedia:Daniel Yergin
- The Prize (Part 1 of 8) - "Our Plan"
- The Prize (Part 2 of 8) - "Empires of Oil"
- The Prize (Part 3 of 8) - "Black Giant"
- The Prize (Part 4 of 8) - "War and Oil"
- The Prize (Part 5 of 8) - "Crude Diplomacy"
- The Prize (Part 6 of 8) - "Power to the Producers"
- The Prize (Part 7 of 8) - "The Tinderbox"
- The Prize (Part 8 of 8) - "New Order of Oil"
Frontline (U.S. TV series)[edit | edit source]
PBS has some episodes online for free viewing. These relate to energy and climate change.
Frontline 2008 episodes[edit | edit source]
- HEAT - full episode on PBS site
- Duration: (1:56:19)
- Premiere Date: 10/21/2008; IMDB listing: season 26, episode 12
- An investigation into America's energy landscape and what can be done to save our planet.
- Description page which references the earlier Frontline episode about climate change, What's up with the weather? which aired in 2000 (season 18, episode 8).
Frontline 2012 episodes[edit | edit source]
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown[edit | edit source]
- Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown - Duration: (54:40) Premiere Date: 02/28/2012 (another PBS page for this episode with different layout and links)
- In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the frontlines.
Climate of Doubt[edit | edit source]
- Climate of Doubt - Duration: (53:47) Premiere Date: 10/23/2012
- Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What’s behind this massive reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate.
- PBS descriptive page about the episode
- How Al Gore Galvanized the Climate Change Movement — On Both Sides - has a clip from the documentary that shows how Al Gore's disproportionately large carbon footprint energizes the tu quoque fallacies of climate science deniers. This argument, although fallacious, resonates with the average person who hasn't internalized the elaborate rationalizations of hypermobile environmentalists. After all, if Al Gore believes what he says, why doesn't he behave accordingly? Man-made climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and everybody knows jet aircraft and limousines are fueled by petroleum, a fossil fuel. Most people do not know the exact carbon footprint of Al Gore's travel schedule, but they can probably guess that flying on private jets and driving in personal limousines probably burns a lot more fossil fuel than most ordinary individuals do. Surely, if man-made climate change is to be controlled, that sort of profligate greenhouse gas spewing will have to be eliminated. In fact, hypermobile individuals have among the highest personal carbon footprints on the planet, so their behavior is among the most inconsistent with an equitable solution to climate change.
- Granted, even if Al Gore was as behaviorally consistent as Joan Pick,[2] deniers would probably attack him as a lentil-munching[6] hairshirt-wearing hippie who wants to take the world back to the Stone Age, but I believe that argument would get less traction because people tend to admire individuals whose behavior is true to their values, and who lead by example. Consider the veneration for Mother Teresa, due to her conspicuous vow of poverty and her service to the poor. Christopher Hitchens still found reasons to complain about her, but he hardly turned her into the punching bag that Al Gore has become with the deniers. I believe it is harder to attack people who aren't as obviously hypocritical, especially when they are clearly behaving in ways that help others. A person who lives low carbon (in contrast to the hypermobile Mother Teresa, by the way, who jetted often around the world in her later years to collect awards from various world leaders) is clearly competing less with others for finite resources, and spewing less conventional pollution into the air. Most people are probably smart enough to grasp that in some sense, a person who lives in a low impact way is having a low impact on them. This makes a behaviorally consistent climate advocate a harder target for personal attacks, although not invulnerable, because climate change deniers are as unethical as could be expected for people who promote the destruction of Earth's Holocene climate stability.
- Given that climate change deniers get so wound up when they see hypocritical environmentalists, I think we should take that argument away from them by not being hypocrites. That is, everyone who claims to care about the environment should above all try to destroy as little of it as possible.
Earth: The Operators' Manual[edit | edit source]
A three-episode series about climate change science and mitigation.
- Description page on PBS
- Earth: The Operators' Manual - Full episode on PBS
- EARTH: The Operators Manual - Powering the Planet
- Energy Quest USA - preview
- wikipedia:Richard Alley - the presenter
- Video clips on YouTube
- Watch and share
Planet Forward: Fossil Fuels & Beyond[edit | edit source]
- Fossil Fuels & Beyond - Duration: (55:23) - Premiere Date: 04/15/2009
- It's web to television and back online again for Planet Forward's ongoing conversation between citizens, experts and policymakers on the formula for our energy future. Instead of experts expounding to voiceless viewers, Planet Forward's emphasis is bottom-up, with the best online submissions from citizens - videos, essays, poems, and more - leading and driving the conversation.
Now on PBS[edit | edit source]
NOW was a Public Broadcasting Service newsmagazine that focused on social and political issues.
- wikipedia:NOW on PBS
- Search NOW episodes for Global Warming - 05:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC): there are some more I have not listed below yet, which seem to be older episodes not (yet?) available on the convenient video.pbs.org site.
- Sea Change, January 9, 2009.
- A rise in sea levels isn't the only impact global warming is having on the world's oceans. A growing body of evidence suggests that climate change is also affecting ocean currents and the chemistry of the seas, with potentially catastrophic results.
- The Ocean Tipping Point episode (see below) seems to supersede this episode.
- Water World, Duration: (25:35), Premiere Date: 10/23/2009
- Is climate change turning coastal countries into water worlds? NOW travels to Bangladesh to examine some innovative solutions being implemented in a country where entire communities are inundated by water, battered by cyclones, and flooded from their homes.
- Climate Crisis, Duration: (21:38), Premiere Date: 11/27/2009
- The Maldives, a nation of roughly 1200 low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean, could be underwater by the end of this century if climate change causes ocean levels to rise. On the eve of the big climate summit in Copenhagen, the country's president, Mohamed Nasheed, is warning of a massive exodus from the Maldives if drastic global action is not taken.
- Electric Car Dreams, Duration: (23:50), Premiere Date: 10/30/2009
- NOW investigates how the Danish government and Better Place are working together to put electric cars into the hands of as many Danish families as possible. The idea is still having trouble getting out of the garage here in America, but Denmark could be an inspiration.
- Power Struggle, Duration: (22:58), Premiere Date: 08/07/2009
- NOW travels to California, which has the most ambitious clean energy plan in the nation. But the state's efforts face stiff opposition from property owners and conservationists who prefer renewable energy from "local sources," such as photovoltaic rooftop solar panels.
- Ocean Tipping Point?, Duration: (13:40), Premiere Date: 07/03/2009
- NOW looks at a growing body of evidence that suggests climate change is affecting the chemistry of the seas, which could have potentially catastrophic results on the way we live. NOW travels deep into our oceans with a scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and help from other researchers for a first hand look at this stunning sea change, and what we can do about it.
- Food, Inc., Duration: (24:10), Premiere Date: 06/05/2009
- Americans have a longstanding love affair with food -- the modern supermarket has, on average, 47,000 products. But do we really know what goes into making the products we consume? David Brancaccio talks with filmmaker Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., which takes a hard look at the secretive and surprising journey food takes on the way from processing plants to our dinner tables.
- Green Jobs: Hope or Hype?, Duration: (24:10), Premiere Date: 05/22/2009
- NOW on PBS talks with environmental activist Van Jones, founder of "Green For All," a group dedicated to bringing green jobs to disadvantaged Americans. In March, Jones was appointed Special Advisor on Green Jobs at the President's Council for Environmental Quality. Now that he has the President's ear, will Jones be creating a new career frontier for America?
- On Thin Ice, Duration: (56:46), Premiere Date: 04/17/2009
- In a special one-hour NOW on PBS, David Brancaccio and environmentalist Conrad Anker -- one of the world's leading high altitude climbers -- adventure to the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayan Mountains, the source of the Ganges River, to witness the effects of global warming first-hand.
- Race, Class, and Katrina, Duration: (22:47), Premiere Date: 09/05/2005
- In the aftermath of Katrina, NOW on PBS Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa reported from the devastated Mississippi coast, where tens of thousands were without essential services like power and water.
Need to Know[edit | edit source]
Need to Know is an American public television news program produced by WNET, New York City and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations in the United States. Many or most episodes cover several topics. PBS breaks out some (all?) of the individual segments, but you may have to search the video.pbs.org site for the segment you want.
- wikipedia:Need to Know (PBS)
- Need to Know topics list: Environment, and Climate Desk
- David vs. Goliaths, Duration: (25:02), Premiere Date: 08/10/2012
- Need to Know reports from the Pacific Island nation of Palau about its effort to hold the world’s leading industrial powers legally responsible for the environmental damage their greenhouse gas emissions are causing.
- Interview: Matthew Pawa, Premiere Date: 08/12/2012
- Bringing climate change to court - page with more text description
- Maria Hinojosa talks with environmental lawyer Matthew Pawa, who has become a pioneer in bringing lawsuits based on damage allegedly caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
- Rising tide, Duration: (13:02), Premiere Date: 04/27/2012
- This week on Need to Know: how the city of Norfolk, Virginia is grappling with massive flooding caused by sea-level rise.
- Green jobs, volunteerism, Duration: (25:08), Premiere Date: 05/25/2012
- Need to Know correspondent Mona Iskander updates her report from Greenville, Mich., about a town that tried to reinvent itself by bringing in a solar panel manufacturing company.
- Nuclear energy in the US, Duration: (25:11), Premiere Date: 10/21/2011
- Is nuclear power a safe, cost-effective alternative to our current energy sources, or do the risks outweigh the benefits? Maria Hinojosa hosts.
- Regulation and the EPA, Duration: (24:59), Premiere Date: 09/30/2011
- Need to Know visits a small town in upstate New York that has been plagued by chemical pollution and disease, and FreedomWorks' Matt Kibbe discusses the EPA. Ray Suarez hosts.
- Green jobs in Michigan, garage sales, Duration: (24:54), Premiere Date: 09/23/2011
- Need to Know visits a town in Michigan for a first-hand look at the challenges faced in creating a new economy for "green jobs." Also: The changing nature of the American garage sale. Maria Hinojosa hosts.
- Extreme weather and climate change, Duration: (4:27), Premiere Date: 08/26/2011
- As the first major hurricane of the season threatens the Eastern Seaboard, Need To Know investigates the links between extreme weather and climate change.
- Seeds of progress, Duration: (10:16), Premiere Date: 08/19/2011
- Detroits urban farming movement is thriving, supplying fresh produce, jobs and revived communities. Large scale industrial farms are now knocking at Detroits door with their own plans. Desiree Cooper examines this new food-based economy and the issues holding it back.
