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  1. Science For Society

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    895
    NoS ID
    329136
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Some peaceful uses of atomic power at Harwell - solar heat pump and a plutonium powered pacemaker.

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  2. After Oil: What? (198 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Summarises the problem of falling reserves of oil and natural gas and describes alternatives: solar energy, wind and wave power, tidal power. geothermal energy. nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

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  3. Solar Mamas: Why Poverty? (2013)

    Director
    Mona Eldaief; Jehane Noujam
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies

    Are women better at getting out of poverty than men? This documentary, produced by the Why Poverty multimedia project, tells the story of Rafea, a middle-aged woman from a poor community, who is selected to...

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  4. Somerset, A Green and Pleasant ‘Energy Landscape’?

    Subject
    Energy; Environmental science

    Historian Jill Payne explores two sides of Somerset: the rural landscape that includes Exmoor National Park and the Quantock, Mendip and Blackdown Hills (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and yet also...

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  5. Sustainability in California (2008)

    Subject
    Architecture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 15 minutes)

    This programme focuses on the different ways of making sustainable buildings for the future in California. The greening of Google and the opening of the California Academy of Sciences also show us how...

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  6. Trees of Hope (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documents the rapid deforestation of Africa and analyses various solutions such as shifting to solar energy and improving traditional stores. Shot in Niger, Mali, Sengal and Nigeria, it shows how people are...

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  7. Diary of an Ecobuild (2006)

    Director
    Anne Gallagher
    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £30.00

    Charts the conversion of a terraced building in the Welsh Valleys into an environmentally friendly and energy self-sufficient building. Goes quite deeply, though in layman’s language, into this ecological...

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  8. Living with a Star: A New Encounter with Our Dynamic Sun (2005)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    A video recording of the BA Lord Kelvin Award Lecture 2005 given by Robert Walsh. The sun is vital for providing all the light, heat and energy required for life to have evolved on our planet. However, our...

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  9. Outlook on the eighties (1981)

    Genre
    Interview; Documentary

    Pete Reeves presents this edition of Piccadilly Radio’s Outlook on the Eighties, a series talking to international figures on the decade ahead. Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke talks about what he...

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  10. Photoelectric Effect, The (2004)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £35.00

    Explains the photoelectric effect and tells the story of its discovery, investigation and eventual explanation by Einstein, which brought about the revolutionary notion that light is a stream of photons, and...

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