Learning on ScreenPreserving the Legacy 1: Introduction to Environmental Technology (13 Parts)
- Subtitle
- Introduction to environmental technology
- Synopsis
- Looks at global environmental problems and solutions, giving examples from around the world of how committed professionals are turning textbook concepts and principles into real, viable action. Underscores the fundamental connections between the environment and the disciplines of economics, science and politics.
1: Reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. Introduces the concept of sustainability.
2: Looks at the role of population and the challenge of merging environmental and economic sustainability.
3: Provides a model for a study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.
4: Chemicals entering the environment can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented - one chronic and one acute.
5: Examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle and the food chain.
6: Explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.
7: Examines the environmental threats to the band of life-suporting oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.
8: Explores international ramifications of water-related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement of water.
9: Surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.
10: Depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.
11: Shows the world’s largest landfill coping with 13,000 tons of solid waste per day; studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.
12: Explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.
13: Introduces a trendsetting chain of factories in Denmark that sues waste from one industry as raw material for anothe (industrial symbiotics). Visits EcoVillage in Itheca, New York. - Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 x 30 min.
- Year of production
- 1999
- Availability
- Out OF Distribution; 2001 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) each part 2001 sale: £65.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) whole set
- Subjects
- Environmental science
- Keywords
- air; environmental issues; Environmental Protection Act; hazardous materials; occupational health; pollution; pollution by chemicals; population dynamics; recycling of waste; waste management; water
Sections
- Title
- Delicate balance - Part 1, The
- Synopsis
- 1: Reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. Introduces the concept of sustainability.
- Title
- Delicate balance - Part 2, The
- Synopsis
- 2: Looks at the role of population and the challenge of merging environmental and economic sustainability.
- Title
- Forces of law
- Synopsis
- 3: Provides a model for a study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.
- Title
- Health effects of hazardous materials
- Synopsis
- 4: Chemicals entering the environment can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented - one chronic and one acute.
- Title
- Ecology 1
- Synopsis
- 5: Examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle and the food chain.
- Title
- Paths of pollution
- Synopsis
- 6: Explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.
- Title
- Air 1
- Synopsis
- 7: Examines the environmental threats to the band of life-suporting oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.
- Title
- Water 1
- Synopsis
- 8: Explores international ramifications of water-related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement of water.
- Title
- Hazardous materials
- Synopsis
- 9: Surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.
- Title
- Occupational safety and health
- Synopsis
- 10: Depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.
- Title
- Waste - Part 1
- Synopsis
- 11: Shows the world's largest landfill coping with 13,000 tons of solid waste per day; studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.
- Title
- Waste - Part 2
- Synopsis
- 12: Explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.
- Title
- Sustaining earth
- Synopsis
- 13: Introduces a trendsetting chain of factories in Denmark that sues waste from one industry as raw material for anothe (industrial symbiotics). Visits EcoVillage in Itheca, New York.
Production Company
- Name
In-Tele-Com
Distributor
- Name
Resources in Training & Education Ltd
- Contact
- Donald Hill, Mark Brady
- admin@riteltd.net
- Web
- http://www.riteltd.net External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01749 689027
- Fax
- 01749 689027
- Address
- 26 Lower Chapel Court
South Horrington
Wells
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BA5 3DF - Notes
- Probably no longer in business (2009)
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