- California nuclear safety, over-population., Duration: (53:56), Premiere Date: 07/15/2011
- Are California's nuclear plants disaster ready? A look at the over-population fears of the 1960s and 1970s. Gloria Steinem on the women's movement's gains.
- Tornadoes, Duration: (53:43), Premiere Date: 05/27/2011
- We explore whether climate change has played a role in this deadly season of tornadoes.
- Climate change, cyber-security, Arab Spring, Duration: (53:42), Premiere Date: 05/20/2011, climate change segment begins at 20:12
- The threats climate change poses to human health.
- Climate change, pirates, corruption, Duration: (53:38), Premiere Date: 02/25/2011 (climate change segment starts at 16:10 (the Rising Tide episode that aired later on 04/27/2012 may supersede it)
- We go to Norfolk, Virginia, where climate change is causing flooding.
- Nuclear waste and the problem of obesity, Duration: (53:13), Premiere Date: 09/24/2010 (nuclear waste segment starts at 40:57)
- Disappearing Delta, Duration: (7:47), Premiere Date: 09/02/2010
- Need To Know examines the history of Louisiana's disappearing coastline.
- The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Duration: (17:12), Premiere Date: 08/27/2010
- Harry Shearer, the writer comic Simpsons voice actor/radio host and longtime resident of New Orleans, wants to puncture the myths and misperceptions about Hurricane Katrina on its five-year anniversary.
- The David and Goliath story of Crude, Duration: (7:32), Premiere Date: 07/14/2010
- Over the course of three years director Joe Berlinger followed one of the largest and most controversial class-action environmental lawsuits in the world, which pits 30,000 rainforest dwellers from the Amazon jungle in Ecuador against the oil giant Chevron.Then Berlinger was dragged into his own battle with Chevron when they subpoenaed him to turn over 600 hours of his unused outtakes.
Journey to Planet Earth[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page
- Journey to Planet Earth (2003 - 2011) TV Series Documentary - 60 min
- Earth Focus: Journey to Planet Earth - a program about the filmmakers behind the series
- PBS information page about the series
2003 episodes[edit | edit source]
The wikipedia:Brisbane Times site appears to have some episodes online, but none of them play for me; for example:
- On the Brink
- On The Brink focuses on case studies that link armed conflict and political crises with environmental issues such as the loss of grasslands, spreading disease, deforestation, soil erosion, water scarcities, surging populations and global climate change. The program features the work of scientists, community organizers and political leaders, as they grapple with the fact that the world's political security may be bound up with the quality of the land, air and water.
2009 episodes[edit | edit source]
- State of the Planet's Oceans - IMDB episode description page
- PBS episode description page
- Google "state of the planet's oceans"
I cannot find the full video online, but here are some excerpts:
- STATE OF THE PLANET'S OCEANS | PBS - length: 2:47
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Melting Greenland Ice Sheets Contribute to Global Sea Level Rise - length: 5:41
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Lessons in Success - The Gladden Spit Marine Reserve - length: 4:37
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Sea Level Rise Will Create Environmental Migrants - length: 4:36
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Decimation of the Atlantic Cod Fishery - length: 4:13
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Lessons in Success - The Dry Tortugas Marine Sanctuary - length: 2:35
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Retreat of the South American Glaciers - length: 1:59
- Contains a narration error: Matt Damon says the Andes rise to over 25,000 feet. In reality, the tallest mountain in the Andes (and in the Americas) is wikipedia:Aconcagua at 22,841 ft.
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Water-Starved Refugees in Peru - length: 4:03
- State of the Planet's Oceans: Climate Change Affects Everything - length: 1:32
- State of the Planet's Oceans: New Bedford, Massachusetts - A Cautionary Tale - length: 2:48
- State of the Planet's Oceans Out of Work Cod Fisherman Lament a Lost Way of Life - length: 8:26
- Journey to Planet Earth: "State of the Planet's Oceans" Hosted by Matt Damon - length: 1:28
2011 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Episode: Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization - Duration: (1:24:10), Premiere Date: 03/30/2011
- "Plan B" provides a glimpse into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable resources as well as strategies to avoid the growing threat of climate change. As prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about carbon emissions cast a shadow over the future of fossil fuels, wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing fossil fuels at a pace and on a scale previously unimagined.
PBS NewsHour[edit | edit source]
Coping with Climate Change[edit | edit source]
- Coping with Climate Change - series on PBS NewsHour
2010 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Scorching Heat Wave Waylays East Coast States - AIR DATE: July 7, 2010
- Green Tech Demands Scarce 'Rare Earth' Minerals - Duration: (10:01) - Premiere Date: 06/14/2010
- Correspondent Kira Kay reports on the hunt for "rare earth" minerals, elements that are key to manufacturing many high-tech devices.
2011 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Heat Wave Has Midwest Agriculture Melting, Food Prices Rising - Duration: (5:56), Premiere Date: 07/28/2011
- Agriculture has been suffering as farmers across states such as Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma have seen their crops decimated in a summer filled with drought and heat waves. Hari Sreenivasan talks with Harvest Public Media reporters Frank Morris and Eric Durban about the troubles local farmers are facing with can eventually translate into problems in consumers' wallets.
- Heat Wave, Drought Create 'Grim' Crop Yields for Farmers in Plains, South - Duration: (6:33), Premiere Date: 08/03/2011
- New research by the National Drought Mitigation Center shows 12 percent of U.S. land is in the midst of an exceptional drought, which is the largest contiguous area to suffer such difficult conditions in 12 years. Ray Suarez discusses how the drought has punished American farmers with Harvest Public Media's Frank Morris.
- Sweltering Heat Wave Roasts 24 States, Feeds Wildfires - Duration: (2:46), Premiere Date: 07/12/2011
- A heat wave blasted half of the U.S. Tuesday and triple-digit temperatures roasted Americans in cities in the Midwest and South. Gwen Ifill reports on the unrelenting hot weather, which broke a series of records and triggered heat warnings and advisories in multiple states.
- Ariz. Wildfire Spreads as Record-Breaking Heat Wave Grips Eastern U.S. - Duration: (8:27), Premiere Date: 06/09/2011
- Tanker airplanes on Thursday swooped over the mountains of Eastern Arizona, dropping clouds of retardant in hopes of containing the so-called Wallow wildfire. Also, much of the Eastern U.S. suffered temperatures reaching well into the 90s. Ray Suarez discusses the extreme weather with AccuWeather's Evan Myers.
- Worst Drought in Texas History Ravages Crops, Livestock - Duration: (7:44), Premiere Date: 08/31/2011
- Texas is caught in the grip of a devastating heat wave that has created the worst year of drought in the state's history. Gwen Ifill discusses the extreme conditions and their toll on crops, livestock and homes with NPR correspondent Wade Goodwyn.
2012 episodes[edit | edit source]
- How Cities Should Prepare for Future Natural Disasters - Duration: (11:54) - Premiere Date: 10/31/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
- Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming - Duration: (10:25) - Premiere Date: 09/17/2012
- Physicist Richard Muller was one of the scientists who denied climate change and humans' role warming the earth. But after spending years researching and analyzing countless studies, Muller concluded climate change scientists were right, that humans had contributed to the rise in the earth's temperature. Spencer Michels reports.
- Activists Want Smart Meters Gone, Say They're Bad for Health - Duration: (8:50) - Premiere Date: 07/20/2012
- Within the next five years, it is expected that nearly 65 million homes in the U.S. will have wireless smart meters. But some California environmentalists, liberals, Tea Party supporters and other activists are not enthused by this. At the heart of the debate is whether smart meters can cause illness. Spencer Michels reports.
- Miles O'Brien Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power - Duration: (6:18) - Premiere Date: 07/13/2012
- Last week, a powerful "derecho" storm hammered the mid-Atlantic, snuffing out power during the peak of a sweltering heat wave for nearly a week in some homes. Days later, our science correspondent Miles O'Brien traveled to Austin, Tex. to look at a neighborhood that operates on a smart grid. We spoke to him about his report on that project, as he cruised the neighborhood in a borrowed Chevy Volt.
- In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power - Duration: (8:05) - Premiere Date: 07/13/2012
- Miles O'Brien examines power grid reliability in a neighborhood near Austin, Texas that uses "smart grid" technology to track - and control - its energy consumption.
- From Wildfires to Heat Wave, Extreme Weather Batters U.S. - Duration: (10:53), Premiere Date: 07/02/2012
- The continuing U.S. heat wave has killed at least 22 people, while states try to grapple with storm-driven power outages on the East Coast and wildfires in the West. Tom Bearden reports on the experiences of families in Fort Collins, Colo., who returned to their homes after the wildfires to see what treasures had survived.
- What's Causing Unusually Hot Temperatures in U.S.? - Duration: (6:00), Premiere Date: 07/02/2012
- Lack of water, "the great air conditioner", is causing unusually high temperatures and extreme weather events in the United States, Kevin Trenberth with the National Center for Atmospheric Research tells Judy Woodruff.
- Obama Visits Colorado's Wildfire Sites - Duration: (3:28), Premiere Date: 06/29/2012
- President Obama traveled to Colorado to assess the damages wreaked by record-breaking wildfires. One person has died in the fires and more than 300 homes were destroyed.
America Revealed[edit | edit source]
- IMDB series page - America Revealed (2012– ) TV Series Documentary - 60 min
A four-part program hosted by wikipedia:Yul Kwon focusing on the infrastructure of the United States. Infrastructure relates to sustainability and the environment in that:
- What sorts of infrastructure humans choose to build can make human societies more or less sustainable, for example by mitigating or contributing to climate change.
- Climate change directly threatens much infrastructure.
Food Machine - 2012[edit | edit source]
America's agriculture and food industry.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 1 - Food Machine (11 Apr. 2012)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:12) - Premiere Date: 04/11/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
Nation On The Move - 2012[edit | edit source]
America's transportation infrastructure.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 2 - Nation on the Move (18 Apr. 2012)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:10) - Premiere Date: 04/18/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
Excerpt clips:
- YouTube: AMERICA REVEALED - Traffic Trouble in LA - PBS - 4:33
- New York Subway - Duration: (1:45) - Premiere Date: 04/18/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
Electric Nation - 2012[edit | edit source]
America's electric power infrastructure.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 3 - Electric Nation (25 Apr. 2012)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:11) - Premiere Date: 04/25/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
Excerpt clips:
- Smart Grid Solutions - Duration: (5:39) - Premiere Date: 02/14/2012
- At Mission Produce’s avocado processing facility, their average electricity bill ran about $50,000 a month. By redesigning their system to account for each and every kilowatt, they can now monitor energy consumption in real time. It’s all part of the smart grid system. Mission’s system manager enthusiastically explains how it works and why their monthly utility bill is only half of what it used to be.
