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Intermediate Technology: Micro Hydro

Date released

1981

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

268

NoS ID

326072

Story no

3 / 3

COI synopsis: Our modern high tech society devours the landscape in an endless, thirsty quest for energy. The Intermediate Technology Group is determined that the developing world should not waste its...

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Change of Heart, A: English Architecture Since the War (1992 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

Illustrates the unsuspected wealth and range of archtecture and design created in England’s cities, towns and countryside since World War 2.

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Burston School Strike, The (1974 Film)

Director

Stephen Peet

Subject

Education; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1914 the children of Burston in Norfolk went on strike in protest against the sacking of their teachers Annie and Tom Higdon. The strike lasted 20 years. Mrs Higdon, head of the school, and Tom, her...

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People’s Communes, The (1973 Film)

Director

Felix Greene

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The commune system in China and how it works countrywide.

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Challenges of Urbanisation (2009)

aka: Challenges in Urbanisation: Inequality in Bangalore

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £45.00

An up-to-date, adaptable and engaging resource for the learning and teaching of development, poverty and inequalities. It takes Bangalore as a case study and looks at the causes and impacts of urban poverty,...

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Cheap Energy for Tomorrow Today (1993 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Discusses the potential of biomass as a renewable energy source. Describes the importance of fuel-efficient wood stoves in Kenya to complement the development of agro-forestry as a sustainable source of...

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Hidden Side of the Algarve, The (1993 Video)

Producer

Pip Surgey

Subject

Education; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the promotion of rural redevelopment in the hinterland of the Algarve. Concentrates on a largely EC-funded RADIAL project in Portugal, in which a team of educationalists based at the University of...

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Not a Legacy to Stand on (1987 Video)

Director

Tony Edwards

Producer

Ian Elvin

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min.

Examines the issues and conflicting pressures associated with the day-to-day management of an area of outstanding natural beauty. Focuses specifically on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park but...

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They Call Him Ah Kung (1975 Film)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ah Kung, like most of his schoolmates, will inherit the family farm. Yet he may choose to leave farming, attracted by industry and the urban life style. Ah Kung’s personal dilemma symbolises a national...

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Slaves of the River (1993 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £6.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the lives of landless Bangladeshis over the course of the annual monsoon, as they eke out a living on a tiny island situatied in the world’s largest river delta. They speak for themselves with...

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