Made in the U.S.A. - 2012[edit | edit source]
Manufacturing in the United States.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 4 - Made in the U.S.A. (2 May 2012)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (53:10) - Premiere Date: 05/02/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious[edit | edit source]
e2 is a series of environmental documentary episodes narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. It aired on PBS from 2006-2009.
- Episode list on IMDB - some episodes are viewable on Hulu.com from IMDB
- 10 episodes viewable online at PBS.org
- Google site:netflix.com e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious
The director is Tad Fettig who has uploaded several episodes on Vimeo. PBS uploaded some episodes to YouTube, and other episodes are viewable on the PBS site.
2006 season 1 e2 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Watch e2 Online | Netflix - season 1 with 6 episodes
PBS appears to have uploaded season 1 YouTube:
- Season 1 page on YouTube
- another Season 1 page on YouTube
- Design: e2 : e2 - The Green Apple | PBS
- Design: e2 : Green for All
- Design: e2 : The Green Machine
- Design: e2 : Gray to Green
- Design: e2 : China: From Red to Green?
- Design: e2 : Deeper Shade of Green
2007 e2 season 2 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Season 2 episode list on IMDB (12 episodes)
- Season 2, Episode 1 Harvesting the Wind (19 Oct. 2007)
- Season 2, Episode 2 Energy for a Developing World (26 Oct. 2007)
- Season 2, Episode 3 Paving the Way (2 Nov. 2007)
- Season 2, Episode 4 Growing Energy (9 Nov. 2007)
- Season 2, Episode 5 State of Resolve (16 Nov. 2007)
- Season 2, Episode 6 Coal & Nuclear: Problem or Solution? (23 Nov. 2007)
- IMDB page
- Podcast video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:29) Premiere Date: 11/22/2007
- Program: e2 Episode: Coal & Nuclear: Problem or Solution?
- Renewables, biofuels, solar, wind and other energy sources may be alternatives to fossil fuel, but it is impossible to ignore the ubiquity of coal and the power capabilities of nuclear, despite their many drawbacks.
- Season 2, Episode 7 The Druk White Lotus School: Ladakh (30 Nov. 2007)
- IMDB page
- Full video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:13) Premiere Date: 01/06/2009 (?)
- Ladakh, India is one of the most remote regions on earth. Beset with religious, political and cultural strife, it is also one of the most tumultuous. Enter the Druk White Lotus School, which intends to equip Ladakhi children for living in the modern world while simultaneously embracing Buddhist traditions.
- Season 2, Episode 8 Greening the Federal Government (7 Dec. 2007)
- IMDB page
- Full video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:13) Premiere Date: 01/13/2009
- Government buildings are not historically associated with sustainability or exquisite design. But the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) Design Excellence program is changing that perception. The program commissioned Pritzker Prize-winning Architect Thom Mayne to design the San Francisco Federal Building, a structure that aims to be the prototype for tomorrow's workplace.
- Season 2, Episode 9 Bogota: Building a Sustainable City (14 Dec. 2007)
- IMDB page
- Full video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:13) Premiere Date: 03/07/2008
- Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, transformed one of the most chaotic cities in the world into a shining model of urban planning. He reformed public transport, added greenways, built mega-libraries and created the longest stretch of bike-only lanes in the world, but along the way he met tremendous opposition from the very people he was attempting to help.
- Season 2, Episode 10 Affordable Green Housing (21 Dec. 2007)
- IMDB page
- Full video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:12) Premiere Date: 03/14/2008
- New York City is known for its diversity, but that quality isn't always reflected in its public housing developments, which often ignore the social and cultural characteristics of the communities who live in them. This episode follows developer Jonathan Rose through Irvington, Harlem and the Bronx - communities where Rose is putting sustainability within reach of public housing residents.
- Season 2, Episode 11 Adaptive Reuse in the Netherlands (28 Dec. 2007)
- e2: Energy | Netflix - not watchable online on Netflix
2008 e2 season 3 episodes[edit | edit source]
- e2: Transport | Netflix - not watchable online on Netflix
- Season 3, Episode 1 A Garden in Cairo (2 Sep. 2008)
- IMDB page
- Full video on Vimeo
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:28) Premiere Date: 07/11/2009
- Cairo is one of the most densely populated in the world, with only one footprint of green space per person prior to 2005. His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, saw the need to relieve this congestion. The result is Al-Azhar Park: a 500-year-old dump-turned-"urban lung" that provides much-needed green space and a source of civic pride.
- Season 3, Episode 2 The Village Architect (9 Sep. 2008)
- Season 3, Episode 3 Melbourne Reborn (16 Sep. 2008)
- Season 3, Episode 4 The Art and Science of Renzo Piano (23 Sep. 2008)
- Season 3, Episode 5 New Orleans: The Water Line (30 Sep. 2008)
- Season 3, Episode 6 Super Use (7 Oct. 2008)
2009 e2 season 4 episodes[edit | edit source]
- Season 4, Episode 1 London: The Price of Traffic (25 Nov. 2008)
- IMDB page
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:27) Premiere Date: 11/25/2008
- London's congestion charge challenges the 20th-century notion that cities should be designed around cars and asks drivers to pay for access to public roads and parking spaces. Thanks to Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, this plan is the core of a sweeping push to transform London into a transit-efficient and pedestrian-friendly mega-city in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
- Season 4, Episode 2 Paris: Velo Liberte (2 Dec. 2008)
- IMDB page
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:28) Premiere Date: 12/01/2008
- Paris' ambitious public-private "Velib" bike initiative encourages residents to forgo cars for bikes and public transportation.
- Season 4, Episode 3 Food Miles (9 Dec. 2008)
- IMDB page
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:28) Premiere Date: 12/08/2008
- In the 21st-century global food economy, by the time it's been grown, processed and distributed, most food has traveled an average of 1,500 miles before reaching the plate. AS renowned author Michael Pollan elaborates, the effects of this fossil fuel-driven system are detrimental to the environment, to health and to social well-being.
- Season 4, Episode 4 Seoul: The Stream of Consciousness (16 Dec. 2008)
- Season 4, Episode 5 Portland: A Sense of Place (6 Jan. 2009)
- Season 4, Episode 6 Aviation: The Limited Sky (13 Jan. 2009)
- Season 4 (?), Episode {?): Architecture 2030
- Not listed on IMDB
- http://www.pbs.org/e2/episodes/212_architecture_2030_trailer.html - this page says: design | architecture 2030 | season II | episode 6, which does not agree with IMDB's episode list.
- Full video on PBS Duration: (25:13) Premiere Date: 02/10/2009
- Buildings are responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Can a collaborative effort - government leaders, architects, regulatory agencies and building suppliers - avert a climate crisis through policy change and education? Architect-turned-activist Ed Mazria may have the answer.
Miscellaneous episode[edit | edit source]
09:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC): I don't see this one viewable online anywhere.
- e2: Intervention Architecture DVD - page for ordering the DVD from PBS
- e2: Intervention Architecture tracks the five projects that have won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which embrace the ethical and philosophical criteria that the awards represent. Within one hour, e2 traverses the globe visiting the diverse projects that are as far-ranging as a wetlands restoration project in Saudi Arabia, the revitalization of a French Colonial heritage site in Tunisia, all the way to a Bridge School in Xiashi, China, that reconnected a community and became the cultural center of the village. At the end of our travels we understand that we are all one world, facing the same challenges in a shared future with the belief that the future can be made better.
Global Warming: Rising Storm[edit | edit source]
- on Netflix - not viewable online
- maybe the DVD order page on PBS for this video
Global Warming: The Signs and Science - 2005[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Global Warming: The Signs and Science (2005) - TV Movie
- wikipedia:Global Warming: The Signs and The Science
- Global Warming: The Signs and The Science is a 2005 documentary film on global warming made by ETV, the PBS affiliate in South Carolina, and hosted by Alanis Morissette.
- PBS Global Warming The Signs and the Science - 55:28 full episode
- At 22:18 Alanis says "Recent studies warn that all of New York's subways and tunnels could flood." Which of course is what then happened during wikipedia:Hurricane Sandy, seven years later, and is likely to happen again with increasing frequency in the future, unless New York City invests massively in flood protection. Or if (as is unfortunately less likely to happen) humans in general and the richest billion humans in particular decide to get serious about eliminating their individual contributions to man-made climate forcing.
- Netflix page - not viewable online at Netflix
Scientific American Frontiers[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Scientific American Frontiers was a show on PBS about science that aired from 1990 to 2006.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20151016074052/http://www.pbs.org:80/saf/
Hot Planet – Cold Comfort[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 15, Episode 5 - Hot Planet: Cold Comfort (16 Feb. 2005)
- Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers Full Episode (Hot Planet – Cold Comfort)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (25:29) - Premiere Date: 05/12/2006
Hydrogen Hopes[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 15, Episode 6 - Hydrogen Hopes (23 Feb. 2005)
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (25:35) - Premiere Date: 05/19/2006
American Experience[edit | edit source]
A program about events and people in United States history. Some episodes relate to sustainability and the environment.
- IMDB series page - The American Experience (1987– )
- wikipedia:American Experience
- wikipedia:List of American Experience episodes
New York Underground - 1997[edit | edit source]
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/nyunderground/
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 9, Episode 7 - New York Underground (17 Feb. 1997)
- Preview on PBS - American Experience - New York Underground Preview - Duration: (0:34) - Premiere Date: 02/16/1997 - Episode Expires: Never
- Google American Experience New York Underground - I cannot find this episode online.
The Hurricane of '38 - 2001[edit | edit source]
- American Experience The Hurricane of 1938 pt1 - 14:54
- American Experience The Hurricane of 1938 pt2 - 14:56
- American Experience The Hurricane of 1938 pt3 - 14:52
- American Experience The Hurricane of 1938 pt4 - 7:59
- Full episode on PBS - American Experience - Episode: The Hurricane of '38 - Duration: (52:42) - Premiere Date: 05/17/2010 - Episode Expires: Thu 16 May 2013
- IMDB page - Season 13, Episode 5 - The Hurricane of '38 (2001)
Fatal Flood - 2001[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 13, Episode 14 - Fatal Flood (16 Apr. 2001)
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood/ - episode about the wikipedia:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States
- Preview on PBS - American Experience - Flood Film Clips - Duration: (2:39) - Premiere Date: 04/16/2001 - Episode Expires: Never
Streamliners: America's Lost Trains - 2001[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 13, Episode 16 - Streamliners: America's Lost Trains (30 Apr. 2001)
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/streamliners/
- http://web.archive.org/web/20140614213735/http://www.iptv.org:80/video/detail.cfm/19810/amex_20010205_001305_behind_scenes_with_cinematographer
Grand Central - 2008[edit | edit source]
History of America's largest and busiest train station, wikipedia:Grand Central Terminal.
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 20, Episode 4 - Grand Central (4 Feb. 2008) - TV Episode - 234 min
- http://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Central-Michael-Epstein/dp/B0012M1KY0/ref=pd_cp_mov_1
- Full episode on DailyMotion via Hulu (with commercials)
- http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/American_Experience_Grand_Central/70092234?locale=en-US
- Google site:video.pbs.org American Experience: Grand Central - full episode is not on PBS
- American Experience Grand Central Preview - Duration: (0:30) Premiere Date: 02/03/2008 Episode Expires: Never
Hoover Dam - 2009[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 11, Episode 3 - Hoover Dam (9 Nov. 2009)
- Expired full episode on PBS - Hoover Dam - Duration: (52:25) - Episode Expires: Sat 10 Nov 2012
Surviving the Dust Bowl - 2009[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page The American Experience: Season 10, Episode 13 Surviving the Dust Bowl (16 Nov. 2009) TV Episode - 234 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (52:31) - Premiere Date: 11/15/2009 - Episode Expires: Thu 15 Nov 2012
- "The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade."
- Surviving the Dust Bowl on Netflix - not viewable online
- Surviving The Dust Bowl - 50:39
- Descriptive page at PBS
- The episode briefly mentions the work of Hugh Hammond Bennett which led to what is now the Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)). This is one of the earliest examples of using a scientific approach to address a large-scale man-made environmental disaster.
- The episode focuses mostly on the human impact of the Dust Bowl, and less on the soil conservation techniques that have prevented repeats in subsequent droughts.
Earth Days - 2010[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 22, Episode 5 - Earth Days (19 Apr. 2010)
- Full episode on PBS - American Experience - Earth Days - Duration: (1:53:11) - Premiere Date: 04/19/2010 - Episode Expires: Thu 18 Apr 2013
Panama Canal - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 23, Episode 4 - Panama Canal (24 Jan. 2011)
- Full episode on PBS - American Experience - The Panama Canal - Duration: (1:22:11) - Premiere Date: 04/03/2012 - Episode Expires: Fri 24 Jan 2014
The Greely Expedition - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 23, Episode 5 - The Greely Expedition (31 Jan. 2011)
- Full episode on PBS - American Experience - The Greely Expedition - Duration: (52:11) - Premiere Date: 01/30/2011 - Episode Expires: Fri 31 Jan 2014
Grand Coulee Dam - 2012[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - The American Experience: Season 24, Episode 6 - Grand Coulee Dam (3 Apr. 2012)
- Full episode on PBS - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam - Duration: (1:22:10) - Premiere Date: 04/03/2012 - Episode Expires: Wed 01 Apr 2015
The Dust Bowl[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:The Dust Bowl (film) - The two-part miniseries recounts the impact of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. during the Great Depression. Premieres November 18 and 19, 2012, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET on PBS
- IMDB page
- Preview video Duration: (1:43) - Premiere Date: 11/18/2012 - Episode Expires: Never
- "The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.."
- Descriptive page at PBS
The PBS wikipedia:American Experience series had an episode about the dust bowl earlier:
- IMDB page The American Experience: Season 10, Episode 13 Surviving the Dust Bowl (16 Nov. 2009) TV Episode - 234 min
- Full episode on PBS - Duration: (52:31) - Premiere Date: 11/15/2009 - Episode Expires: Thu 15 Nov 2012
- "The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade."
- Surviving the Dust Bowl on Netflix - not viewable online
- Surviving The Dust Bowl - 50:39
- Descriptive page at PBS
- The episode briefly mentions the work of Hugh Hammond Bennett which led to what is now the Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)). This is one of the earliest examples of using a scientific approach to addressing a large-scale man-made environmental disaster.
- The episode focuses mostly on the human impact of the Dust Bowl, and less on the soil conservation techniques that have prevented repeats in subsequent droughts.
The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s has some parallels with recent and ongoing events in the United States:
- The Great Depression in the United States began with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and continued through the 1930s. The 2008–2012 global recession affected the US recently.
- The 1930s featured several summer heat waves and droughts that set a number of high temperature records, some of which still stand today, although many were broken in 2012. Heat waves have become more common and intense in the USA recently, which many scientists including wikipedia:James Hansen attribute at least in part to man-made climate change.
Science Channel[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Science (TV channel) - owned by Discovery; focuses on science topics as the name suggests.
Ecotech[edit | edit source]
The Science Channel has a series called Ecotech or Eco-tech. Wikipedia does not have an article on it that I can see.
Nothing by this name currently appears on the Science Channel shows page. IMDB says it was a five-part series that aired in 2007.
YouTube has a playlist with some clips from the Eco-Tech series:
How Do They Do It?[edit | edit source]
- How Do They Do It? - High Speed Rail - 12:26; segment covers the ICE trains in Germany.
- Season 4 Episode 17 - information about this episode
Powering the Future[edit | edit source]
Discovery Channel broadcast this four-part series in July 2010. The Science Channel and then Planet Green rebroadcast it.[8]
- Powering the Future - the Energy Planet at the Science Channel
- Powering the Future is a four-part television event forecasting the world of energy in the not-too-distant future. We address the Earth's energy challenge from every angle, and cut through the noise by establishing a simple target: a clean, limitless, and secure energy supply by the middle of this century. Powering the Future puts energy on the national stage with programming that builds to the inescapable logic: we must act.
- wikipedia:M. Sanjayan - host
- IMDB page - Powering the Future (2010– ) TV Series Documentary
- The video does not appear to be on Netflix
- Powering The Future part 1: The Energy Revolution HD
- Powering The Future part 2: The Energy Planet HD
- Powering The Future part 3: Striking a Balance HD
- Powering The Future part 4: Leading the Charge HD
National Geographic[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Category:National Geographic Channel programs
- wikipedia:List of programs broadcast by National Geographic Channel
Megastructures[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Megastructures
- IMDB page (Wikipedia and IMDB disagree on the season and number of some episodes.)
- http://natgeotv.com/ca/megastructures/about
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwelnM0KJU4&list=PLAC35F75460B8BC5E&index=6&feature=plpp_video - playlist with several National Geographic episodes
- DocuWiki page
Channel Tunnel - 2004[edit | edit source]
This episode relates to climate change in that the wikipedia:Channel Tunnel provides the most readily zero-carbon rapid transportation link between the UK and the European mainland. Electric trains ply the tunnel, whereas the alternative transport links include ferries and airplanes that burn liquid fuels from petroleum. The electricity supply is not zero-carbon yet, but electricity can be made zero-carbon much more readily at large scale than liquid fuels can be. The major renewable energy sources such as wind and solar generally produce electricity, whereas biofuels are the only significant form of renewable liquid fuels and they have problems of scale and other environmental impacts at the moment.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 3 - Channel Tunnel (2004)
- NatGeo Megastructures - Channel Tunnel - 46:51
- National Geographic Megastructures The Channel Tunnel - 47:00 (another copy)
Itaipu Dam - 2004[edit | edit source]
While hydroelectric dams can produce many social and environmental impacts, they are nonetheless important sources of dispatchable renewable electricity which is vital for load balancing on electric grids that have large amounts of non-dispatchable wind and solar power.
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 7 - Itaipu Dam (2004)
- Megastructures-The world's most powerful dam Itaipu Dam(National Geographic Channel) - 46:29
North Sea Wall - 2005[edit | edit source]
The massive engineering works built by the Dutch to hold back the sea illustrate what many coastal cities will need as sea levels rise due to man-made climate forcing.
- IMDB page - Season 2, Episode 10 - North Sea Wall
- National Geographic Megastructures North Sea Wall
Berlin Train Terminal - 2005[edit | edit source]
Rail travel is the most straightforward type of motorized travel to make zero carbon, since trains can run on electricity. Germany's train system is among the world's best.
- Season 2, episode 30: Berlin Train Terminal (Berlin's Grand Central) wikipedia:Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- IMDB page - Season 2, Episode 21 - Berlin's Grand Central (2005)
- national.geographic.berlin.train.terminal01
Oil Sands Mine - 2005[edit | edit source]
Extracting and burning oil sands will greatly contribute to climate change and possibly doom humanity's prospects for long-term thriving on planet Earth. Thus it is interesting to see the inner workings of the industry that will help doom us.
- IMDB page - Ultimate Oil Sands Mine (2005)
- Megastructures Ultimate Oil Sands Mine - 47:58
Inside Grand Central - 2005[edit | edit source]
Garbage Mountain - 2006[edit | edit source]
Describes the wikipedia:Puente Hills Landfill, including trash separation, recycling, green waste composting, and landfill gas recovery.
- IMDB page - Season 3, Episode 6 - Garbage Mountain (18 Jun. 2006) - TV Episode - Documentary
- Man-Made Garbage Mountain on DailyMotion - 47:14
- Garbage Mountain - National Geographic Megastructures - 47:14
Hoover Dam - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 3, Episode 4 - Hoover Dam (2006)
- National Geographic Megastructures Hoover Dam Reinvented - 46:57
Panama Canal Unlocked - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 3, Episode 13 - Panama Canal Unlocked (2006)
- National Geographic Megastructures Panama Canal
America's Biggest Dig - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - America's Biggest Dig (30 Jan. 2006)
- Full episode on Dailymotion - 47:13
Science of Concrete - 2006[edit | edit source]
Cement production accounts for some 5% of global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. It is also one of the most important building materials.
- IMDB page - Season 3, Episode 15 - Science of Concrete (2006)
- NG2006MegastructuresConcrete
South Pole Station - 2007[edit | edit source]
Climate change is occurring faster at the poles than anywhere else on Earth. Polar exploration is therefore a vital part of understanding what humans are doing to planet Earth.
- IMDB page - Season 4, Episode 2 - The South Pole Project (6 Nov. 2007)
- IMDB page - South Pole Station (9 Jan. 2008) (IMDB may have conflicting entries, or there may really be two different episodes about the South Pole.)
- National Geographic Megastructures South Pole Station - 43:00
Man Made Sun - 2008[edit | edit source]
Solar energy.
- IMDB page - Man Made Sun (2008)
- National Geographic Megastructures Man made Sun - 47:29
World's Biggest Shredder - 2008[edit | edit source]
Metal recycling.
- IMDB page - World's Biggest Shredder (2008)
- Full episode on Dailymotion - 47:29
Building Green Beijing - 2008[edit | edit source]
Greenwashing the Olympic Games.
- IMDB page
- Green Beijing 1. Architecture in China right Before Olympics - 10:01
- Green Beijing 2. Architecture in China right Before Olympics - 9:44
- Green Beijing 3. Architecture in China right Before Olympics - 9:50
- Green Beijing 4. Architecture in China right Before Olympics - 10:01
- Green Beijing 5. Architecture in China right Before Olympics - 7:37
Icelandic Super Dam[edit | edit source]
Extreme Railway[edit | edit source]
Future Trains[edit | edit source]
- S04, E71: Future Trains, Maglev train in Germany - see wikipedia:Transrapid
- IMDB page - MegaStructures - Future Trains - TV Episode - Documentary
- national.geographic.Future.trains1.flv
- national.geographic.Future.trains2.flv
- national.geographic.Future.trains3.flv
- national.geographic.Future.trains4.flv
- national.geographic.Future.trains5.flv
Train Wreck - 2009[edit | edit source]
An episode about recycling old locomotives.
Electric Ocean - 2009[edit | edit source]
Renewable energy from the oceans.
- IMDB page - Electric Ocean (8 Apr. 2009)
- National Geographic Megastructures Electric Ocean - 46:04
UK Super Train - 2010[edit | edit source]
Shows the construction of the wikipedia:High Speed 1 rail line in the UK.
- IMDB page - UK Super Train (8 Jan. 2010) - TV Episode - Documentary
- Megastructures UK Super Train - 46:59
Built From Disaster - Trains[edit | edit source]
- 2009: Megastructures: Built From Disaster - Trains
Mega Breakdown[edit | edit source]
This may be a different National Geographic series. I can't easily tell.
- http://natgeotv.com/in/mega-breakdown-2/about
- Megastructures Mega Breakdown NY Scrap Yard on DailyMotion - a copy in the Russian (I think) language. The video is about the Gershow Recycling 40 acre scrap yard in Long Island, NY.
MegaStructures holding pen[edit | edit source]
- MegaStructures - Boeing 747 Breakdown - HD - P1 of 2 - 25:20
- MegaStructures - Boeing 747 Breakdown - HD - P2 of 2 - 22:00
Seconds From Disaster[edit | edit source]
Planet Mechanics[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Planet Mechanics - a short-lived TV series about some people trying to be quasi-green. By flying around the world on jets to try various projects.
- National Geographic - Planet Mechanics - Water Wars/Lake Dilemma Full.
- National Geographic Planet Mechanics Electric Water Taxi
- http://www.youtube.com/user/MrHassam1234#g/u - this user uploaded all of them it seems.
Aftermath (TV series)[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Aftermath (TV series) - a series of episodes that looks at what would happen if various conditions on Earth suddenly changed. These episodes relate to environmental issues to varying degrees.
World Without Oil[edit | edit source]
Aftermath: Population Zero[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Aftermath: Population Zero - a show by National Geographic that illustrates the human impact on the biosphere, by showing how wild plants and animals would gradually reclaim the world if humans were to disappear suddenly as if by magic. See also: wikipedia:Life After People, a similar documentary by History Channel.
Aftermath: When the Earth Stops Spinning[edit | edit source]
Red Giant[edit | edit source]
- Aftermath:Red Giant - only a short trailer.
Population Overload[edit | edit source]
- Aftermath: Population Overload - trailer.
Strange Days on Planet Earth[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Strange Days on Planet Earth
- IMDB page - Strange Days on Planet Earth (2005– ) - TV Series Documentary - 240 min
- National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 1 of 4 - Invaders
- National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth -Part 2of4- One Degree Factor
- National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 3 of 4 - Predator
- National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth -Part 4 of 4- Troubled Waters
- Watch Strange Days on Planet Earth Online | Netflix - 2008 episodes
I don't see this episode online anywhere:
- IMDB page - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Your Ocean on Acid - TV Episode
- Strange Days On Planet Earth: Your Ocean on Acid - other than this 4:44 short clip
Collapse of Earth?[edit | edit source]
Year of the Storm[edit | edit source]
The Human Footprint[edit | edit source]
- full video on National Geographic site
- Video on SnagFilms
- on Netflix - not viewable online
- National Geographic: Human Footprint (Video 2008) - IMDB information page
- on Amazon.com
Six Degrees Could Change the World (2008)[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Six Degrees Could Change the World (2008) - TV Documentary - 96 min
- Watch National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World Online | Netflix
- Six Degrees Could Change the World - on the National Geographic site - 90:26
- Six Degrees Could Change The World 1/4 - 15:00
- Six Degrees Could Change The World 2/4 - 15:01
- Six Degrees Could Change The World 3/4 - 15:02
- Six Degrees Could Change The World 4/4 - 6:58
- 6 DEGREES - Could change the World - full doc - 1:35:43 (but the sound level is very low)
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections
- IMDB page - Engineering Connections (2008– ) TV Series Documentary
- Series page on National Geographic site
Bullet Train (2011)[edit | edit source]
Richard Hammond explains how high-speed trains work. Episode focuses on Japan's Shinkansen.
- Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections Bullet Train on wikipedia:Tudou (from season 3, 2011)
- Trailer - 1:31 - on the National Geographic site
- Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - (S03E06) Bullet Train - 48:49
Big, Bigger, Biggest[edit | edit source]
A series that covers examples of extremes in engineering and architecture. While most of the series shows little or no awareness of sustainability issues, a few episodes cover technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- wikipedia:Big, Bigger, Biggest
- Series page on the National Geographic site
- IMDB page - Big, Bigger, Biggest (2008– ) TV Series Documentary
Dam (2009)[edit | edit source]
The world's largest hydroelectric power station, China's wikipedia:Three Gorges Dam.
- IMDB page - Big, Bigger, Biggest: Season 2, Episode 8 - Dam (15 Sep. 2009)
- BIG BIGGER BIGGEST: dam
Canal (2011)[edit | edit source]
The Panama Canal expansion.
- IMDB page - Big, Bigger, Biggest: Season 3, Episode 1 - Canal (5 Jul. 2011)
- BIG BIGGER BIGGEST: water canals - 44:02
Underground: Tunnel Men - London's Underground (2011)[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Big, Bigger, Biggest: Season 3, Episode 3 - Underground: Tunnel Men - London's Underground (12 Jul. 2011)
- BIG BIGGER BIGGEST: Metro - 43:02
Train: World's Fastest Train (2011)[edit | edit source]
The fastest wheeled train, the SNCF AGV
- IMDB page - Big, Bigger, Biggest: Season 3, Episode 6 - Train: World's Fastest Train (2 Aug. 2011)
- Big.Bigger.Biggest.S03E06.Fastest.Train.Ever on Dailymotion
- Big Bigger Biggest Fastest Train Ever
Superstorm New York: What Really Happened (2012)[edit | edit source]
- Superstorm New York: What Really Happened - Sunday 18 November 2012 at 10:00PM National Geographic Channel
- Media Update page about the program[9]
Seconds from Disaster[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Seconds from Disaster
- IMDB page - Seconds from Disaster (2004– ) TV Series Documentary - 60 min
- Series page at National Geographic
- Seconds From Disaster - S01E05 - Derailment At Eschede
Crash Science[edit | edit source]
Crash Science: Trains[edit | edit source]
- National Geographic Crash Science Trains
- crash science : train(1/5) - narration is in French
- crash science : train(2/5)
- crash science : train(3/5)
- crash science : train (4/5)
- crash science : train(5/5)
Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie[edit | edit source]
Trains: The Steam Pioneers - 2010[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 1, Episode 8 - Trains: The Steam Pioneers (24 Jun. 2010)
- Britains Greatest Machines (Trains) - 47:29
Cable News Network[edit | edit source]
Planet in Peril - 2007[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Planet in Peril - article needs more sources.
- IMDB page - Planet in Peril (2007) - TV Documentary
- on Netflix - not viewable online
The Cold War[edit | edit source]
- IMDB series page - Cold War (1998– ) - TV Mini-Series Documentary - 1120 min
Soldiers of God - 1998[edit | edit source]
CNN made a documentary about the Soviet-Afghan war.
- IMDB page - Cold War: Season 1, Episode 20 - Soldiers of God (1998)
- Cold War Documentary in HQ- Episode 20: Soldiers of God (1975--1988) - 46:24 (full episode)
Another copy, in five parts:
- SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 1/5 - 9:29
- SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 2/5 - 9:40
- SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 3/5 - 9:34
- SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 4/5 - 6:54
- SOVIET AFGHAN WAR DOCUMENTARY Part 5/5 - 7:49
British Broadcasting Corporation[edit | edit source]
Future Earth - 2008[edit | edit source]
- I cannot find an entry for this program on IMDB.
- BBC Future Earth CH 01/02 part 1/6 (eng) - 15:00. It's narrated by Iain Stewart, but he never actually appears. Much of the graphics, content, and narration overlap with #Hot Planet - 2009 which the BBC released a year later ahead of the wikipedia:2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen.
- Playlist of the segments of the above video
People, places, and things featured:
- Part 1 (the Part divisions are from the person who uploaded the video in multiple parts to YouTube; they are not in the original video):
- At 2:00 in the first segment, a segment begins showing one of the wikipedia:British Antarctic Survey's wikipedia:de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters landing on an ice field. Dr. Robert Mulvaney of the wikipedia:British Antarctic Survey describes his work analyzing ice cores from Antarctica. I'm pretty sure I've seen him in other videos.
- 5:00 - wikipedia:Rajendra Pachauri
- 5:30 - sequence featuring the wikipedia:Ocean sunfish, with Tierney Thys of the wikipedia:Monterey Bay Aquarium.
- Related video of her TED talk: Tierney Thys: Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean - 18:39
- 8:39 - wikipedia:James Hansen
- 8:55 - wikipedia:Mountain pine beetle outbreak in North American Rocky Mountain pine forests.
- 11:29 - wikipedia:Pika - a mammal under threat. The program refers to the "Pika" in North America, which may mean the wikipedia:American pika; see wikipedia:American pika#Conservation and decline.
- 11:40 - wikipedia:Wildebeest migration threatened by drought.
- 11:50 - Harlequin frog - 70 species already extinct from a fungus whose spread the program links to climate change.
- 12:05 - wikipedia:Ocean acidification threat to wikipedia:Coral reefs.
- 12:25 - the program shifts to the Arctic.
- 13:15 - wikipedia:Arctic shrinkage illustrated with the see ice decline and the then-record minimum Arctic summer sea ice extent in September, 2007.
- 13:20 - wikipedia:Northwest Passage completely open to large vessels for the first time in recorded history.
- 13:46 - wikipedia:John Holdren, then the director of wikipedia:Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, discussing the impending albedo flip in the Arctic Ocean.
- 13:59 - polar bear tagging with wikipedia:Steven Armstrup, United States Geological Survey biologist. Continues to Part 2.
- Part 2:
- 3:55 - James Hansen returns to further discuss the Arctic Ocean albedo flip.
- 4:26 - Impact of climate change on the wikipedia:Inupiat community of 300 people on wikipedia:Barter Island, Alaska.
- 5:50 - Shows some scenes of life in industrialized countries, to illustrate sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
- 7:12 - Great Plains Synfuels Plant in wikipedia:Beulah, North Dakota, equipped with wikipedia:Carbon capture and storage (CCS).
- 9:08 - wikipedia:Carbon County, Utah sandstone formations may be a disposal site for carbon dioxide from CCS. Brian McPherson, geophysicist at the University of Utah, heads up a US$88,000,000 government research project aimed at storing carbon dioxide by injecting it into sandstone.
- 11:43 - James Hansen returns to comment on the necessity of developing CCS since so many nations burn coal to generate electricity.
- 12:40 - sea level rise.
- 13:40 - extreme weather. Mentions wikipedia:Hurricane Gustav, wikipedia:Hurricane Ike, and wikipedia:Cyclone Nargis, the last of which killed an estimated 100,000 people in Burma. James Hansen returns to explain that latent heat provides the fuel for storms.
- 14:29 - discusses storm risk in New York City. The program is oddly prescient of the type of flooding that occurred shortly later, during wikipedia:Hurricane Irene in 2011 and especially wikipedia:Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Mentions that the New York City area has been hit by hurricanes frequently in recorded history and prehistory (wikipedia:List of New York hurricanes). Continues to Part 3.
- Part 3:
- 00:34 - wikipedia:1938 New England hurricane
- 1:00 - Paleotempestologist Jeffrey Donnelly[10] studies ancient storms in the New York area by analyzing wikipedia:overwash deposits in sediment core samples.
- 3:30 - global warming turns the 100 year flooding event in New York City into a 10 year event. wikipedia:Cynthia E. Rosenzweig discusses the increasing risk of the kind of flooding that came true just three years after the filming.
- 4:50 - describes the effects of a storm surge even larger than the one that later occurred from Hurricane Sandy.
- 5:17 - Douglas Hill of the Stony Brook Storm Surge research group (at the wikipedia:State University of New York at Stony Brook) describes surge barriers for New York City that would cost US$5 billion. The barriers could only shield about half of the New York metropolitan area.
- 6:50 - mentions increasing storm risk in other coastal areas of the US that would be harder to protect, including wikipedia:Miami, Florida and the wikipedia:Florida Everglades.
- 7:20 - Impact of sea level rise on wikipedia:Tuvalu.
- 7:30 - wikipedia:Alexandria, Egypt. Saltwater intrusion in the wikipedia:Nile Delta.
- 7:48 - wikipedia:Bangladesh could have 30 million people displaced by sea level rise this century.
- 8:47 - John Holdren returns to describe the social breakdown that occurred during wikipedia:Hurricane Katrina despite the US being the world's richest and most powerful nation.
- 9:16 - mentions an even more damaging form of extreme weather: drought.
- 9:56 - drought in California. June 2008 statewide drought (wikipedia:Drought in the United States#2000s).
- 10:35 - retreat of the wikipedia:Dana Glacier. Climatologist Anthony Westerling of the wikipedia:University of California, Merced discusses the role of snowpack in the wikipedia:Sierra Nevada for providing California's water.
- 12:00 - decline of Himalayan glaciers could threaten the summer water supplies of hundreds of millions of people. Rajendra Pachauri returns to comment.
- 12:55 - fire risk due to drought in forested regions.
- 13:09 - wikipedia:Summer 2008 California wildfires. Anthony Westerling says climate change has increased the length of the California fire season. Shorter winters mean less snowpack builds up in winter and melts earlier in spring.
- 14:30 - predicts increase fire risk elsewhere: Australia, Russia, South Africa, and parts of Europe. After the video's publication date, several such fires have occurred: wikipedia:2010 Russian wildfires, Australia's wikipedia:Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, and wikipedia:2009 Table Mountain Fire in South Africa. In light of the predictions in this video coming true so quickly, perhaps the name should rather be "Near Future Earth".
- 14:40 - in a 2°C warmer world, the Sahara will effectively be moving northward. Peter Cox, Met Office Chair in Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter, talks about Hadley cells. A Hadley cell creates the Sahara Desert, and in a warming world climate scientists expect that Hadley to get larger, thus extending the dry region farther north to the Mediterranean parts of Europe.
- Part 4:
- 00:50 - Rajendra Pachauri returns to discuss water stress in several parts of the world when temperature rises by 2°C.
- 1:20 - John Holdren returns to talk about the importance of wikipedia:Efficient energy use.
- 1:50 - wikipedia:Masdar City in the wikipedia:United Arab Emirates aims to be a showcase of low-carbon living.
- 2:50 - wikipedia:Shanghai Maglev Train.
- 5:35 - wikipedia:Geothermal power in Iceland.
- 5:50 - wikipedia:Blue Lagoon (geothermal spa) fed by effluent from the wikipedia:Svartsengi Power Station.
- 6:50 - Iceland remains a heavy burner of fossil fuels for transport fuel.
- 7:10 - Jon Björn Skúlason of wikipedia:Icelandic New Energy drives a prototype hydrogen-powered car. He also appears in the PBS program #Hydrogen Hopes.
- 9:50 - Iceland plans to be the first nation on Earth completely free of fossil fuels by 2050. (See wikipedia:Renewable energy in Iceland#Hydrogen.)
- 10:00 - wikipedia:Andasol Solar Power Station in Spain.
- 11:50 - wikipedia:London Array offshore wind farm.
- 12:10 - wikipedia:Pelamis Wave Energy Converter off the coast of Portugal.
- 12:30 - Some town in India (I can't understand Iain Stewart's pronunciation) uses biogas from sewage to generate electricity to power streetlights.
- 12:38 - wikipedia:Three Gorges Dam in China.
- 12:50 - wikipedia:Nuclear power in France and elsewhere provides low-carbon if controversial source of electricity.
- 13:20 - Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. See wikipedia:Livestock's Long Shadow, wikipedia:Environmental impact of meat production. Shows a wikipedia:Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, mentions the need for transporting meat in wikipedia:Refrigerator trucks as part of a complex wikipedia:Cold chain.
- 14:00 - Methane from wikipedia:Enteric fermentation (that article needs work). Christopher Reynolds of wikipedia:University of Reading studies the emissions from cattle.
- Part 5:
- 0:00 - continuing with Professor Reynolds, who describes the search for a so-called green antibiotic that would suppress the enteric microbes that produce methane in cattle, without otherwise harming the cattle or their meat and dairy products.
- 0:40 - discusses other methods to reduce livestock emissions: give up eating meat, or grow in vitro meat without cattle. Oron Catts of wikipedia:University of Western Australia at wikipedia:Perth shows some of the meat his lab has grown.
- 3:00 - wikipedia:Heston Blumenthal, one of the UK's greatest chefs, sizes up some in vitro meat.
- 4:20 - wikipedia:Carbon dioxide removal#Artificial trees for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestering it underground. wikipedia:Klaus Lackner and Allen Wright of Global Research Technologies (now Kilimanjaro Energy) at wikipedia:Biosphere 2 demonstrate their system using ion exchange resin and humidity control to first capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then release it to a container at higher concentration.
- 13:10 - warns about a 3°C temperature rise above the pre-industrial average if no action is taken to slash emissions, and the risk of climate tipping points triggered by such a rise. James Hansen returns to discuss the consequences.
- 14:00 - mentions (by the date of 55 million years ago, but not by name) the wikipedia:Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the last time the climate warmed by as much as humans are on pace to warm it in the near future.
- 14:40 - Peter Cox returns to discuss wikipedia:Abrupt climate change. Continues to Part 6.
- Part 6:
- 00:30 - Peter Cox describes the mechamism whereby a 3°C increase in temperature could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest and replace it with savannah. See wikipedia:Amazon rainforest#Conservation and climate change.
- 2:00 - effect of 3°C temperature rise on wikipedia:permafrost. Peter Cox describes wikipedia:Arctic methane release, a potentially devastating wikipedia:Climate change feedback.
- 3:50 - ice sheets.
- 4:28 - James Hansen returns to describe a wet process for ice sheet destruction. Mentions that the natural wikipedia:climate forcings that drove past episodes of ice sheet destruction, which raised sea levels at rates of several meters per century, were much smaller than the human-caused climate forcing today.
- 5:45 - mentions the albedo effect, how the melting of land ice exposes more dark land, which absorbs more energy from the Sun, thus contributing to more heating.
- 6:20 - compensating for the loss of albedo from ice sheets by painting cities white. wikipedia:Reflective surfaces (geoengineering).
- 6:50 - wikipedia:Urban heat island
- 7:30 - genetically modifying crops and grasses to be lighter in color, to increase the albedo of farm fields and pastures. wikipedia:Solar radiation management#High-albedo crop varieties
- 8:14 - other solar radiation management methods (referred to less specifically in the program as wikipedia:Geoengineering, a more general term that also includes wikipedia:Carbon dioxide removal technologies such as the artificial trees mentioned earlier in the program), such as wikipedia:Space sunshade. John Holdren returns to discuss the tradeoffs.
- 8:40 - wikipedia:Solar radiation management#Stratospheric aerosols. Mentions the temporary cooling effect of the wikipedia:Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991.
- 9:40 - wikipedia:Brian Hoskins of the wikipedia:Imperial College of London describes firing sulfates into the stratosphere with artillery shells.
- 10:25 - cloud reflectivity enhancement with robotic, wind-powered wikipedia:rotor ships called Flettner vessels.
- 11:40 - James Hansen, John Holdren, Rajendra Pachauri return to summarize the immediate need for drastic actions to avoid undesirable climate change and give the obligatory message of hope. Iain Stewart voices over the claim that to prevent more than 2°C of warming, global man-made greenhouse gas emissions will have to peak by 2015. As anyone who has followed international climate change negotiations since the program's date knows well, there is nothing to indicate humans will peak their emissions so soon. wikipedia:Climate change scenario and wikipedia:Climate change mitigation scenarios.
- 12:40 - Iain Stewart's narration ends in a way that is typical for climate change documentaries, by focusing on things the average viewer is unlikely to have detectable influence over: "So it seems that the time to act is now. We have the power and the knowledge, so surely it's our responsibility to protect our planet for future generations." Unfortunately the documentary says very little about whether and how the average viewer can make that more likely. There was a scene earlier in the program showing an ordinary person replacing an incandescent light bulb with a wikipedia:compact fluorescent lamp, but that's about it. The program does not mention personal carbon footprints, nor how the ordinary individual's behavior and consumption patterns would have to change under an effective climate change mitigation strategy.
Hot Planet - 2009[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Hot Planet (2009) - TV Documentary
- Hot Planet? - BBC Documentary (HD)
- Professors Iain Stewart and Professor Kathy Sykes take a timely look at global warming ahead of the Copenhagen summit, exploring the world's leading climate scientists' vision of the planet's future.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jf6md
BBC Two[edit | edit source]
The following list from the BBC Two site gives the titles of programs I can then use as search keywords on YouTube, to find uploaded copies to watch.
Horizon[edit | edit source]
Horizon is a long-running and current documentary program of the BBC covering science and philosophy.
- IMDB series page
- wikipedia:Horizon (BBC TV series)
- Google site:youtube.com bbc horizon - finds a number of episodes
The Lost World of Lake Vostok - 2000[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Horizon: Season 37, Episode 3 - The Lost World of Lake Vostok (26 Oct. 2000) - TV Episode - 50 min
- THE LOST WORLD OF LAKE VOSTOK - 49:02
Snowball Earth - 2001[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 37, Episode 17 - Snowball Earth (22 Feb. 2001) - TV Episode - 50 min
- BBC Horizon Snowball Earth (2001)
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? - 2009[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 46, Episode 7 - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (9 Dec. 2009) TV Episode - 50 min
- How many people can live on planet earth? featuring David Attenborough
Death of the Oceans - 2010[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 47, Episode 2 - The Death of the Oceans? (4 Oct. 2010) TV Episode - 50 min
- The Death of the Oceans - October 4, 2010
Predators in your Back Yard - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 47, Episode 15 - Predators in Your Backyard (8 Mar. 2011) - TV Episode - 50 min
- Predators in your back yard - March 8, 2011
Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe? - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 48, Episode 6 - Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe? (14 Sep. 2011) TV Episode - 50 min
- Is Nuclear Power Safe?
Global Weirding - 2012[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Season 48, Episode 12 - Global Weirding (27 Mar. 2012) - TV Episode - 50 min
- Global Weirding - Episode 12 of 15, 2011-2012 - Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme.
- BBC Horizon - Global Weirding (2012) (dead link)
- The video is OK, but the presentation seems to be somewhat tentative, as if the climate change deniers have made the presenters more reluctant to come out and say humans are changing the climate.
Japan Earthquake - 2011[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special (27 Mar. 2011) - TV Episode - 50 min
- Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special with Iain Stewart
Earth: The Climate Wars[edit | edit source]
Earth: The Power of the Planet[edit | edit source]
More with Iain Stewart.
How Earth Made Us[edit | edit source]
More awesomeness with Iain Stewart.
- How Earth Made Us - Episodes
- How Earth Made Us -2/5- Deep Earth - the YouTube video title has the wrong part number
- How Earth Made Us -1/5- Water - the YouTube video title has the wrong part number
- How Earth Made Us -3/5- Wind
- How Earth Made Us -4/5- Fire
- How Earth Made Us -5/5- Human Planet
How to Grow a Planet[edit | edit source]
More geology with Iain Stewart.
Parts two and three do not appear to be on YouTube.
- YouTube: BBC How To Grow A Planet - The Power of Flowers
- YouTube: BBC How To Grow A Planet - The Challenger
Men of Rock[edit | edit source]
Another Iain Stewart show. As of 04:04, 23 April 2012 (UTC) none of the three episodes are on YouTube in full, only some short clips.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wkc1b/episodes/guide
- How Mountains Are Made - Men of Rock Preview - BBC Two - interesting sandbox illustration of tectonic folding.
- How an Ice Age is born - Men of Rock Preview - BBC Two
- Cannonball Roulette- Men of Rock - BBC Two
Surviving Progress[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:A Short History of Progress#Film - Wikipedia article about the book, which is similar to Jared Diamond's wikipedia:Collapse, with a section on the film adaptation by Martin Scorsese
- BBC page - unfortunately, BBC online videos do not play outside the UK
- Surviving Progress Documentary Trailer Martin Scorsese
- SURVIVING PROGRESS reviewed by Cole Smithey
Climate Chaos series - 2006[edit | edit source]
In 2006, the BBC created several programs about climate change, grouping them into its Climate Chaos series.[11] The BBC no longer seems to have its main page about this series online, but someone seems to have kept a copy.[12] Most of the programs in this series are probably not viewable online now.
- Google site:bbc.co.uk "climate chaos" 2006
- Google site:guardian.co.uk "climate chaos" 2006 bbc - some coverage of the series in the Guardian
Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey (2006) TV Documentary
- BBC page that mentions the wikipedia:Climateprediction.net project featured in the documentary
- wikipedia:Myles Allen
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 1
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 2
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 3
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 4
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 5
- Meltdown A Global Warming Journey Part 6
- YouTube playlist
08:22, 31 October 2012 (UTC): this video does not appear to be online at Netflix.
The documentary mentions:
- wikipedia:BBC Climate Change Experiment (see wikipedia:Climateprediction.net, wikipedia:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
- That the Larsen B ice shelf existed for at least 10,000 years before breaking up, as evidenced by sediment core samples that scientists were able to extract after the ocean opened up where the ice shelf had been.
Are We Changing Planet Earth? - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Are We Changing Planet Earth? (2006) TV Documentary - 60 min
- wikipedia:Are We Changing Planet Earth?
- Are We Changing Planet Earth? and Can We Save Planet Earth? are two programmes that form a documentary about wikipedia:global warming, presented by wikipedia:David Attenborough. They were first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 24 May and 1 June 2006 respectively.
- Part of a themed season by the wikipedia:BBC entitled "Climate Chaos", the programmes were produced in conjunction with the wikipedia:Discovery Channel and the wikipedia:Open University.
- The Truth About Global Warming (VARIOUS SEGMENTS) - ten minutes' worth
- Are We Changing Planet Earth? - full version
- DocuWiki page
Can We Save Planet Earth? - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Can We Save Planet Earth? (2006) TV Documentary - 60 min
- Can We Save Planet Earth?
- Can We Save Planet Earth (VARIOUS SEGMENTS) - ten minutes' worth
- Longer version on Google video but lower resolution
Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - 2006[edit | edit source]
- DocuWiki descriptive page
- BBC descriptive page - topics covered in the program:
- wikipedia:Thames Barrier
- wikipedia:2003 European heat wave
- wikipedia:Shanghai, on the wikipedia:Yangtze River Delta, is at risk from sea level rise, with an average elevation of just 4 m (13 ft)
- wikipedia:Mumbai, with a growing population, subject to increasingly intense rainstorms
- wikipedia:Tuvalu, at risk from sea level rise and saltwater intrusion
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 1
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 2
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 3
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 4
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 5
- BBC - Five Disasters Waiting To Happen - Part 6
Climate Chaos: Bush's Climate of Fear - 2006[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page - Climate Chaos: Bush's Climate of Fear (4 Jun. 2006) TV Episode - 40 min - Documentary
An episode of Panorama, this covered efforts by the Bush administration to suppress unwelcome findings of climate scientists.[13]
Panorama[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Panorama (TV series) - the longest-running investigative TV program in the world.
- IMDB series page
Keeping Britain Dry - 2007[edit | edit source]
An episode about the increasing flood risk in Britain.[14]
I cannot find this episode online. BBC's own video site is not viewable outside the UK.
Panorama holding pen[edit | edit source]
A place to throw links to Panorama episodes that show promise.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fvdw1 Comeback Coal
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1818137/ Comeback Coal (1 Dec. 2008) TV Episode - 40 min - Documentary
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ctqgh Can We Afford to Fill Up?
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1823522/ Can We Afford to Fill Up? (28 Jul. 2008) TV Episode - 40 min - Documentary
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00swp0k What's Up with the Weather?
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704894/ What's Up with the Weather? (28 Jun. 2010) TV Episode - 40 min - Documentary
- http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/07/01/206335/bbc-panorama-climate-show-whats-up-with-the-weather-flaws/ - Joe Romm critiques the BBC for getting confused by climate change deniers and serving up wikipedia:False balance
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2288140/ Taken for a Ride (23 Jan. 2012) TV Episode - 40 min - Documentary
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bd1jv Train Fares: Taken for a Ride?
Documentary films about environmental issues[edit | edit source]
These are documentary films and videos not associated with a particular broadcaster such as PBS, Discovery, BBC, etc. These include films by studios for theatrical release, and films by local TV stations or advocacy groups.
America's most polluted river[edit | edit source]
Entomophagy[edit | edit source]
I'm not sure I'm ready for this.
The 11th Hour - 2007[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:The 11th Hour - IMDB page
- http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=JxSIQoKe1Cg&ob=av1n&feature=mv_sr - available on YouTube as a pay per view movie[15]
- The 11th Hour 2007 on Netflix - not viewable online
- Full movie on Myspace - aspect ratio looks corrupted
Blue Gold: World Water Wars[edit | edit source]
I disagree with the film's premise that future wars will be fought over water "like wars are fought over oil today". There might be some regional scraps over water, but water is not a portable concentrated source of wealth. Water cannot be shipped long distances very effectively. It has to be used close to where it occurs naturally. For water to be useful it has to be very very cheap. Fighting wars over water would be too expensive. Water wars would also be un-winnable, since if you wanted to steal someone's water you would pretty much have to obliterate them from the whole watershed. There is no international trade in water like there is in oil. Every major landmass has to be nearly 100% self-sufficient in water, so you aren't going to have the US invading Africa for water. There could be some local conflicts, of course, and these will be important to the people involved in them. But I don't see it igniting the kinds of wars we've had over oil. Instead I think it will mostly be about the rich pricing the poor out of getting any.
Flow: For Love of Water[edit | edit source]
Ocean acidification[edit | edit source]
- Acid test for corals - AIMS scientist Dr Katharina Fabricius has led two research expeditions to study natural carbon dioxide seeps in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea - the only presently known cool, carbon dioxide seep site in tropical waters containing coral reef ecosystems. The study has given scientists unprecedented insights into what coral reefs would look like if greenhouse gas emissions and resulting ocean acidification continues to increase at present rates.
The Future of Food[edit | edit source]
Shipbreakers[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Shipbreakers - explores the practice of ship breaking decommissioned vessels in Alang, India.
A Sea Change (2009)[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page
- A Sea Change - full video on Vimeo
- A Sea Change on Netflix - not viewable online
- "Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Ettinger puts a human face on the realities of global warming and ocean acidification in this eye-opening document of one man's quest to learn more about his generation's environmental legacy. Although he's an environmentalist, native Norwegian Sven Huseby is a grandfather, too. And he's increasingly concerned about the kind of world his 5-year-old grandson, Elias, will inherit."
- Facebook group
The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning[edit | edit source]
- The Antarctica Challenge A Global Warning 1080p Full HD - link does not work
- Внимание, Антарктика! Глобальное предупреждение.1080I - film in English despite Russian title
- IMDB page
- An up-to-date look at the climate change research currently being done by the scientists stationed in Antarctica.
- Facebook page
- Official site
Carbon Nation[edit | edit source]
- Watch Carbon Nation Online | Netflix
- IMDB page
- An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending climate crisis.
- full video on Hulu
- Facebook page
Chasing Ice[edit | edit source]
- Netflix page - not viewable online
- IMDB page Chasing Ice (2012) 76 min - Documentary | Biography
- 'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. Balog's hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramp up around the world, 'Chasing Ice' depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to gather evidence and deliver hope to our carbon-powered planet.
- Facebook page
21:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC): I can't find the film viewable online anywhere yet.
Waterlife[edit | edit source]
- Netflix page - not viewable online
- IMDB page Waterlife (2009) 109 min - Documentary
- A look at the natural beauty and environmental crisis surrounding the Great Lakes.
- Official site (?)
- WATERLIFE follows the epic cascade of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. From the icy cliffs of Lake Superior to the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, this feature-length documentary tells the story of the last huge supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth.
- The source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping water levels and profound apathy. Some scientists believe the lakes are on the verge of ecological collapse.
- Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, WATERLIFE is an epic cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted.
- The film is narrated by The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie and features music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.
- Another site about the film that does not load for me.
- Waterlife - Official Trailer
- Waterlife - a five minute excerpt.
22:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC): I can't find the film viewable online anywhere yet.
Trashed[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page Trashed (2012) 100 min - Documentary
- Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
- Netflix page - not viewable online
- TRASHED trailer (2012) - Environmental documentary with Jeremy Irons
Garbage Warrior[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page Garbage Warrior (2007) - 86 min - Documentary
- Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.
- Netflix page - not viewable online
- Garbage Warrior (Full Length Documentary)
Manufactured Landscapes[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page Manufactured Landscapes (2006) - 80 min - Documentary
- Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
- Watch Manufactured Landscapes Online | Netflix
- TED talk by Edward Burtynsky
- Manufactured Landscapes (with English subtitles) - this film looks incredibly boring.
Transforming Energy[edit | edit source]
This is another documentary about renewable energy. I can't find it on Netflix nor on IMDB. It features some familiar talking heads.[16] It came out in 2006.
- Tranforming (sic) Energy Trailer - Planning for Global Warming
- Transforming Energy - 2:39 clip
- "An Electric Lodge and Throughline Production"
- Summary page on Aboutus.org
- Worldcat listing
- http://web.archive.org/web/20120716202218/http://www.electriclodge.org/environment/downloads/Transforming_Energy.pdf - a reprint of a review from some magazine.
- Transforming Energy - a page about the film on Throughline Productions.
Sprawling From Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization[edit | edit source]
- IMDB page Sprawling from Grace (2008) - 82 min - Documentary
- Watch Sprawling From Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization Online | Netflix
- Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization
The Electric Revolution[edit | edit source]
The film is by Renault S.A.S. I cannot find any information about the film on IMDB or Netflix. But Renault appears to have uploaded a copy to YouTube. The film covers the history of the electric automobile, from the early 1900s to the modern day. The last part of the film is an infomercial about the wikipedia:Renault Z.E. electric car lineup, and demonstrates the wikipedia:Better Place battery-swap technology allowing unlimited-range electric driving (provided swap stations exist on the desired route).
- The Electric Revolution on the Renault TV site
- The Electric Revolution - full video
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror - 2005[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:The Oil Factor
- IMDB page - The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2005) - 93 min - Documentary
- The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (narrated by Ed Asner)
Blood and Oil - 2008[edit | edit source]
- Google Blood and Oil Michael Klare
- Official site
- IMDB page - Blood and Oil (Video 2008) - 52 min - Documentary
- Michael T. Klare's Blood and Oil (HQ) - 52:31
See also[edit | edit source]
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Gifford, Robert (2008). "Psychology’s essential role in alleviating the impacts of climate change" (PDF). Canadian Psychology 49 (4): 273-280. doi:10.1037/a0013234. "Climate change is occurring: where is psychology? The conventional wisdom is that amelioration of the impacts of climate change is a matter for earth and ocean science, economics, technology, and policy-making. This article presents the basis for psychological science as a key part of the solution to the problem and describes the challenges to this from both within psychology and from other points of view. Minimising the personal and environmental damage caused by climate change necessarily is a multidisciplinary task, but one to which psychology not only should, but must contribute more than it has so far.".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Saner, Emine (2008-11-13). "The woman with a tiny carbon footprint". The Guardian. "Forget planes, trains or automobiles - if Joan Pick wants to go anywhere, she runs. And she eats nothing but raw food. Is her lifestyle extreme or the future we must all face up to? Emine Saner meets her"
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (2012-11-16). "Looking Back at the Storm Just Passed". New York Times. "People whose homes were damaged or destroyed in Hurricane Sandy are still picking through the debris, but at least three television outlets have already assembled documentarylike programs claiming to provide perspective on the storm."
- ↑ "PBS Presents NOVA’s “Inside the Megastorm” and Ken Burns’s THE DUST BOWL For An Extreme Weather Night of Television". PBS. 2012-11-12. "The PBS science series NOVA, produced by WGBH, announced today plans to present "Inside the Megastorm," an original one-hour documentary that takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy. The film premieres on Sunday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) and will lead-in to the new Ken Burns documentary series, THE DUST BOWL to form an Extreme Weather themed television-programming block that evening on PBS."
- ↑ "Inside the Megastorm". PBS. "Watch as hurricane Sandy unfolds, and explore what made it so much more devastating than other hurricanes. Aired November 21, 2012 on PBS"
- ↑ Not that there is anything wrong with lentils, of course. They are an excellent source of protein, can be prepared in tasty ways, and are among the least environmentally destructive foods a human can eat.
- ↑ "Is Sandy a 'Cassandra'? How Cities Should Prepare for Future Natural Disasters". 2012-10-31. "Extreme storms of recent history have made local governments take notice both of their preparedness and the likelihood that climate change is making such disastrous events more and more common. Joseph Romm of Center for American Progress and American Enterprise Institute's Kenneth Green share their perspectives with Ray Suarez."
- ↑ "Dr. Charles Hall Talks Oil on The Discovery Channel". State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 2010-09-02. "The Discovery Channel aired a four-part series, Powering the Future, to examine where our energy comes from and how we are striving to create a clean, limitless, secure supply to replace fossil fuels. Dr. Charles Hall was part of the program including some research he and his students were doing in Puerto Rico. The series was originally broadcast in July, 2010 on the Discovery Channel, repeated on the Science Channel and again on Planet Green."
- ↑ "Superstorm New York: What Really Happened". Media Update. 2012-11-14. "National Geographic Channel announced today the premiere of an in-depth documentary detailing Hurricane Sandy and its mammoth and merciless wake, which caused more than 110 fatalities in the U.S., and paralysed life for millions of people in more than a half-dozen states."
- ↑ Donnelly, Jeffrey P.; et al. (2001). "700 yr Sedimentary Record of Intense Hurricane Landfalls in Southern New England". Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 (6): 714–727. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0714:YSROIH>2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ "BBC invites viewers to predict the UK's future climate". 2006-02-14. "The BBC is to screen a major season of programmes on the science behind and issues surrounding the hottest topic of the day - climate change."
- ↑ "Climate Chaos - BBC documentary series". "David Attenborough's personal journey to discover the state of the planet leads a fortnight of programmes on climate change from the BBC."
- ↑ "Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear". 2006-06-01. "A US government whistleblower tells Panorama how scientific reports about global warming have been systematically changed and suppressed."
- ↑ "Keeping Britain Dry". 2007-08-03. "This early summer has been the wettest in England and Wales since records began more than 240 years ago."
- ↑ Presumably YouTube will eventually clear out all its copyright violation uploads and convert them all into pay per view movies like this.
- ↑ Hunter Lovins, William McDonough, Jeremy Rifkin and James Howard Kuntsler.
Interwiki links[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Category:Documentary films about environmental issues
- DocuWiki - a wiki of pages about documentaries
External links[edit | edit source]
- Search Facebook for: climate change documentaries - as of 20:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC) this finds only Web results, but some of them look interesting
- List of documentaries on the Subject of Climate Change & Global Warming
- 5 Best Global Warming Documentaries
- The Green Screen: Eco Documentaries - a list on IMDB
- http://www.filmsforaction.org/walloffilms/ - 750 documentaries, mostly political, but some that are environmental